Help with project cleanup

[altenbach]

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@bemoore wrote:

Using dependencies... does this also imply that every vi that shows up in dependencies should be added to a project virtual folder?

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Don't add any dependencies that are part of LabVIEW (e.g. vi lib). Personally, I prefer to add all dependencies that I wrote myself, but it is not absolutely necessary.

You are really dealing with two different problems: (1) cleaning up the project, (2) cleaning up the local folders.

[bemoore]

I discovered this going through items one-by-one. I'd find, say, a control with enum entries that apply to a different project. But it has a caller. And that caller has a caller. But the 3rd level up... no more callers. That REALLY makes the one-by-one cleanup process painfully slow.

[bemoore]

I found 3 vi's in dependencies that were from a LabVIEW example. I added them to the project. I copied them to a local folder. Then I did a "Replace with..." in the project, replacing the links to the example vi's with links to local vi's.

I'm trying to clean up the project and folders. A few of the project folders were snapshot populated. I was able to remove entire virtual and physical folders in a few cases. A few of them bit me, though, when the top level vi failed to open. So then I'd have to undo some of my steps. I came here to find a better way.

[crossrulz]

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@bemoore wrote:

Source control... I'm the only LabVIEW programmer in the building. There are probably a few more in the company somewhere, but they have nothing to do with this project. I'm not I could convince anyone to implement source control for this.

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It doesn't matter if you have to share the code. I am also a lone developer, but everything is in Git. This has saved me many many times as it allows descriptive snapshots of where things were, what changed, etc. And if I mess something up, I can just do a revert and I am back to a known state. That is the point of SCC. I would recommend just using whatever SCC your other software developers are using, which is how I was forced to start using Git instead of SVN (no regrets in that regard).

[BertMcMahan]

I've used Git and SVN, and I can say that the best option is the one you actually use 🙂 I wouldn't overthink deciding between the two. If all else is equal, I'd recommend Git, but honestly it took a LONG time of using SCC at all before I had a preference as to which one to use, especially if you're a solo dev.