Git Tools For Helix Core

What Are the Perforce Git Tools?

Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub Help You Scale Git

You have development teams working on a Git project (or multiple Git projects). But Git doesn't scale to solve complex development challenges. This leads to slowdowns. And, using Git makes it difficult to get every team on the same page.

Perforce Git tools allow your Git developers to work on code in Git. At the same time, you’ll leverage the performance, scalability, and single source of truth of an enterprise version control system. 

You need better Git solutions. When you use Helix4Git (and/or Helix TeamHub) with Helix Core, you can maintain a single source of truth across development teams. This is especially important if you’re working with open source or third party development teams. 

How It Works

1. Developers use Git as they would normally — with any Git code hosting solution.
2. They can commit changes, then collaborate and do code reviews in Helix TeamHub (or GitLab/GitHub/Bitbucket).
3. Git code (from Helix4Git) gets combined with all your other digital assets (from Helix Core) into your preferred build runner.

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Achieve 40–80% Faster Builds

Native Git slows down the build process. The longer it takes, the longer the overall build/test process is. And that brings developer productivity to a halt.

Helix4Git streamlines your build process. Developers get faster feedback, so they can build, test, and move on to the next task faster. That’s because you can store your Git code, large binary files, and other digital assets in the Perforce server. And you can retrieve them 40–80% faster than you would with native Git alone. 

Push and Pull Code Without Delays

Pulling down a repo and pushing new code takes too long in traditional Git development. Especially when teams are distributed around world. Remote teams often wait hours just to get started on their work. 

Helix4Git solves these challenges, so you can push and pull code without the WAN wait. That’s because you can manage your Git repos in a single source of truth. So, everyone will be working on the same codebase, using the latest version. And remote teams will be able to work together more efficiently, as if they’re in the same room.

Keep All Your Repos in One Project

Including Git, SVN, and Mercurial

Many large projects today have multiple repositories — often 100s to 1000s of repositories — and dependencies. Most will also have non-source code elements. This includes binary artifacts, artwork, audio, and video files. And there will also be a lot of users and groups to manage. Trying to manage everything in native Git is a struggle, and often involves scripting and add-on tools. 

Helix TeamHub brings multiple repositories into your pipeline. That’s because it’s designed to work and manage thousands of users, groups, and repos. Using Helix TeamHub lets teams work on very large projects in Git — and scale.

Manage Large Binary Files

Git was never designed to handle large binary files. It has limits on the size of repositories. And because your repository grows with every commit, it’s easy to exceed the limit. Trying to manage large binary files in Git drains server and client resources. So, when you’re working with large files, there are slowdowns. 

Helix Core is built to handle large files — and especially large binary files. Using Helix4Git with Helix Core allows you to leverage this performance for large binary files and use Git source code in the pipeline. 

Who Uses Perforce Git Tools?

See Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub in action. Watch a recorded demo. 

Add a Git code review and a Git repository management tool. It’s free for up to 5 users.