Does LabVIEW have any kind of source control?

[iCat]

I want to use a source control tool such as git and svn.

Does LabVIEW have such a tool?

[danil33]

Hi icat,

            Yes.See these: (Sorry as GerdW pointed out not embedded in.)

            https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-1681

            http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361D-01/lvhowto/configuring_scc/

[GerdW]

Hi iCat,

no, such a tool isn't embedded in LabVIEW.

But you're free to install your own. LabVIEW supports some of them off the shelf, see the options dialog for more information...

And NI provides a KB entry: here!

[Lewis_G]

Hey iCat,

I use Tortoise SVN.  It is very good and its free.

I use ProjectLocker to host my code.  They offer a free package for small projects.

[iCat]

Which one between git and svn should I use?

[GerdW]

It's your choice (and maybe personal preference)...

[MarcoMauri]

Hi!

I happily use Tortoise SVN.

There are a few issues when using source control with Labview.

Just a couple:

- vis contain also compiled code and so modifications (for example to a typedef) propagate to many files.

- it's not easy (with respect to text based languages) to compare different verisons of a file.

It's worth giving a look to this:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/LabVIEW-and-Version-Source-Code-Control-blog-series/td-p/1726752

Regards,

Marco

[iCat]

It seems that Tortoise SVN can do graphical diff & merge.

Is there any git software that can do graphical diff & merge?

[Norbert_B]

Any source code control provider supports graphical diff&merge as long as you can call LVCompare.exe and LVMerge.exe from the provider.

As i understand, you already managed to configure this for SVN.

I would expect git to have the same possiblity, but i'm sorry that i cannot tell you how...

Norbert 

[MarcoMauri]

Should be the same for GIT, if you use

TortoiseGit

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

I've never used it, so I'm not sure if it's as stable as TortoiseSVN....

Regards,

Marco