Best Version Control for Unity

Yes, I know there is no the best tool, etc. All I want is your advice. Here are my situation and questions:

• I want to choose between Git and Perforce.
• I heard that Perforce is an industry standard but some people on forums say they hate it. Why is that so?
• I heard that Perforce is much harder to work with when it comes to branches. Is it that horrible?
• Some people say that Git is not ready for studios despite some of its pros. Is that right as for now?
• Has something changed as for now with these two tools?

All info I found was from 2 or more years ago so I want to check if something has changed since then.

 

Hi, did you find the answer? Can you share your thoughts? We are also looking for the best solution with unity. Thanks

 

Git. I use this professionally within my company, and I use it personally. It's good for business, it's good for opensource. Merging is a breeze, and getting help is easy. It is very rare to bump into someone using Perforce. I recommend starting with a client like git-fork. I haven't used Perforce myself but I see no reason to use anything other than Git, it's perfect.

 

The problem with unity and source control is that you want to store not only source but also all those GB of assets.

We used Git in our 5 years project. We had to partition it into multiple git projects in order to push it all onto the server.

 

This is why git-lfs was made. LFS stands for Large File Storage. It puts all your binaries on a separate FTP server and only diffs the links in the git history. LFS is a MUST when using git with unity.
There are plenty of different ways to install LFS depending on your git client, but here's a cli tutorial:
https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Tutorial

 

You talking about remote storage though right? I made a git repository for my game that's over 2GB right now and tried to push it to bitbucket but failed because there limit is 1GB. I think if your keeping your repository local you can just use git.

 

LFS pushes to a separate FTP server which is usually at Bitbucket or Github. They both have limits on how much space you have on your free account. There is probably a way to setup git to use your own FTP server, but i haven't looked into it.