SafeSave: Source Control Traffic Light (Git / Perforce) (Released)

Hi there, just released this tool here. It addresses a longtime pain point for so many of us. It’s my 1st release on Fab, don’t go hard on it please. :shushing_face: Thanks.

Stop screaming, 'Who locked the map?!' SafeSave adds a real-time Traffic Light to your toolbar that warns you of conflicts before you save.

Feature List:

  • Blue Light: "Auto-detects when teammates push updates."

  • Red Light: "Prevents merge conflicts with a Safe-Update protocol."

  • No Jargon: "Replaces command lines with simple 'Push/Pull' buttons."

Documentation & Guide: SafeSave @ GitBook

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Hey! This tool looks like something that we were looking for! Could you tell me whether you tried to launch it on 5.5? I can see that in compatibility section you stated that it works only with 5.7 but I wonder whether this is out of the scope or you simply haven’t tested it there :slight_smile:

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Hey there, thanks for your interest. In fact I first submitted it as 5.5 plugin, but Fab told me that it needs to be a 5.7 plugin to show up. So I went back, an now it’s basically fully compatible with 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7.

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FWIW, this is free.

The launcher unfortunately won’t allow users to download the plugin unless we have 5.7 installed currently. I haven’t published anything to fab yet, but it should be possible to mark it as compatible with multiple engine versions. I have 5.3, 5.5, and 5.6 installed and I see this when I try to download the plugin:

Personally I haven’t really had many issues with merge conflicts so far when working with a small team through perforce, but I would like to have this plugin for is to have a ‘sync all’ button in the editor. I’m not sure why there isn’t already one natively. The editor seems to track which files need to be updated, but forces you to navigate to the individual assets in the content browser and right click each one to sync, only offering you a multi-file sync option if the first asset you sync has dependencies that are also out of date.

The alternative is to close the entire editor, sync all, and re-open, which slows my workflow unnecessarily since the editor has built-in features for syncing files at runtime.

Also, the github issues link you provided seems to be set to private as it just displays as a 404 page for me.

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Hi there, thanks for the message. I first submitted as a 5.5 plugin specifically, but Fab said that it needs to be a 5.7 plugin.
Edit: I submitted a 5.6 version today, hopefully it’ll go live soon.

GitHub link was on private for some reason indeed, fixed now.

Thank you, Andras

Done.

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You’ll also want a 5.5 version of this, 5.6 is still considered pretty new.

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