Need help with setting up a git version control for wwise

Question

I have attempted to set up a version control so that me and some fellow students can colaborate on a wwise project. I started a git repo and it has the wwise project folder within it. My friend created a test folder in wwise and pushed it in to main. I fetched and pulled from the repo to see if the changes were now in my project but we get an error message stating that the “physical folder was not found at the project load”. Dont really know why it wont work. Ive had it work seamlessly with other softwares before but here it doesnt seem to work, dont quite get it.

 

I am pretty new to using version control so yeah…

 

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

When your friend created a folder and pushed it, all it did is create it inside the .wwu file. But since Git does not have a concept of a folder, it does not track the folder being made. So when you pull these changes, Wwise reads the updated .wwu and looks for the new folder, which will not exist on your end. Git deals with filepaths. Same as Perforce.

The right way to test it is to create an actual file that Git can track, not a folder. Try having your friend create a new actor mixer entry and push that.

Comments

Thanks! But how would you go about creating folders then? Structure wise i guess it can get quite messy if not using folders? And also, i couldnt find a straight forwards guide on which files should be in the .gitignore. Does it even need to be setup or is that just for bigger projects?

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I think my initial answer might have not been clear enough. When you push a file into git, the file can be in any nested directory. But the directory itself is not tracked - the file is. So you can think of directories as something that's implicitly derived from all tracked files, but it's virtual in a way (no directories will ever be tracked or created explicitly without files being inside of them).