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I have been using Git / Bitbucket to manage versioning for Altium and MPLAB and have recently started using IAR for the STM8 series MCUs for a series of projects. Is there any Git integration to IAR Embedded Workbench or will this be a more manual / external process of versioning? I see that SVN is supported, but am not interested in going back to SVN only for this IDE. Help is appreciated, thanks!

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I guess this is the wrong question for this forum, but so far I only found one git Gui which is not totally bad. Try gitkraken. And from my experience, most IDE integrations of a DVCS suck, as they only offer a subset of functionality and lack good visualisation.

So my advice is accept to use a second tool. Do not insist on IDE integration.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Certainly a good point regarding integrated functionality vs external tool. I am currently using the command line for controlling git functions if what I need is not available in the IDE itself. You like gitkraken? \$\endgroup\$
    – Cole Jackson
    Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 19:52
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    \$\begingroup\$ I started with mercurial in 2008 or so. git from comandline is a nightmare for me. at least compared to mercurial :-) Also I love mecurials tortoisehg gui which is lean, logic and so functional... I think I tried every free git gui to find something similar. Sourcetree [sourcetreeapp.com/] - the second best so far... gitahead, gitcola,... but only gitkraken is complete enough for my expectations. I realy like it... well at least for a git gui \$\endgroup\$
    – schnedan
    Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 20:01
  • \$\begingroup\$ Great, thanks for the info! I have no experience with mercurial and came from a company that used SVN exclusively. Now that I am out on my own I opted for Git. gitkraken is downloaded and that's the route I will take with IAR. Thanks! \$\endgroup\$
    – Cole Jackson
    Commented Sep 8, 2020 at 21:05
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    \$\begingroup\$ I agree with keeping version control out of the programming IDE, I have nothing but bad experience from such. Multiple monitors and separate programs is a much better solution. \$\endgroup\$
    – Lundin
    Commented Sep 9, 2020 at 9:00

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