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16 years ago

Source-code control Poll

Hi all,

I wanted to conduct a poll to see what people are using for a source-code control system for their FPGA development. This has become a hot-topic in my organization as we are finding certain systems to be more or less efficient when using the FPGA development tools.

The forum does not have explicit functionality to support conducting a poll. So, what I've done is attached 4 files to this post. Click on one of the files below to cast your vote. Then we can use the number of views to count the number of votes.

The choices are:

1 - CVS

2 - SVN

3 - ClearCase

4 - Other

5 - Git

Feel free to post your comments here as well if you have strong feelings regarding a particular tool set.

Thanks,

Jake

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    16 years ago

    Hi Jake,

    I would suggest adding "git" to the poll. "git" is spreading widely in opensource community, such as linux,glibc,busybox etc.

    There are git bridges/converter to svn and cvs. The best point is that it is compact and fast.

    Cheers,

    Hippo
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    16 years ago

    I've added "git". Although I must admit I've never actually heard of it being used in a corporate environment.

    Thanks Hippo,

    Jake
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    16 years ago

    I'm using subversion. We are already using it for the software and documentation, it seemed natural to use it for the FPGA projects too.

    Unfortunately I find that Quartus projects are a real nightmare to place under source control. I've created a 'Design" folder for the VHDL files, an 'output' folder for the generated files, but SOPC builder insists on putting all its generated files in the project folder and it makes it difficult to know what should be put under control and what shouldn't...
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    16 years ago

    How do you manage to place Quartus output files in the 'output' folder? Did I miss a Quartus feature in this regard or are they copied manually? Compared to the structured directory concept of usual software tools, Quartus looks rather rusty.

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    16 years ago

    Go to the project settings, "Compilations Process Settings", and near the bottom of the window "save project output files in specified directory"

    But you need to set it up for each project, and as I said Quartus still put some files in the project directory instead of the one you specify there, especially when you use SOPC builder.

    It's still nice to have the sof/pof and various reports files out of the way, though.
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    16 years ago

    I always put SoPC builder in a seperate folder.

    So my tree looks something like this: 

    altera - Quartus project files
src - My source code, folder structure typically mirrors project hierarchy.
   |___ sopc - This is where I generate SoPC builder.
   |___ mysource1
   |___ mysource2
sim - Modelsim files
src_tb - Testbench source files
doc - documents

    The way to accomplish getting SoPC builder in a folder other than the Quartus project folder is to launch it using the MegaWizard plug-in manager instead of launching directly from the "tools" menu or the SoPC builder icon on the Quartus toolbar. Using the MegaWizard plug-in manager you can specify where you want it located.

    Jake
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    16 years ago

    We use SVN, CVS seemed outdated and we didn't have the moxie to go with git.

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    16 years ago

    git is distributed, while svn and cvs are centralized.

    We setup a "public" git to share. Each individual has his own copy of git, with public and local branches. We work on local branches, and share what we want to share via the public git server.

    I used CVS in the early days, then switched SVN. Now I am very happy with git. With gui frontend (git gui), I think it is much easier than CVS and SVN.

    Another good point, git doesn't create .svn or CVS in every subdirectory. It looks much cleaner.

    http://git-scm.com/

    - Hippo
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    16 years ago

    We use "Perforce" at my company. This goes for RTL/Verif/Documentation. Perforce

    allows access to both windows and linux env.