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1. #Tortoisehg workbench link project to repository how to#
2. #Tortoisehg workbench link project to repository update#

01:24 Letting toolkit configure LVCompare and LVMerge.00:51 Getting Viewpoint Systems SVN Toolkit.This ends with team members not committing often enough. One of the drawbacks I see is that team members tend to withhold committing changes because they don’t want to commit broken code. Subversion is a centralized source code control tool, which means all the developers commit their changes to that central version of the code. I recommend this SCC tool for single developers. SVN is even taught during the Managing Software Engineering in LabVIEW class and there are exercises in the Software Engineering Technical Manual. The LabVIEW community mainly uses Subversion with the TortoiseSVN client and the LabVIEW Tools Network addon from Viewpoint systems. (that is of course provided that you do have a repository/backup offsite and that you make sure that you backup your repositories often). You will not lose your code due to an alien invasion that targets your hard disk and makes it explode….You will be able to go back to a previous version.You will be able to tell what changed from version to version.

Source Code Control and the path to happiness: It is almost as good as ice cream, cheese or chocolate. So why am I so passionate about Source Code Control? Well, it has saved me time, money and I just cannot imagine my professional live without it. If it is going to take him more than an hour of his time, it gets a repo created. He assures me that now he starts a repository no matter how small the project is. Anyway, after being mean for just a little bit I did help him to recover his project employing some XML magic. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to lose 6 hours of my life. He did not want to tell me, but he finally did: “well, I was not using SCC, because it was a small project… “, I then asked him how long he had been working on this small project, the reply: more than 6 hours.

#Tortoisehg workbench link project to repository update#

I told him, well just go and update to the previous version you committed and you should be good. A couple of months ago he asked me to help him recover a LabVIEW project that was corrupt. Even my poor husband has started to use SCC.

I no longer hear the “but I work by myself” argument.

#Tortoisehg workbench link project to repository how to#

I am happy to report that the number has been steadily growing and now people approach me asking more about how to do it rather than why to do it. Over the years, I have asked how many LabVIEW developers were using Source Code Control at the beginning of several of my presentations. If you watch the video you will hear how a fellow at the front row laughed so hard that I knew I stroke a chord with that one. I have to thank Steve Watts for that last line: “Good programming practices have nothing to do with marital status”.