Corporate Git Setup on SAP BTP versus connecting to Corporate Git directly from SAP BAS

[abdul_hakim]

Hello,

We are planning to use Corporate Azure Repository for source code/version control management for the SAP Fiori developments done from SAP Business Application Studio. 

We are able to connect to Corporate Azure Repo from SAP Business Application studio using Git commands and push our changes to/from Repo.

We also found this document from SAP where it talks about setting up Cloud connector etc for Connecting to Corporate Git repository from SAP Business Application Studio.

Connecting to a Corporate Git Repository | SAP Help Portal

Question: Since we are able to connect to Corporate Git Repo without Cloud connector setup, may i know what is the use case where we need to use / follow the instruction for connecting to Corporate Git as mentioned in SAP Document above?

Regards,

Abdul Hakim

[mryenthanh92]

Can you access your Corporate Git Repo from internet (outside of you corporate network, using your own PC, not any Remote PC or VDI)? If you are able to access like that, then you DON'T need Cloud Connector. The git repo is open to the internet.

Cloud Connector help BAS access "corporate git" that can be accessed ONLY FROM that CORPORATE NETWORK. Most of vendors have something like this to avoid stealing of source code.

[abdul_hakim]

When i try to access from my trail account it allows accessing repo with authentication(git username and password). I am still not clear on why we need cloud connector setup. What is the use case? When the cloud connector is setup with git repo and as the next step how the repo will be accessed from BAS and is it different from accessing public repo? Can you please clarify if you are aware. Regards Abdul Hakim