On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:56 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/08/2016 11:49 PM, John McKown wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Frank Swarbrick < >> frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: >> >> Since I developed it at work for work I'll have to ask my employer about >>> that. Of course perhaps I should have asked before posting it publicly, >>> but that's water under the bridge now! >>> >>> Sidetracking, has anyone used GitHub for z/OS production source >>> repository. Meaning interacting with it directly from the mainframe? >>> All >>> of our distributed development groups use it, and it might be nice if we >>> could use it as well. >>> >>> Just as a personal observation, I'd think that this would be difficult. >> Someone would need to port the "git" command to z/OS. And that would >> likely >> be a major undertaking since it uses the GNU tools to do a lot of it's >> setup. It may also depend on some gcc (GNU compiler) specific >> functionality. And, even if it is ported, there is the historic ASCII (UTF >> actually) vs EBCDIC dilemma. You wouldn't believe the number of problems >> I've read about due to the Windows CRLF vs UNIX LF-only line ending >> causing >> "problems". >> >> > I use git for z/OS UNIX stuff via SMB and it works well from a PC shell. A > script that mirrors PDS libraries should work. > Ah, I hadn't thought about using the Linux or Windows version of git & z/OS NFS to map the z/OS data onto a PC. Interesting! -- Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
