Should I put the complete Tornado tree under version control or not?

Question

I finally have a hardware guy that is insterested in controlling the firmware.

This is for vxworks firmware. The tornado (2.2.1) gui creates a project file that has a list of files that were modified but they seem to be from all over the directory tree.

So I am tempted to just controll those files.

Answer 1

Checking in the Tornado target tree as a whole is a good idea in my opinion. The biggest advantage is, that service packs and patches are propagated automatically to other team members and _even_more_important_ to the build machine. An other advantage is, that if you need to debug something in an old version, you have the correct header files and libraries.

See VxWorks / Tornado II FAQ - 1.12 Version control