Import a Visual Application from a Git Repository

If your visual application's sources are stored in a Git repository, you can import the visual application sources by creating a copy of the repository in your project. You'll then need to create build jobs that use the new repository.

To import a visual application from an existing Git repository:

1. On the Organization page in VB Studio, select the project where you want to import the visual application.
2. On the Projects page, click + Create Repository in the Repositories tab to open the New Repository dialog box.
   
   

   
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3. In the dialog box, enter a name for the new repository and select Import existing repository.
4. Enter the https location of the repository containing your visual application and supply credentials, if needed. Click Create.
5. Open the Designer page and click + Create Workspace.
6. In the Create Workspace dialog, type a name for your workspace and click Clone from Git.
7. Select the Git repository you just created and select the branch of the repository you want to clone. This can be master, or any other branch..
8. Select New branch from selected and type a name for the branch you want to create.
9. Select the Development Environment. (You might have only one option.) Click Create Workspace.

VB Studio creates a workspace with the name and the repository option you specified. Once VB Studio completes set up of the workspace, it opens the workspace where you can work with the visual application that you imported. After you import a visual application, you might need to provide additional details such as service credentials for the application you imported.

In this case, VB Studio doesn't create any build jobs for you when you create your workspace because the Git repository already exists in your project.