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Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski

Using Git in SAP Web IDE (with Multiple Developers)

I wanted to revisit the basic use of Git because there have been several changes in the last six months to make it easier to use, as well as changes in the SAP Cloud Platform.

I’m glad the topic is getting some exposure — thanks to Kiran for her recent blog on the topic, especially a view in the SAP Cloud Platform cockpit showing how to create a new version of an application from a specific commit. Still, there are a few additional things to show, including multi-developer scenario.

Want to watch?

Below I will spell out the steps, but here’s a fresh 3-minute video that shows the complete steps for starting working with Git in a multi-developer scenario.

How to work with Git

Developer 1

Here’s the workflow for the first developer (with tips along the way).

  1. Create a Git repository. This can be in Github or in a Git system in your company. For our example, we create a Git repository in the SAP Cloud Platform.
    Creating a Git repository in SAP Cloud Platform is now simpler. You no longer have to create an application to get a Git repository, nor from SAP Web IDE do you have to create a project and deploy it. In SAP Cloud Platform, just go to the cockpit and select Repositories Git Repositories, and create one by clicking New Repository. Click on your new repository and get the clone URL for later.
  2. Create a project. In SAP Web IDE, create a project, for example, from a template.
  3. Initialize a local repository. Make your project a local Git repository by right-clicking the project in the workspace, and selecting Git Initialize Local Repository.
  4. Set remote repository. Here’s where you connect your local repository in Step 3 to the remote repository you created in Step 1. Click on Set Remote, either in the notification you get after initializing, or in the Git menu. 
  5. Rebase. Get the latest commits.
    If you don’t rebase, you’ll have trouble pushing later. A common problem I had was that on my first commit I could not push (the dreaded FAST FORWARD error), even though I knew my repository was empty. But in fact the repository has an automatic first commit, and you need to retrieve it. (When you create the Git repository in SAP Cloud Platform, you are asked if you want a first commit — it’s on by default.)
  6. Stage, commit, and push.
    I often forget to add a commit message and then wonder why the Commit button is disabled.

Developer 2

Now a second developer is interested in working on the project.

  1. Clone the repository. Get the clone URL from the first developer, and go Clone Git Clone Repository. The clone dialog is much simpler, and now you only need a clone URL. You can also select whether your repository works with Gerrit for code checking. More on Gerrit in another blog.
  2. Code. Make changes to the project as necessary.
  3. Stage, commit, and push.

Developer 1

Back to the first developer, who wants to get the latest changes.

  1. Fetch. Fetching brings back information about the remote repository — like what branches there are and what commits you are missing — but it does not update your project in the SAP Web IDE.
  2. Rebase. Rebasing updates your project with all the changes in the remote repository made by other developers (and that you already brought back with the Fetch command).

That’s it. In upcoming blogs, we’ll go through what happens when there are conflicts, and how to use Gerrit for code review and collaboration.

 

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      Author's profile photo Ram Ganhti
      Ram Ganhti

      Hi Daniel,

      Thank you for your post. Its helpful.

       

      I have two trail accounts. In one trail account, I have created GIT repository and stored sample project created in that account.

      I tried to clone  the same repository in other trial account, I got error as "Service not enabled".

      Please can you help me to understand the issue.

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author

      There is no supported use case where a user from one account will get access to a repository in another account. The use case I described was with 2 developers in the same account. You could of course use Github, but you essentially have the same issue -- you need to create an account in Github.

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

       

      Hi @Ram Ganti & @Daniel Wroblewski ,

       

      This is actually feasible on trial as well.

       

      In the past you use to have a dialog where you could enter your credentials, but in a trial scenario I wasn’t making sense as you would only use your GIT.

       

      So the dialog is now simplified with just the remote source url only.

       

      So to connect to a remote account GIT on trial, you will need to adjust the repository url and include the remote user id in it like this:

      https://<remote scp user id>@git.hanatrial.ondemand.com/<remote scp user id>/<remote scp git repo name>

       

      Then you should get prompted for the password for <remote scp user id>. Make sure you check “Remember password”.

       

      Hope this helps.

       

      @bdel

      Author's profile photo Ezequiel A
      Ezequiel A

      Abdel.

       

      This is exactly what i’m looking for.

       

      I tried your suggestion, but when i Input the password for  <remote scp user id>, it does’nt work. It says “Not authorized”…

      Just to clarify, the password im putting is the pasword for the <remote scp user id> user, the one i use to login to SAP HCP.  

      Is there something i’m missing?

       

      Thanks!

      Ez

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

      Hi,

       

      Let's say I'm user A with my Git repo name myrepo I want to share with you, let's call you user B.

