VI History Suite

VI History Suite is a Visual Studio Code extension for reviewing LabVIEW VI history in Git repositories. It helps you pick two retained revisions of a .vi, .ctl, or .vit file, review the compare preflight, and generate a LabVIEW comparison report.

The active public source home is:

https://github.com/LabVIEW-Community-CI-CD/vi-history-suite

The published Marketplace extension ID remains:

svelderrainruiz.vi-history-suite

Install

Install from the VS Code Extensions view, or run:

code --install-extension svelderrainruiz.vi-history-suite

Then run VI History: Prepare Local Runtime Settings CLI from the Command Palette and validate the local runtime:

vihs
vihs --validate

Use

1. Open a trusted Git repository that contains a tracked .vi, .ctl, or .vit file.
2. Right-click the file and choose VI History, or use the editor title action.
3. Select exactly two retained revisions with the checkbox column.
4. Review the compare preflight.
5. Choose Compare.

Windows defaults to local LabVIEWCLI when the provider has not been chosen. Docker remains available for users who intentionally select and validate it.

Source Evaluation

The normal source-evaluation path is a devcontainer or Codespace:

npm ci
npm run check
npm test
npm run package

Use F5 in VS Code to launch the extension development host.

Optional fixture helpers:

npm run public:fixture:icon-editor
npm run public:repo:clone -- --repo-url https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>.git

Vagrant is retained only as an optional local helper for humans who already have a Windows/LabVIEW box. It is not a release gate. See docs/vagrant.md.

Contribute

This repository is licensed under BSD0 / 0BSD. Pull requests are welcome under the same license. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

For help, use SUPPORT.md. For vulnerability reporting, use SECURITY.md.