Adding a Git repository to the z/OS Projects view
By adding your Git repository to the z/OS Projects view, you can use all of the IBM® Developer for z/OS® tools for enterprise development, Dependency Based Build (DBB), unit testing, and debugging with your repository files. If you did not already create z/OS projects when you cloned a Git repository, you can add them from the Working Tree folder of a cloned repository.
Before you start
Clone or create a Git repository by using the EGit tools in the Git
Repository view. For more information, see these topics:
Creating a project
The source files in a cloned Git repository are located in the Working Tree folder. The Working Tree subfolders are referred to as applications. You can add the entire contents of a Git repository to a z/OS project, or you can add one or more applications.
- Add a Git repository to the Git Repositories view. For instructions, see Adding a repository in the EGit User Guide.
- In the Git Repositories view, right-click a repository or an application folder and click Create a z/OS Project. The Git repository or folder is added to the z/OS Projects view.
- To see the new project, click the z/OS Projects tab. The following
demonstration includes the steps for adding a Git repository to the Git
Repositories view.
Importing a Git repository into a z/OS project creates a
.project file in the root folder of the project:
- If you import an entire repository, the .project file is added to the root folder of the project.
- If you import one or more applications from the Working Tree folder, each application becomes a project, and the .project file is added to the root folder of each project.
The .project file defines the application as an
Eclipse project. In this example, the 
<natures> attribute contains two values:- com.ibm.ft.ui.views.project.navigator.local defines the folder as a local z/OS project. This attribute enables the z/OS integrated development environment tools that are available in the z/OS Projects view.
- com.ibm.ftt.dbbz.integration.dbbzprojectnature defines the folder as a DBBz project. This attribute enables the DBBz tools that are available in the z/OS Projects view.