Plastic SCM DevOps: Custom mergebots
We designed our DevOps ecosystem for Plastic SCM with versatility in mind. All functionality is provided by separate pieces of software, each one with a specific purpose: plugs to perform actions and...
View ArticleCheckin with reviewers in mind: how to speed up code reviews
Pull requests are broken. Ever experienced that? Take a branch with only 3 small changes and it will get a whole lot of comments and suggestions. Take one with +100 changed files and it will get...
View ArticleAll the software we write
Códice has been around since 2005, when we decided we wanted to create a better version control system. Since then, we have created Plastic SCM, a solid version control system that many teams of all...
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Unified diff of a branch
You can extend the actions available for branches (and many other objects) by using the external tools feature.This blogpost explains how to create a custom action to run a unified diff operation for a...
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Plastic SCM vs Git - 2018 edition
(This blogpost was originally published at Medium.)I don't know about you but I've always enjoyed a good David and Goliath story. There's something about the heroic underdog standing their ground...
View ArticleMerge Conflicts illness? Hire a botctor to diagnose them!
Do you suffer from the occasional illness of "Ouch! The changes I did few days ago were rejected because of merge conflicts?" On a scale of 0 to 10, how annoyed are you when you have to go back to that...
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Introducing the new mascot for Plastic SCM
We are happy to announce we have a new mascot!A clever owl that represents a wise librarian. As version control developers, we love the idea of Plastic being the librarian of your projects, and a wise...
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CyberFlex - Jira, TeamCity and Plastic integration
CyberFlex Software is an Australian software company that has been developing software for the Heavy Glass, Automotive and Transport industries since 2001.We've been using Plastic SCM for around 10...
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Fully automated Plastic SCM setup on a Raspberry Pi
Today, I bring to you a blogpost that is long overdue. If you are a DIY enthusiast like me, you probably have a bunch of Raspberry Pi's lying around. Who knows, maybe Santa (or the Three Wise Men, or...
View ArticleGuiTestSharp: Multiplatform GUI Testing with dotnet
We are happy to announce the release of GuiTestSharp, an open source GUI-test framework used to automate the testing of desktop apps written in C# on Windows, Linux and macOS.As far as we know, it...
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Plastic SCM January releases: Plastic 8 is out!
Wait... What? Is that Octocat?Is Plastic SCM version 8 a new GitHub product? No!! This is our small homage to our dear colleagues at GitHub.Plastic SCM version 8 is out and we wanted to play around...
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How important is Product Support for you?
We take pride in many things: delivering an innovative product and changing the version control landscape one task at a time is one of them, for example; keeping together the same team since day one;...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Interviews: DevOps, bikes and what happened with version...
Michael Coté, host of some of the best podcasts on Digital Transformation, Cloud-based software development and other topics, interviewed Pablo Santos, founder and CTO of Plastic SCM. The conversation...
View ArticleRecent upgrades in Plastic's command line client
Command line updates in PlasticAt Plastic, we strive to deliver the most bleeding edge version control technology across the multiple packages we maintain. That means anyone using Plastic in any...
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multi-instance: a fault tolerant on-premise server
Over the last four months, part of the team was quite busy working on an evolution for the Plastic server.We wanted to provide Enterprise Edition customers with a fault-tolerant, zero-downtime server...
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Split merge conflicts blocks
One of the most frequent questions we receive about Xmerge, Plastic SCMs built-in mergetool, is why the following merge scenario does not automatically resolve:Read more »
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Connect Unity Cloud Build to Plastic Cloud
This blog post explains how to build your Unity project stored inside a Plastic Cloud Edition repository.Unity Cloud Build does not provide native support to download code from Plastic, but it is...
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How to move your on-premise repos to Plastic Cloud
Do you need to move your on-premise repositories to Plastic Cloud? This may happen if you run a Team Edition server in your office and want to go to Cloud Edition or simply backup your repos to a Cloud...
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From Scrum to Kanban—how we cut task cycle time by half
We reduced the average time each task took from the Open stage to the Released stage from 7.52 days to 3.66 by moving from Scrum to Kanban.Here is how we achieved it.Of course, don't expect silver...
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DevOps: what it takes to be elite
What does an elite software development organization look like in 2019?We all would like to rank our practices to figure out where we are compared to other similar organizations. But it is not that...
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