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Damianos Gkouzkouris (Senior Tools Engineer, Activision)
Location: Room 2016, West Hall
Date: Thursday, March 21
Time: 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Programming
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: All
Source control is one of the foundational elements in a software's lifecycle. Unfortunately, code merges and conflict resolution can be challenging, especially in a game development environment with numerous large files scattered across branches that must be kept in sync. This talk serves as a postmortem on a tool that emerged from our ongoing work to smoothly integrate Perforce changelists between streams, all while ensuring it doesn't disrupt our continuous development pipeline. The presentation will delve into the architecture of the tool, the challenges encountered while making it as hands-off as possible, the complexities involved in the file resolution process, which needed to be universally accessible, and a discussion of the compromises we had to make while developing and customizing the tool to suit our needs.
The main takeaway from this talk is the importance of implementing and efficiently maintaining a successful merging automation system. The in-depth analysis of techniques for scheduling, running, resolving, and notifying for integrations provides attendees with the tools to establish a robust implementation of such a system.
This talk is most useful for integration engineers who work on merges across Perforce branches and other source control tools. Automation engineers can also benefit from the interconnected merge system design. Additionally, anyone working with Perforce can gain a good understanding of how to simplify their integration pipeline.
