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Cara Canellas

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Aug 3, 2024, 10:57:12 AM8/3/24

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Altium has built in support for Subversion but we do have a need for version control at multiple sites.WANdisco can synchronize multiple SVN repositories but it is expensive.Has anyone used Altium with Git?If so, how?

I recently got this working. I'm using a private repo on github, so I unfortunately can't show proof. But here is how to do it, I hope this helps others as it took me a few hours to figure it out. Note, there should be nothing special about using github, they are probably using the git-svn as Paul mentioned.

I'm using the 'built in version' of SVN under Altium Version Control preferences. I do have tortoise svn installed, although that's just so I can use some of the GUI features. (I'm using tortoise 1.8.5, which seems to work fine with github).

Here is the thing that got me stuck... For SVN to work, you CAN NOT have an empty repo, you have to have at least one commit. So assuming you are on github, start a repo, and then follow the instructions they give. (just so the repo is not empty):

Eric Anderson, good question! I am sorry to say that there is only support for SVN and CVS as you were aware. I have not heard of any future plans for the other storage/version control software packages. The only thing that comes to mind is to use the built in SVN and in the "working directory" try adding that to Git (or others) and do the commits/updates external from Altium.

Clicking the Clone Now link below should open GitHub Desktop and take you to the clone repository window. If it does not, you can access it from File -> Clone Repository and enter issus/altium-library for the url.

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