The following prerequisites
must be met before you can use the version control features in SAS
Data Integration Studio:
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A version control server must be
installed in a location that is accessible to SAS Data Integration
Studio. The following servers are supported: Concurrent Versions System
server CVS 1.11.x, CVSNT2.0.x, CVSNT2.5.x, and CVSNT2.8.x, and Apache
Subversion (SVN) server 1.6.x.
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A version control plug-in must
be installed in SAS Data Integration Studio, such as the CVS plug-in
or the SVN plug-in.
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The path to the version control
client executable (.exe file) and the credentials for the version
control server must be specified in the appropriate version control
plug-in tab (for example,
CVS Plugin tab,
SVN
Plugin tab, and so on).
The version control
plug-in tabs are available when you select
Tools >
Options from
SAS Data Integration Studio. Note that you can connect to only one
version control server at a time. If you change version control servers,
you must uninstall the first version control server plug-in before
you install its replacement.
For example, the CVS
and SVN plug-ins are shipped with SAS Data Integration Studio, and
the CVS plug-in is found first by default. If you would prefer to
use the SVN plug-in, you must remove the CVS plug-in (sas.dbuilder.versioncontrol.cvsplugin.jar)
from the install path. Then, you will be able to use the SVN plug-in.
The default path for these plug-ins is
Program Files\SASHome\SASVersionedJarRepository\eclipse\plugins\.
For information about
a version control server and client, see the documentation for that
server and client. Support is provided for CVS and SVN by default.
There is a documented application programming interface (API) to integrate
other versioning systems with SAS Data Integration Studio. See this
API documentation at
http://support.sas.com/rnd/gendoc/versioncontrol/43/en/.
The SAS Data Integration
Studio SVN plug-in works only with command-line SVN clients such as
the 32–bit version of Subversion for Windows. The plug-in does
not work with a graphic user interface-only SVN client such as rapidSVN.
For more information, consult the user documentation provided with
the client that you select.
If the SVN command-line
client is not available in your existing SVN package, you should consider
obtaining a command-line client from
http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html.
This command-line client will enable you use SAS Data Integration
Studio with the SVN server.