Anyone using Git for version control of SAS Data Integration Studio 4.

[LinusH]

As you can read above, no, not a institute supported one for customers.

[ChrisHemedinger]

As you might have gleaned, a technician at SAS build an extension as a prototype and shared it internally within SAS.  We are looking to see if it is something that can be shared externally.  If so, we'll post back.

Such prototypes are often built as proof-of-concept or demos.  As such, the quality might not be suitable for production use and the authors might be reluctant to publish as-is. Those caveats apply here. 

But as you can see from some of the replies, it is possible to build your own extension based on the source code that SAS supplies.  That might be more than you're willing to do at this point.  

[manpreetps]

Thanks Chris for the quick reply.

[AndrewHowell]

Chris,

Why not put word out for client sites willing to beta-test? I'm at a site which is keen to use Git not just for source-code control, but also to mange SDLC promotion from Dev-Test-Prod.

I've played with (*.sas) code in versioning software, and am keen to test how it handles (*.spk) metadata packages, inter-object dependencies, etc.

Regards,

Andrew.

[paulkaefer]

@AndrewHowell, we use version control for SAS code, and it works great. You can certainly develop a workflow for not just committing development changes at the end of the day, but also using branching and tagging in git for production-ready/tested versions. A production environment can pull approved versions from the repository.

I've done enough testing of versioning .spk files to know that, while it's not ideal (.spk are binary files, essentially a form of .zip files), it works at least to preserve versions & cover yourself in the case something corrupts or a change is made that needs to be backed out. Not sure as far as promoting an entire DI Studio process to a separate environment, but at least you can export and commit.

I do discuss version control for SAS programmers in my MWSUG 2017 paper, an update of which will be at SGF. If you're there, I would enjoy the chance to discuss further.

[manpreetps]

Thanks.