Which Tortoise SVN plug IN to use?

[cynt]

Hi,

I am using "Visual source safe control" since many year as a source code
control. Now, my company switch to SVN server for source code control.

I would like to know if you could suggest me a plug in that will be compatible
for tortoise svn and Labview.

I would like to have the same feature that I had with Visual Source Safe:
- see that a another personn have reserved a VI in labview
- checkin in/ out direcly in labview
-...
I look at JKI but it did not seem to offer theses features.

Does pusk ok or another software provide the same feature than Visual Source
safe?

Can you help me ?

Thanks in advance

Cynthia

[Mark_Yedinak]

SVN works quite well. Here are instructions for configuring LabVIEW to use SVN. We have been using it for years. I also installed the Tortoise SVN on my computer so it works with the Windows File Explorer also.

I recommend that you make sure you separate the compiled code from the source code. It makes life much easier from a source code control perspective when working with LabVIEW.

[cynt]

thanks for your response!

But I have already read this thread. And it says to install JKI as plug inn. I did not really like this plug in. I could not see if another member of my team wore working on a vi. I really need this option to see witch vi is check in or check out in my project. We program in a team.

I was wondering if a new plug in was existing or if pusk ok or JKI have now improve with labview 2012...

Someone has a answer?

[Mark_Yedinak]

If you simply install TortoiseSVN and use Windows Explore you can lock/unlock items within the repository. This will prevent anyone else from modifying that code. When using SVN you do not need to check code in and out all of teh time. You generally do this once. Then use the lock feature to prevent others from modifying the code. It is possible that the Windows Explorer may not update the icon for the item to show it it locked but others will not be able to commit any of there changes until the lock is released.

[Darin.K]

No personal experience with this one, but you can check it out.

http://www.viewpointusa.com/prod_tsvn.php

[cynt]

It seem very interresting...

Someone tried it?

[Dennis_Knutson]

I've been using svn for a few years now (also switched from source safe) and it's only been a few times that I've missed the more complete integration. I saw this post about issues with PushOK and 64-bit LabVIEW so that is something to keep in mind.

[dkfire]

The tsvn plug-in has a nice right-click feature for the project explorer.

But also this has no way of showing you in the project explorer wich files are lock or cheched out by others. 

In svn you really don't check out any files as in Clear Case or VSS, you can lock files, but you don't check them out.

Once you have made a working copy of a repository, any developer can still edit the files in the repository, unless you manually lock the files.

Both JKI and tsvn are missing the overlay on the icons for the files in the project explorer.

[EDIT]: Can see that they reenabled the icon overlay. Maybe it's time to update.

[cynt]

And Push ok?

[tst]

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@cynt wrote:

It seem very interresting...

Someone tried it?

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Do a search on the LAVA forums. There were a couple of people who had good things to say about it.