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Originally Posted by Ben Klebe
I've spent a few hours looking through a list of source control systems that integrate directly with LabVIEW. I've considered trying to get Perforce on board as a sponsor for a license or too, but was wondering if anyone has had success trying to get LabVIEW to work with GitHub or any other free source control providers.
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You can use Perforce for free, the only limitation is that you cannot have more than 20 users. Just remember though, that with a system like Perforce you need to have a dedicated server set up. With something like Google Code or Github you can store the repository on their servers.
Our team has been happy with Perforce, and we have it set up the second way that Greg proposed. We use the P4V GUI to manage our files with no plugins to LabVIEW itself, and we plug LVCompare and LVMerge to that tool. The compare and merge tools are a bit tedious to use however, so we make good use of the lock tool in Perforce, and we make sure students on our team don't manually set files to non-read only. One huge feature we missed this year is the P4Sandbox tool, which allows local & private branching. We were lucky that our regional had good WiFi in the pits, but I know a lot of events don't have this which makes it hard to use perforce at competition (at least without using P4Sandbox).
Whichever tool you do decide to use, make sure you spend a little time with anyone who will be contributing to the repository to train them on proper usage.