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Question Michael Derr · Dec 4, 2025

We are a group of interface analysts in a healthcare setting, running IRIS for Health 2024, having upgraded over time from an old ENSEMBLE environment.  We have been working on a wish list of development goals, but are having trouble finding the correct, best practice method/path for getting to what we envision.

Current state:  We run IRIS for Health on a Redhat 8 virtual machine.  We run Interoperability productions (IE.cls) out of 6 namespaces.  We have a dev/test box and a production box.

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Question Scott Roth · Nov 6, 2024

There are a select few in the group that have been using Github as a Local Client push to a Repository setup in GitHub. Questions were brought up today about the security, and possible issues when it comes to data being pushed in this method.

Looking over code we have noticed that there is Histogram data within some of the class files that could be considered a security issue. Does anyone else have concerns with the Histogram data being within the class files pushed up to github?

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Question Jochen Roese · Sep 15, 2025

Hi,

so we introduced GIT in our workflow and we exported all files with $SYSTEM.OBJ.ExportUDL

Everything fine so far. But for some reason the export adds an extra line for classes (Routines are OK as far as I can see):

On Serverside it isn't there

 

The Problem is now that when we checkout a branch and a class changed we automatically compile it from the repository to a namespace that is made for the developer. E.g. DEV_001, DEV_002 and so on.

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Question Patrik Spisak · Apr 19, 2025

After upgrading from 2024 to 2025 Im not able to compile any class.

I was using ZPM and git-source-control.

Now Im getting 

 

Compilation started on 04/19/2025 20:53:00 with qualifiers 'cuk /checkuptodate=expandedonly'

ERROR #5002: ObjectScript error: <CLASS DOES NOT EXIST>OnAfterSave+4^SourceControl.Git.Extension.1 *SourceControl.Git.Utils
Detected 1 errors during compilation in 0.209s. class '%Studio.SourceControl.Interface', method 'OnBeforeTimestamp': <CLASS DOES NOT EXIST> 150 

I disabled SourceControl in Management portal and nothing happen.

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Question Dmitrii Baranov · Mar 31, 2025

I'd like to ask you for recommendations on how to properly use repository dependencies when using VSCode and Client-side editing. Suppose I have projects A, B and C, with A being independent, B depending on A, and C depending on A and B. I am currently working with the main project C, and I want to be able to contribute to all the other projects in a single VSCode window (instead of opening three instances). How do you solve this problem? Git submodules? ZPM? Something else?

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Question Colin Brough · Mar 3, 2025

The compile step in VS Code when using the InterSystems VS Code extensions appears to modify line endings in our class files when newly pulled from remote repo.

What steps can we take to stop this happening? / What settings can we modify?

We are doing local development with client side source control using git (BitBucket Cloud repository). We were previously using GitLab (locally hosted) and didn't have this issue. Developers are all on Windows machines, as are all the Ensemble instances. We believe we have autocrlf = true in all our local git configurations.

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Question Shanwen Liu · Dec 10, 2024

Hey everyone, I am implementing version control with git-source-control on our codebase and I ran into a pretty strange issue. I believe I have the set up (mostly) correct as the behavior with .cls files is exactly as expected. However, I noticed that git is not keeping track of any changes to CSP files.

Specifically, if a new CSP file is created and saved, I will get the following output:

exporting new version of /csp/testdb/wrc.csp to C:\InterSystems\IRIS\mgr\repo\TESTDB\csp\testdb\wrc.csp

Added /csp/testdb/wrc.csp to source control.

C:\InterSystems\IRIS\mgr\repo\TESTDB\csp\testdb\wrc.

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Question Gautam Rishi · Jun 21, 2023

Hi everyone, 
I am new to "git-source-control", what i am doing so far will explain you in few steps.
1. installed git-source-control into a namsapace TEST using ZPM "install git-source-control"
2. configure the git settings and created a new mapping for as such 

 

3. Now when I am trying to ADD a new file which is created for eg - NewFolder/impl.cls , getting an error like this

exporting new version of NewFolder.impl.cls to /Users/abc/workspace/NewFolder/impl.cls

 

No mapping with a matching path found for file NewFolder/impl.

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Question Reuben Formosa · Jul 15, 2024

We have installed IRIS on a separate server that we access remotely and copied all code and data to it so we can test IRIS before we do the move. We develop directly on the server. We Use VsCode to code but sometimes we might need to go to cache studio for some tasks.

We were interested in git for Shared Development Environments, we have installed it on a server with IRIS 2021 and configured it by following the instructions and videos of InterSystems summits we found online. We initialised a local repository on the server, added some files to start testing branches.

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Question Token Ibragimov · Apr 2, 2024

Hello!

Trying to configure tortoise GIT in Linux System

NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.9 (Maipo)"
My steps

1. Enable [write-access](http://docs.intersystems.com/ens20151/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?K…) to CACHELIB database via the Management Portal. (This is required for csp-page with settings import.)
2. Import project in %SYS:

    %SYS> do $system.OBJ.ImportDir("/arch/cache-tort-git-master/","*.xml","ck",,1)

3. Now you can disable write-access to CACHELIB.
4. In Management Portal select the new %SourceControl.

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Question Alan Watts · Jan 2, 2024

We are trying to use Git for Source Code control in our existing application. Currently all Source Control is a manual process. We are running IRIS on a Windows server. The git extension has been installed and initial configuration done. We do get the git tab in Studio. We keep getting the following error:

Git Status:
fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at 'C:/KBS/dev/server/db'
'C:/KBS/dev/server/db' is owned by:
'S-1-1-0'
but the current user is:
'S-1-5-18'
To add an exception for this directory, call: git config --global --add safe.directory C:/KBS/dev/server/db.

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Question Mathew Rimmington · Jan 24, 2024

In VS Code using the InterSystems ObjectScript extensions, I'd like the indentation applied to match that of IRIS Studio. Specifically for comments and dot syntax, I'd like pressing enter (carriage return) to preserve the current dot depth and same comment beginning.

In IRIS Studio after changing the indentation settings to custom using " \t.

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Question Mathew Rimmington · Jan 17, 2024

The company I work for have a repository for one of our products which already contains both InterSystems and non-InterSystems source code. I'm in the process of trying to migrate us over to using VSCode to edit the InterSystems source but am stuck on some issues surrounding the files on disk and the routines in the IRIS instance.

The folder structure inside the repo is \appname\src\database. Directly underneath the database folder is all of our InterSystems source code. If I add a new routine to the root of the database folder called ROUTINEA.

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Question Alan Watts · Oct 31, 2023

I am trying to use git-source-control with IRIS. 

Things are moving along well. I have installed git, ipm/ zpm, git-source-control. I have done the initial configuration and initialized the repository. I am hoping there is some documentation available to describe how to use this within Studio. I see a new option on my toolbar labeled "Git". It gives me options Status, Settings, Launch Git UI, Push to remote branch, Fetch from remote, Pull changes from remote branch, Create a new branch, Check out an existing branch, Export All, Export All (Force), Import All, and Import All (Force).

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Question Jason Jones · Jul 26, 2023

This question originally appeared in the comments of the article: Git for Shared Development Environments
 

I am trying to implement this for my Department of Veterans Affairs development group, the problem I have is, there seems to be no way to keep each package's repo separate. For projects in VA, it is very important (and it's also much more practical from a working perspective) to have a separate GitHub repo for each project, and for us in IRIS a project is a package more or less.

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