How to use Git for versioning with Community Edition

Community Edition support a single workspace located in: <studio_install_directory>/workspace and a single project located inside the workspace folder. Project folder name depends on your language ("My project" for English users).

You need to have Git installed on your computer to follow this tutorial. You can download it from https://git-scm.com/downloads. In this tutorial we will use Git command line tool but you should be able to achieve the same result using graphical user interfaces.

You also need to have a Bonita Studio installed.

The first step is to Initialize a Git repository in your project folder.

On Windows:

On Linux:

At this stage you have an empty Git local repository. If you run the command git status you will see that all folders and files in the project folder are reported as "Untracked files".

Part of the files located in the Bonita project folder should not be tracked by Git. Such files are usually the result of compilation operations.

To ignore the appropriate files:

If you run again the command git status you should now get a shorter list of untracked files.

Now you can run the command git add --all to add all untracked files to the Git staging area.

And create your first commit by doing git commit.

At this stage you can track the history of your project locally. But what if you want to share your project publicly? Let see how we can share the project on GitHub: