RE: Git for RPG source code management

Sounds like if you want something unified you should look at Arcad or one of the other providers that works with multiple repositories such as Git and TFS and also IBMi.

I have no experience with it but did a quick google search.

Better than trying to hammer something yourself to download, upload, commit, build,etc if you want one unified solution.

iProjects in RDP might work, but very klunky to work with. Although I think they hook up to Rational Team Concert.

Still might end up with one process for IBMi source and another for .Net, Java, etc.......

That's why I like my idea of letting source files still be the master and do daily Git commits to your TFS/Git repo.

Don't try to fix the old IBMi paradigm but manage your source with a combo of old and new.

Share with us what you find.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
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p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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message: 4
date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 21:20:43 +0000
from: Matt Olson <Matt.Olson@xxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Git for RPG source code management

All our other source code is hosted in TFS using Git as the repository engine. That is the "master" repository.

What users work on should be a local copy of the master repository and push changes up to the master repository when they are ready.

I should be able to do this from a laptop, disconnected from the network. Which is one of the features of Git.

Additionally, we want all the companys source code in one place so we can have unified tracking of it (linking specific RPG Git push's to specific work items, pull request linking, etc.). Basically the full life cycle of software development is tracked there in a much more robust manner than we have available on the IBMi.

I am trying to find how folks who have implemented Git for RPG source have done it. Specifically the mechanics of where the RPG source code resides (users machine or IFS). I'm hoping NOT IFS as that limits your "work on RPG anywhere" feature of Git.

Also, I want to know if RDP "pushes" the source code to the IBMi from the users local C: drive for the purposes of compiling (someday we may get a RPG compiler that runs locally on the users machine ?)

If we "push" to the IBM I's git repository instead of our current Git repository in TFS we will have no way to link it to work item # 967, and subsequently pull request 252 for full code review traceability and work item linking.