Setting up and working with Source Control Management
If you work in a multi-author environment, working with a Source Control Management (SCM) enables you to manage your project in a centralized location and collaborate on it with other authors. It also enables you to recover or revert changes.
Using the Git functionality, you can connect to a remote repository on a server (such as Github, for example) or connect to a shared file system.
Note: Working with Source Control Management is not mandatory, but it is recommended.
To set up a repository, see Setting up Source Control Management for the Project.
To work with SCM, see Working with Source Control Management (SCM).
You can attach only one repository per workspace. Within that repository, it is possible to have multiple projects.
Git Terminology
Pulling Changes
In Git, downloading the latest version of the files from the remote repository is known as a "Pull" action.
After you complete a "Pull" action, new files are added to your projects and files that were modified in Git are updated in your project.
It is recommended to pull the latest version each day, before starting to work on the files.
Committing and Pushing Changes
In some Git applications, there are two steps to syncing your modified files into the repository: "committing" them to a local repository in preparation for upload and "pushing" them to the remote repository.
In OO Designer, there is a single action "commit and push", which you use to sync your files into the remote repository.