Saving and sharing your decision models using GitHub
You probably haven’t thought about it too much (other than the Ephemeral message in KIE Sandbox), but you’re currently saving decision models in local storage associated with your web browser. While this is great for getting started, it isn’t something we’d recommend for long-term use. What if your laptop gets lost—do you have a backup? How can you share decision models with a colleague? What if you realize you made a mistake and want to revert to the version you had 5 minutes ago? Local storage doesn’t easily let you do any of these things.
Luckily, the KIE Sandbox has a link to the best collaboration site available: GitHub. You may remember GitHub from Chapter 2 when we introduced the KIE and Drools projects, allowing many hundreds of developers to collaborate, share files, and navigate through different versions of their work.
GitHub has a private repository option that you can use...