4 Manage Your Extension with Git
Git lies at the heart of your work with extensions, whether you're configuring an App UI that Oracle built or creating one of your own. A Git repository contains your source files for the changes made to a given App UI.
If you're relatively inexperienced with Git, you may find it helpful to watch this video, which explains concepts like remote and local repositories, as well as how they tie in to Visual Builder Studio workspaces:
We've designed Visual Builder Studio so that you don't really have to learn Git if you don't want to. The actions described in Preview, Share, and Publish Your Extension are likely sufficient for you to complete work on your extension. However, the more you understand about how Git works within VB Studio, the more flexibility and power you'll have within the tool. If you'd like to learn a bit more, we recommended that you familiarize yourself with these topics before you start working in the Designer:
The rest of the topics in this chapter are geared towards users who are more advanced in their use of Git.