Gluon
Gluon is a tool designed for users who typically work on a single branch with files that can't be merged (typically, binary files such as images, animations, or documents). These users usually lock file access to coordinate teamwork collaboration. Repositories are normally huge and include very large binary files. A typical Gluon user is an artist involved with game development teams. However, the tool is not restricted to only game teams.
Gluon might be helpful in the following scenarios:
- As a user, you want to select the files to work on, make changes, and quickly submit them. You don’t want to merge or branch files, you want those functions to happen in the background.
- As a user, you want to lock files so nobody can work on them simultaneously to you.
- As a user, you don't want to be forced to download a file repository that contains lots of huge files to access the one or two files that you need to work on. You want to select only the files you want to work on and download those.
| Topic | Description |
|---|---|
| Configure Gluon | Connect your Gluon application to a server so that you can access your repositories. |
| Gluon workspaces | Use Gluon to view differences in images graphically. |
| Manage changesets | Learn to manage changesets from the Changesets tab in Gluon. |
| View local changes | On the Checkin changes tab, view all the changes that you've made to files locally. |
| Work in version control | Use Gluon to make changes, compare files, and save changes to your serverl. |
| Undo or revert changes | Use Gluon to undo changes and deletions, or revert to a previous revision. |