Retrieve an element level with Bridge for Git

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

Is it possible to create the Bridge for Git inventory with the whole version level history of elements?
Is it possible to RETRIEVE a particular version level of an element in Bridge for Git? 

Environment

Release : 18.1

Resolution

Bridge for Git does not currently extract/synchronize the entire history of each element. But other tools allow such access/reference.

It is actually possible to retrieve a specific version from history.

Using the Endevor plug-in for Zowe CLI, you would run the following:

zowe endevor retrieve element <elemname> --environment ENVNAME --stage-number <STAGE> --sys SYSNAME --sub SUBNAME --type <TYPE> --element-version <VERSION> --level <LEVEL>

To identify the particular version of element that should be retrieved, run a print elements command with option history, check the source level history and then run the above with the right version level information.

Additional Information

Note:
With respect to Bridge for Git, there is an item in the development backlog for mappings with history, but it is a longer-term item and could be very resource intensive (if a mapping has 1000s of elements, the corresponding history would be significant).