How to Work with the GitHub Flow in SAS Studio

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The GitHub flow is a lightweight, branch-based workflow. It supports teams and projects where developments or deployments are made regularly and frequently. This short video guide explains how the GitHub flow works. When you combine the GitHub flow with SAS Studio on SAS Viya, you take the SAS code development, collaboration and sharing to a whole new level. The simple data management example demonstrates well the good fit and its advantages.

GitHub and the Flow

As of January 2020, GitHub reports having over 40 million users and more than 190 million repositories, making it the largest host of source code in the world. With Microsoft as a parent, GitHub is deeply integrated with Azure pipelines in Azure DevOps.

Steps

How to apply the GitHub flow to data management with SAS Studio?

• Add a GitHub repository in SAS Studio.
• Create a branch.
• Commit your developed (and tested) code.
• Open a pull request.
• Discuss and review the code in GitHub.
• Test any code changes in SAS Studio. Add more commits if needed.
• Deploy your branch and test the code.
• Approve the pull request to merge the branch back into the main.

 

Video

Watch the following video, short demonstrations highlight all the steps above. The example uses SAS Studio on SAS Viya 2021.1. 

GitHub Flow and SAS Studio

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Notes

To replicate the above example you would need at least:

• A GitHub profile.
• A GitHub repository. You can use the following GitHub repository as an example. Fork it first if you need to change any of the files.
• SAS Viya 2020.1 (or later) with SAS Studio and the Git plug-in activated.

References

You can read more about the GitHub flow here.

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