To use source control effectively, use the following guidelines as best practices.
Adhere to the following guidelines as you develop and work with assets:
Guidelines for managing dependencies
Use the following guidelines to manage assets with dependencies:
- Create connections and runtime environments before you pull assets from the repository.
When required connections and runtime environments exist in the target organization, you can run tasks immediately after you pull them from the repository.
- Ensure that reusable assets such as mappings and components are present in the repository before you use them.
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services does not allow you to save an asset such as a mapping task when the dependent mapping does not exist in the organization.
Guidelines for checking in and checking out assets
Use the following guidelines when you check in and check out assets:
- When you rename or move an asset, check out the asset's first-level dependent assets and include them in the same check-in.
For example, if you want to rename a mapping that a mapping task uses, and the mapping task is used in a taskflow, check out the mapping and the mapping task. You don't need to check out the taskflow. After you rename the mapping, check in the mapping and the mapping task in one check-in action.
- Enter comments when you check in assets.
When you check in assets, you might enter a release tag name in the Summary field and enter more descriptive comments in the Description field. When you do this, the Git Summary field in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services shows the release tag that is associated with the asset.
- When you check in multiple assets at one time, limit the number of assets to 1000 or fewer.
Checking in more than 1000 assets at one time can degrade performance between Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services and the GitHub repository service.