Question

What concepts etc in perforce are different from svn in ways that are likely to give me problems?

(I am not interested in witch is best, as it not for me to decide what system my new employer uses)

Answer 1

Few points which comes to my mind

• svn maintains a copy in its .svn (hence a little slower) to do local operations like svn st, info, etc. but perforce would require a connecion to the server for every operation.
• svn checkout is not the same in perforce. You might have to define a workspace and view to do a checkout.
• You need to tell perforce that you are going to edit a file before editing it.
• Do not edit any perforce file without network(connection to p4 server) your server might not recognize these changes when you try to commit it.
• Perforce has better merge/branching capabilities.
• You can have only one workspace in your perforce which is different from having multiple working copy in svn.