
The VCS file status in the panel is indicated through a series of icons that relate to specific file conditions detected by the version control system. The Projects panel displays all projects that are currently open in Altium Designer, along with their constituent documents and the associated Version Control status for each file. The panels can be opened from the button menu at the bottom right of the workspace, or from the main View » Panels menu. The panels are populated with project documents and their related VCS status when opened in Altium Designer. In Altium Designer, VCS-related actions can be performed through the Projects and Storage Manager panels, with the latter providing direct access to additional VCS commands and information. ► See VCS Repositories for more information on creating and connecting to SVN repositories. If you are working with Projects hosted by an Altium Server, as outlined in the Version Control and Altium 365 section below, ensure that you are signed in to the host server.This integrates with the schematic and PCB comparison features, making it easy to quickly compare and identify differences between two revisions of a schematic or PCB document, and for PCB designs, resolving concurrent revision conflicts. Because it has internal support for these systems, it provides access to the common SVN/Git file handling commands such as Commit, Update, etc within Altium Designer, along with additional Subversion capabilities such as the ability to create a SVN repository. Altium Designer supports the Subversion (SVN) and Git version control systems (VCS).
