[New Feature] Improved LVCompare functionality for git

[Christina_R]

LVCompare now takes relative paths as parameters and can be used as the diff tool for git.

[sth]

I am going to guess that this Compare functionality does not work for target specific code.  Thus a project that has code for RT or for FPGA will fail the Compare since it will try to launch one (or both?) copies in a non-project environment as just a My Computer target.

I can't test this since there is no LV21 RT or LV 21 FPGA betas.  BUT, if so, this still makes the LVCompare function not suitable for git on any complex project.

[Christina_R]

---

@sth wrote:

I am going to guess that this Compare functionality does not work for target specific code.  Thus a project that has code for RT or for FPGA will fail the Compare since it will try to launch one (or both?) copies in a non-project environment as just a My Computer target.

I can't test this since there is no LV21 RT or LV 21 FPGA betas.  BUT, if so, this still makes the LVCompare function not suitable for git on any complex project.

---

Unfortunately, you are correct that we haven't solved the problems when diffing target specific code. We are, however, aware that this is a shortcoming and hope to address it in a future version.

[sth]

---

@Christina_R wrote:

---

Unfortunately, you are correct that we haven't solved the problems when diffing target specific code. We are, however, aware that this is a shortcoming and hope to address it in a future version.

---

I'll be patient, but it has made git (and SCC in general) a lot less useful.  We had a long discussion on this with the Champions about a year ago.