Vivado Project Version control

I've gotten a sample project that came with a development board working (more or less) and now I am going to start modifying it to suite my needs. I would like to get it under git version control.

[ working project ]
$ find xdmaGood/ -type f | wc -l
1806

[ File > Project > Save as... (no run files) ]
$ find xdmaSaveAs/ -type f | wc -l
1021

Should I now do "git init" on xdmaSaveAs, and then add files created during a build to .gitignore?

Or can the number of controlled files be pruned even further?

Other strategies for version control?

flyingbean over 1 year ago

Yes. You can do "git init" now and add files into .gitignore. I think not many FPGA folks using .gitignore very often. The version controlled files to be added into your GIT repo should be managed by you mostly. I personally did not trust Vivado tool generated TCL files. Adam Taylor could be a good source for FPGA designs. Here is one of his examples on FPGA git TCL script:

https://github.com/ATaylorCEngFIET/Vivado_Blocks/blob/master/mipi_pcam.tcl

Vivado GIT version control could have a big learning cure for some folks.

Good luck.
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ad0es over 1 year ago in reply to flyingbean

Hi,

I did the "save as" to get down to 1020 files. Then I did an init and initial commit. Going thru each of the steps of synthesis, implementation, bistream, etc., each time doing status, add and commit. Things that I don't expect to control I placed as text into a top level .gitignore file, commented out. It appears that it will work out well.
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