Quartus II Source control/ version control

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, 

I am primarily a software engineer beginning to work on Quartus II for Cyclone II. What kind of version control tools are available for design files? I am familiar with Tortoise SVN. Is there a similar tool? The sources are managed by different developers.

[Altera_Forum]

Quartus doesn't have built-in source control integration. Use an external tool. Subversion works fine. 

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/version_control

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Quartus doesn't have built-in source control integration. Use an external tool. Subversion works fine. http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/version_control  --- Quote End ---    Thank you very much Ted. I am not quite sure if I have to check in the folders "db" and "incremental db". Do you have any suggestions?

[Altera_Forum]

--- Quote Start ---  Thank you very much Ted. I am not quite sure if I have to check in the folders "db" and "incremental db". Do you have any suggestions?  --- Quote End ---    The files in them are used by Quartus to speed up compilation, as they are pre-compiled versions of pieces of your design. If you don't change pieces of the design, Quartus won't repeat the compilation process of those elements and use the files in there.  I don't personally check those folders into my repository and just keep them in my local working copy. I try and keep my repo clean of most of the Quartus-generated files, otherwise the repo gets very large and slow. However, my situation is possibly unique since I am the only developer and I am the only one compiling. YMMV.  Also, sometimes I find if I get weird compilation errors (errors not relating to changes I've made, or to IP internals) I just delete those folders and do a "fresh" compile. Worked every time so far.  Hope that helps.  -Dan  EDIT: for what it's worth I am using Git/Tortoise Git to manage my version control

[Maximillia_G_Intel]

Here's the updated link to the Intel FPGA wiki.

https://fpgawiki.intel.com/wiki/Version_Control