Today LinkedIn news note points to an article on Git for z/OS by Rosalind Radcliffe, who has been speaking at SHARE for some time on its virtues. This very long URL goes through LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/git-zos-development-how-do-you-build-now-can-rosalind-radcliffe/?trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-recommended_articles-7-PBYN&midToken=AQFJkRF5baAZ4A&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3GEOaGOlxTtnY1 . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: git, z/OS and COBOL On 11/10/2017 9:48 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: >> I'd like to run into the problems before the applications people have a >> chance to hit it so we can head that all off. >> >> And I'd love to know the answers to this before the POC dies. So I am very >> interested in this thread. > I think all the discussion of line numbering is a bit of a red herring. You > can still use git on files that have line numbers. It may have to keep track > of “changes” that don’t really change anything, and it may require additional > storage and processing, but git still works. > > In most cases line numbers imbedded in files are relics of older > technologies, and you’re better off eliminating them. But if there’s a case > where you do still need them, it won’t prevent current technology from doing > its thing. > > (In case you couldn’t tell, I’m a big fan of git. I don’t think anyone > who embraces it will regret it.) Indeed! If you can ditch those relics all the better. I'm a big fan of git too. It's revolutionized our workflows on z/OS. We use bitbucket and Jira from Atlassian which integrate beautifully. We use agile and raise a Jira for each feature branch. This gives us visibility to every line of code that has been changed for each feature. We do code reviews on pull requests which is great for QA. Code reviews find bugs early and we've found find more bugs than systems testing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN