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Source Control

CodeWarrior provides a Version Control System (VCS) menu that supports Perforce and other systems through plug-ins. Plug-ins can provide features that are very specific to the particular system, but are not tightly integrated into CodeWarrior itself.

Xcode takes a different approach. It currently supports three systems: the open source standard Concurrent Versions System (CVS), Subversion, and Perforce. Whichever system you choose, the Source Code Management (SCM) menu has the same commands. The number of supported commands is deliberately kept limited, but the commands are more tightly integrated into the environment. You’ll find the most commonly used source control commands, but no access is provided to more specific (and possibly obscure) commands that are supported only by a particular system. This allows for a cleaner integration; for example, status output is more usefully integrated into the user interface.

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