Managing Versions: KiCad sets of files

[NivagSwerdna]

This is probably a large topic but simply...

I have a design (OK many designs) which individually have a set of KiCAD files and I put these files in GIT as I go along so for a particular design I have a history of files... so far so good...

but now I need to have Rev 2 of my design and concurrently I need to maintain Rev 1 and in particular in Rev 1 I want to record the bodges I need to apply to get it to work

What's the best way of organising stuff?  Copy into a new directory as Rev2 in the same Repo and run them in parallell?

Just wondered

[voltsandjolts]

git-branch

[NivagSwerdna]

git-branch

I need to reorganise to do that... into smaller repos... but that's probably sensible.  Currently I have related designs in one repo... but each design versions seperately.

[Red Squirrel]

I THINK you can just copy the whole folder somewhere else.  At quick glance it does not look like there are any hard coded paths within any files. 

[Doctorandus_P]

If you have project specific libraries, you could have entered their location as either absolute or relative path in

Preferences / Manage Symbol Libraries
Preferences / Manage Footprint Libraries

Both dialogs have 2 tabs, and the right tab is for "Project specific Libraries".

There you can use ${KIPRJMOD} to point to the current location of the active project.

All KiCad's files are human readable ascii.
I've made good use of this with search and replace operations a few times, for example for changing some symbols or footprint references to different libraries.
But as KiCad's own interface is ever improving this is less and less necessary.