Configure and manage Plastic SCM

Administrator’s guide

Covers everything about configuring the server, installing, setup locks if needed, doing backups, archiving revisions, config files, and licenses.

Security guide

Learn how to perform basic security actions. This guide is full of examples that you can use to solve specific cases.

Gluon

Version control for non-developers. If you need to work on a single branch with locks, use this guide.

Triggers

This guide explains how you can customize Plastic's behavior. For example, learn how to enforce policies like ensuring branches follow a given naming convention.

Cloud extension

Learn how to add a Cloud extension to your Enterprise Edition. Find out how our Cloud service works.

Cloud Edition

Learn how to use Plastic Cloud Edition—the hosted version control solution.

cm find

Find out how Plastic can query branches, changesets, and other types of objects using "cm find."

Command line

Learn how to use the command line to perform common operations.

Xlinks

Learn how to do component-oriented development with Xlinks.

GitServer

Explains how to set up a Plastic SCM server so that Git clients think it is a Git server.

GitSync

Explains how to use Plastic as a Git client and push/pull to GitHub or any other Git service.

Plastic for Git users

If you're a Git user, find out what stays and what changes if you move from Git to Plastic.

Graphical user interface

A reference of the features in the GUIs.

Task and issue trackers

Learn to configure Plastic to interact with issue trackers like Jira and Polarion. in addition, this guide includes how to create your own integrations with issue tracking systems.

External parsers

How to develop support for new languages for the Plastic semantic features.

Distributed version control

Find out how user authentication works across servers.

DevOps driven by mergebots:

mergebot: the story of our DevOps initiative

Explains what mergebots are and how they can help you implement DevOps.

Add a mergebot to your repo

A practical example and tour through a working DevOps implementation driven by a mergebot.

Configure mergebots using config files

Explains how to manually configure mergebots without WebAdmin assistance.

Plastic SCM DevOps: Custom plugs

Explains how to develop plugs: the connectors between mergebots and systems such as Slack, email, etc.

Plastic SCM DevOps: Custom mergebots

Explains how to develop your own bots.

DevOps driven by the CI system:

A DevOps Primer

An explanation of DevOps and how it is implemented with Plastic.

DevOps with Bamboo and Plastic

This guide contains a practical example explaining how to implement a DevOps cycle with Plastic and Bamboo.

DevOps with Bamboo: connecting to Jira

This guide expands on the previous example and explains how to take advantage of the extra info provided by the issue tracker.

DevOps with TeamCity

An alternative implementation of DevOps, this time using JetBrains' TeamCity CI system.

Plastic SCM vs. Git

How Plastic compares to Git.

All the software we write

If you want to learn more about the work we do and the software we develop.

The story of Jet

Plastic’s super-fast repo storage. Find out why we use Jet as the default storage and why it is faster than the other alternatives.

CyberFlex - Jira, TeamCity, and Plastic integration

CyberFlex, one of our customers, share their CI implementation.

Track refactored code across files with Plastic SCM

It explains some of the semantic features in Plastic SCM.

Using history to better explain branch differences

Delves into how Plastic enriches diffs with info from the file history.

The history of version control

How version controls have evolved through the years.

Diff math

This blog explains some uncommon facts of very common diffs.

REST API

Client-side REST API reference guide.

Server REST API

Server-side REST API reference guide. An easy way to automate Plastic.

CmdRunner

A C# library that automates the Plastic command line.