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Re: Why you should care about version control, and why I suggest git

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Originally Posted by spartango View Post
FYI none of these version control systems need an internet connection. That just allows you to stay synchronized with your team.

I should point out that NI has good merge and diff tools for labview if you are using that.
NI does indeed have good merge and diff tools, but they are not available to FIRST teams. The merge and diff tools are only included in the Professional Development version (The most expensive one), which teams will not be receiving (correct me if I'm wrong). Also, LabVIEW's diff tool is only available with LabVIEW 2009 (AKA version 9.0), while teams will be getting version 8.x (8.6 I believe). There is however a tool called LVDiff, but I couldn't get it to work with Mercurial (I suspect this is because LabVIEW can't compare two VIs with the same name).