I run Git for Windows on my work PC which is very good indeed. It has a
bash shell emulator and a nice GUI. We use SMB on z/OS and map the
network drives on windows, so it's easy to use git from the command line
with the working directory mapping to the zFS file system. It's simple
to push/pull stuff from/to github. We have a private github account and
it's a great platform for development. We use the issue tracking system
to create a backlog of work items. The tooling on github is superb.
I've recently been using a beta version of Windows 10 that has an
integrated Ubuntu Linux VM running so I can use bash natively
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about. It's great, much
better than VirtualBox running VMs or Cygwin. It's a smart move by
Microsoft. All the young kids are working on open source these days and
they all uses macs because of the toolset, bash, homebrew etc. By
integrating a Linux subsystem into Windows they may attract hipster
hackers back the platform. Desktop Linux is ok but it's nowhere near as
polished as iOS or Windows.
On 10/08/2016 1:27 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Can you clarify? Do you run 'git' on Windows (I assume) and specify SMB
folders that actually exist on USS as your local repository (or whatever its
called)?
Sounds interesting. Of course we don't use z/OS SMB, so that's an, umm,
"opportunity". :-)
Frank
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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.
Frank
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