Source Control in a SIMULINK Project

Hi to everyone,

I am sorry if this is a stupid question but I want to be sure about it.

Until now I was working without SIMULINK projects but just with single SIMULINK models.

Now I would like to switch to SIMULINK projects in order to exploit their Source Control features (In particular I will use GIT).

Here http://blogs.mathworks.com/seth/2011/09/02/simulink-projects-collaborative-workflows-and-model-based-design/

I read:

------------------------------------------

When you use Git in Simulink Project, you can:

1. Create local Git repositories.
2. Fetch files from remote Git repositories.
3. Create and switch branches.
4. Merge branches locally.
5. Commit locally.
6. Push files to remote Git repositories.

------------------------------------------

So, from what I understand adding Source Control capabilities will allow me to perform all the GIT actions not from terminal but directly inside MATLAB-SIMULINK environment.

These are all the advantages or including source control to my projects will also help me to have a more robust commit-push-pull behavior? I mean, in SIMULINK we use for example .slx files, is it possible that they will be corrupted by a commit-push procedure done just with the GIT commands from terminal?

I hope you understood what I meant.

Thanks for your help,

Fab.

[Trevor Fry]

You can mark .slx files as binaries and so that GIT knows not merge these files on its own. See "Register Model Files with Git" at https://www.mathworks.com/help/simulink/ug/set-up-git-source-control.html?requestedDomain=www.mathworks.com#bt63r9e-1