       

      So, from a WebIDE session under user B credentials, I would enter:

      https://userA@git.hanatrial.ondemand.com/userA/myrepo

      Then I will have to enter user A password when prompted.

       

      It was working when I wrote the response, but I haven't tested it since then to be honest.

       

      @bdel

      Author's profile photo Ezequiel A
      Ezequiel A

      Thank you very much for your answer!

      Yes, that's exactly what i'm doing, but i get the "Not Authorized" message...

      May be it's not working anymore?

      If it's not much asking.. when you have a minute could you try if it's working now? Just to discard that it's me doing something wrong.

      Ez.

      Author's profile photo Sam Reddy
      Sam Reddy

      HI ,

      Is it possible to get Git Repository files and content ? other application ? we need any API support here ?

      i will tell you my case:

      i have one input files and button . in the input filed i give hcp git url  like https://git.hanatrial.ondemand.com/p1xxxxx/fioridemo.

      after clicking submit button i need to get the “fioridemo” files and content in table .

      i get succeed using github.com to get the user repository  files and content by using https://api.github.com/ API file.

       

      is there any API file to get the HCP Git repository ?

       

      please suggest me on this.:)

       

      Regards,
      Sam

       

      Author's profile photo Michal Keidar
      Michal Keidar

      Please create a separate thread and use the relevant tags for it

      Author's profile photo Ekansh Saxena
      Ekansh Saxena

      Hello Abdel,

      I also tried your approach but even after entering the password of userA while cloning the userA's repository in userB's webide, it is not working. I am sure that I am entering the correct password.

      Can you help in this?

       

      Regards,

      Ekansh

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

      Hi Ekansh Saxena,

       

      As @Michal Keidar remomended you should create a question for this.

       

      At the time I provided my response it was working, but since then the WEB IDE and The GIT integration in SAP Cloud Platform may have change.

       

      Regards

       

      Abdel DADOUCHE

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author

      OK, I thought you meant you had one user who had access to 2 SCP accounts. So in essence you have simply set up 2 trial accounts (with 2 different users) and do not grant permissions across accounts. Right?

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

      yes, 2 trial accounts (with 2 different users). Then from one setup the GIT, and on the second use the first one credentials as mentioned earlier.

       

      Let me know if it worked for you.

      Author's profile photo Michal Keidar
      Michal Keidar

      Unrelated question - how did you tag the persons in your comment?

      Thanks 🙂

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

      You can use the "at" sign with the user name ;-).

       

      Author's profile photo Michal Keidar
      Michal Keidar

      @Abdel DADOUCHE - does it work? I don't think it works..

       

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

      It use to work 🙁 @Michal Keidar 

      Author's profile photo Sam Reddy
      Sam Reddy

      Can you answer my question ?

      Author's profile photo SAMUELE BARZAGHI
      SAMUELE BARZAGHI

      Hi,

      I think url should be:

      https://userA@git.hanatrial.ondemand.com/accountA/myrepo

      example:

      https://p0XXXXXX@git.hanatrial.ondemand.com/p0XXXXXXtrial/myrepo

      Bye

      Sam

      Author's profile photo Fernanda Maia
      Fernanda Maia

      I tried this way sharing repositories between two trial accounts and it worked! Thanks a lot! =)

      Author's profile photo Sam Reddy
      Sam Reddy

      HI ,

      Is it possible to get Git Repository files and content ? other application ? we need any API support here ?

      i will tell you my case:

      i have one input files and button . in the input filed i give hcp git url  like https://git.hanatrial.ondemand.com/p1xxxxx/fioridemo.

      after clicking submit button i need to get the "fioridemo" files and content in table .

      i get succeed using github.com to get the user repository  files and content by using https://api.github.com/ API file.

       

      is there any API file to get the HCP Git repository ?

       

      please suggest me on this.:)

       

      Regards,
      Sam

       

      Author's profile photo Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)
      Abdel DADOUCHE (SAP)

      Hi,

       

      Unfortunately, I didn't found any API exposed for GIT repositories hosted on the SAP Cloud Platform.

      May be @Daniel Wroblewski will have an answer.

      Regards

      Author's profile photo Sam Reddy
      Sam Reddy

      Hi,

      Thanks for the return.

       

      i'm also facing same issue with HCP Git , @Daniel Wrobleski or anyone can help here .

      i'm able to get repositories from Github actually.

