Perforce eclipse plugin: difference between "get latest revision" and "synchronize with depot"

Question

I have a question about the Perforce Eclipse plugin, under project(right click)> team, there have "get lastest revision" and "synchronize with depot", what is the difference between the two of them?

Answer 1

Get latest revision fetches a newer copy of the file from Perforce, if a newer version is available.

Synchronize with depot shows you a preview of anything new from Perforce that you could bring into your project. It's a useful preview of what Get latest revision would actually do.

There's also Check consistency which shows you anything modified locally that Perforce doesn't know about, kind of like a status command.

I agree that the terms are confusing, but I think these are Eclipse standards to some extent. Synchronize with depot opens up Eclipse's Synchronize view for example.