4 Manage Source Code Files with Git

A Visual Builder Studio project uses hosted Git repositories to store source code files and to provide version control. A project can have just one repository or it can have multiple ones. If you’re developing visual applications or extensions using the Designer, this Git repository is associated with your project as well as with your workspace, which is a private work area within the Designer. Regardless of whether you’re developing applications inside or outside the Designer, you can choose whether to use a Git repository provided by VB Studio, hosted on Oracle Cloud, or to associate your project with an external Git repository (like GitHub).

This chapter describes how to manage your Git repository for non-Designer applications. Interacting with a Git repository in the context of the Designer is described in What Is the Designer?.