      Regards,
      Sam

      Author's profile photo Quoc Vuong Ho
      Quoc Vuong Ho

      Hello,

      When I pull remote repository to my local branch in SAP Web Ide, I've got this problem with GIT:

      3:13:49 PM (git) Pull request failed No merge base could be determined. Reason=CONFLICTS_DURING_MERGE_BASE_CALCULATION. "More than 200 merge bases for:
      a ac84124fd128aa579db65693b36be11b5d9a3575
      b 1b9e27eb78bed7f9ec40517fee32dfb0a5504ef7 found:
      count 2"

      I've searched but found no solution, the only solution is mentioned here.

      They suggest to update the git version to higher version, but it seems unable to do so in sap web IDE. The Web IDE also does not support git command line so there's no solution to get over this bug.

      Could you please support this case?

      Thanks a lot!

      Victor.

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Victor,

      I have not encountered this problem. Can you do a Fetch and then a Rebase?

      Daniel

      Author's profile photo Quoc Vuong Ho
      Quoc Vuong Ho

      Hi Daniel,

      The git system has fixed the problem.

      After getting the error, I've tried to Fetch then Rebase but I didn't work.

      After sometimes, Git system has fixed the error (I'm not sure how) by merging all the changes into one commit. I've searched the Internet and the community mentioned that this is a bug from Git.

      I hope we won't encounter this bug in the future.

      Thank you!

      Victor

      Author's profile photo Shanir Tvaija
      Shanir Tvaija

      Hi, when I try to clone the Git repository to my workspace from HCP, all I get is gitignore file. WebIDE console gives error (CloneandOpen) Path parameter not found. I cannot find any solution or description of the similar problem anywhere, do you have any idea why cloning git is not working for me?

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author

      It's tough to diagnose...can you provide screen shots and exactly what you did, and the exact message?

      Author's profile photo Shanir Tvaija
      Shanir Tvaija

      Hi, Daniel, I found the reason why it is like this - the GIT master branch link is empty, instead tree is visible and is located under the version tags. What could be done so I could get to the tree and clone it to webIDE?

      Thanks!

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author

      Uri Nizan Can you suggest an answer?

       

      Author's profile photo Michal Tall
      Michal Tall

      Hi Diana ,

      I'm trying to understand your flow:
      1. From the cockpit you go to Git Repository.
      2. From the list of the git project you click on your project.
      3. Then you copy the 'Repository URL'
      4. From Web IDE you click on File > Git > Clone Repository
      5. You paste the copied URL into URL filed and click on Clone.
      6. And then what ? do you get an error message ? do you get your project tree ?

      If it is possible please attach a screenshot and/or update the scenario.
      Please specify what is expected and what is the actual result.

      Regards,
      Michal

      Author's profile photo Mauricio Pinheiro Predolim
      Mauricio Pinheiro Predolim

      Hi guys.

      After using GIT in SAPWEBIDE, i'm having this issue for every single view that i try to open in Layout editor:

      Testing with same project outside GIT it's working...

      Any thoughts?

      Thanks.

      Mauricio

       

       

       

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author

      Michal Tall Do you know anything about this issue?

       

      Author's profile photo Mauricio Pinheiro Predolim
      Mauricio Pinheiro Predolim

      Hi.

       

      Any news about the Git clone repository above?

       

      Best regards.

       

      Mauricio.

      Author's profile photo Michal Keidar
      Michal Keidar

      Hi Mauricio,

      First, please create a separate question for your issue, and not as a comment in a blog.

      Second, I see from your screenshot that you're using the old version of Web IDE. Please use Web IDE Full-Stack, and if you're still having this issue, either open a support ticket (if you have a paid license), or create a new question.

      Regards,
      Michal.

      Author's profile photo Swaroop Anasane
      Swaroop Anasane

      Mauricio Pinheiro Predolim I confirm it's working on trail webide.

      GIT on user A, cloned to user B, using credentials on user A.

      Regards,

      Swaroop

      Author's profile photo sani kali
      sani kali

      Hi Daniel,

       

      This is very helpful.

      Can you tell me after this can we fetch this code  in Visual studio code with the help of SAP Git repository ?

      If yes could you please tell me how to do this ?

       

       

      Thanx

      Sani.

      Author's profile photo Daniel Wroblewski
      Daniel Wroblewski
      Blog Post Author
      1. This was a while ago and I'm not with SAP Web IDE anymore, so I'm not so up to date.
      2. I'm sure there has been a lot of changes with the SCP Git functionality, as well as the way in SAP Web IDE for using Git (e.g., can create Git repository from within SAP Web IDE without going to cockpit).
      3. I'm not sure I understand the question: You mean can someone not logged into SCP access the Git repository? When I clone from a Git repository, I have to log into my SCP account.
      4. This tutorial is based on the Neo environment, which seems likely to be superseded by Cloud Foundry. I don't see repositories in CF.

      Hope that helps a little 🙂