Comment by bc1000003

Confirmed. Perforce is (was?) the industry standard for most larger game teams. If you've been in the business for any length of time you're probably pretty familiar with it and all of its many warts. But Perforce does get the job done and it's reliable and stable.

However combining some of the flexibility and workflows of git with the ability to deal more efficiently and effectively with large asset files is something that a hell of a lot game engineers would be interested in. And having the virtual checkout as a feature out of the box for folks used to half terabyte repo sizes is definitely a huge plus.

This announcement is definitely a big deal, and if the promises for lore actually measure up, we could be seeing the beginning of a switch over to open source version control for larger asset heavy games where git was still not a great fit.

Will be interesting to see what the public code hosting platforms do (github), and whether there will be any major structural changes to git (I'm thinking not likely). I wonder if Epic will make a play to take business away from github or gitlabs.