Version control on Tandem (Other than RMS)

[sachin...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Kindly share some recommendation on version control (Software configuration management) tool for HPNS/Tandem. Currently, RMS is being used in our shop, What other better tools available ?

Here are couple of things which are looking for :
1.Need a way to branch and Merge as there are multiple long and short terms projects in flight.
2.GUI based, easy to use.

If possible, Please share some case studies too with your recommendation.

[Keith Dick]

Randall Becker just announced a version of git for NonStop. Its official release is to be in January, and the contact for more information is sa...@nexbridge.com

If you are on LinkedIn, you might be able to view this discussion:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/21st-century-scm-git-guardian-randall-becker

That version apparently has some extra features for maintaining a parallel OSS and Guardian version of each branch, or something like that. I don't remember any mention of a GUI for it.

If you can get by without a GUI, the regular version of git is available in the open source library for OSS on NonStop that Connect maintains. That version runs in OSS and is free. Guardian programs can be built from within OSS, so don't dismiss it out of hand if your need is to built Guardian programs. If you want to check it out, you can get to that open source library using this link:

http://ituglib.connect-community.org

There are pre-built binaries available for H and J series systems and for L series systems. If you want to build it from source yourself, you can do that, too, but it requires more work.

There are some other, old version control systems available for NonStop, but I don't know much about them. If one or the other version of git is not suitable for some reason, post again explaining that, and someone probably will be able to tell you about those others.

[Randall]

Thanks Keith. Yes, we are currently in Beta with a January release. NSGit (http://www.nexbridge.com/products/host-nonstop/nsgit/) is a GUARDIAN-aware front-end component for Git that allows you to use Git commands from within TACL. It knows about ENSCRIBE files and can manage code 101 and 180 files, object files, DDL dictionaries, structured files, and POBJ (each program inside is separately versionable. The product also supports name mapping, so you can have the same file as src.h in OSS/NSDEE and srch in GUARDIAN, with identical commit ids.

Because we have full integration with Git, you can manage your GUARDIAN code with a git clone in a GUI like SourceTree or Gitk. The GUARDIAN side is just another repository clone with a separate working index.

Contact me at rsbecker at nexbridge dot com for info.

[King]

In case you're not aware, RMS has a Window's base GUI interface. It handles branching and merge quite well. More information here: https://www.emperex.com/members/secure/downloads_primecode.php

[shwetan...@gmail.com]

In my earlier organization, we were using Primecode for version controlling...it was GUI-based and easy to use.