Question Can I use a git client instead of Plastic to sync to plastic cloud?

I have found the plastic tools very unreliable and time consuming compared to git. It seems like almost every operation i do requires a lot of babysitting and undoing to get it to go through...

Is there a way to sync the plastic cloud repo locally to improve speed and reliability?

Is there a way to use a git client to access a plastic repo?

 

I'm using plastic desktop point to the cloud. I am using the GUI desktop app (not the unity plugin) i have found it to be very unintuitive. I mean its not that the UI is bad but when you execute an action it often doesn't work or only half works so then you get stuck in a indeterminate state where things are broken and it takes a lot of time to recover from. Merging is especially problematic. I think that if i can switch to the distributed then recover from problems will be much faster, as it its im really spending too much time struggling with it.

I dont think gluon is the right workflow for me, but i will try the proxy server to see if the number of failed merges and check-ins goes down.

 

on this page it shows screenshot of the preferences panel and you need to enable proxy server on the general tab. But my preference panel doesn't show the general tab.

https://docs.plasticscm.com/adminis...rol-administrator-guide#Configuringtheclients




how to i get to the general tab.

 

So the documentation is wrong on this topic. I was able to contact technical support and they gave an alternative way to get to get to the general tab. Hopefully they fix the documentation. (bascially to add a proxy server you need to do it through the login screen instead of the settings menu) Adding the cache server to the mix seems to be improving speed on certain operations, but other still fail silently or break and then get stuck in between steps.

 

No, Plastic Cloud is a proprietary solution and can only be synced with the Plastic SCM client. It is not possible to use a Git client for syncing with Plastic Cloud.