Amy, it is truly necessary to improve SAS Studio V to make it look like the state-of-the-art IDEs, like Visual Studio Code. It lacks of so many features, Git integration included: the use cases are all the standard git use cases to develop code among a wide group of programmers, like keeping track of who edit what and when, to roll back to a previous commit, branching to test new things, pull/push code from a corporate repository to let user to have any local copy but one and only one official version of the code, and many many. Nowadays, it's very difficult to work with a medium sized team with SAS Studio V: everyone writes on "/SASContent", everyone can edit others code and saving the content is overwritten forever, I myself deleted an official code by mistake and it was just gone. Of course one can restrict access to some folder, make backups, but that's not the point because it is difficult to "make and maintain" order. With Git you don't need to worry about any of these things "by design", and I believe it is a MUST to work on in order to keep up the pace with all the open source products.
Edit: or perhaps you should drop Sas Studio entirely, and work on a plugin to integrate Viya on the already existing IDEs like VSC!
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