If you are a Rational Developer for i (RDi) user, you have possibly tried using iProjects or other methods to manage your source code and found them painful at best. By creating User Actions in RDi, you can have the same PDM-like functionality that PDM users enjoy from the RDi Remote Systems Explorer instead of trying to use iProjects or other miscellaneous source editing and version control methods.
The RDi strategy for using existing source files would typically be to maintain your source in place in the source files and edit via RDi by opening and editing source members directly. After editing the goal would be to easily commit source member changes using the source control of git to get out of the habit of having to make source member copies when making changes, which leaves old versions of source members all over the place.
Using Git, source members and versions can simply be stored in a local shared IFS repository directory or they can be pushed to a remote git server (like Github or Bitbucket) if you have one established.
Getting Started with RDi and Git
The first thing you need to do is bring up a list of source members in RDi
Right-click on any source member and select User Actions/Work with User Actions.
Then under New, select Member action.
Commit Source Member to Git Repo-SRCTOGIT - Use the SRCTOGIT CL command to export and perform local commit to the IFS. Always perform this user action to commit a copy of a source member changes to git.
Action type: Member action
Action name: Commit Source Member to Git Repo-SRCTOGIT
Comment: Export source to git repository
Command: Normal command
Command entry: IFORGIT/SRCTOGIT SRCFILE(&L/&F) SRCMBR(&N) IFSREPODIR(*LIBREPODTAARA) SRCHEADER(*YES) SRCDATSEQ(*NO) REPLACE(*YES) EDITOPT(*NONE) VALIDREPO(*YES) IFSMKDIR(*YES) INITREPO(*YES) COMMITOPT(*COMMIT) COMMENT(*DATEUSER)
Prompt first: Check this box so command will prompt (Optional but good for testing.)
Show action: Check this box.
Defined types: ALL
Selected types: ALL
Get Most Recent Source Member from Git-SRCFRMGIT - Use the SRCFRMGIT CL command to pull and import a file version from the local IFS repository directory. Always perform this user action to read most recent version from your local git repository.
Action type: Member action
Action name: Get Most Recent Source Member from Git-SRCFRMGIT
Comment: Import source from git repository
Command: Normal command
Command entry: IFORGIT/SRCFRMGIT IFSREPODIR(*LIBREPODTAARA) SRCFILE(&L/&F) SRCMBR(&N) SRCTYPE(&T) SRCHEADER(*YES) SRCDATSEQ(*NO) REPLACE(*YES) EDITOPT(*NONE) VALIDREPO(*YES) COMMITOPT(*COMMIT) COMMENT(*DATEUSER)
Prompt first: Check this box so command will prompt (Optional but good for testing.)
Show action: Check this box.
Defined types: ALL
Selected types: ALL