Application developers can pull changes from a linked GIT repository to apply remote changes to the local instance.

Before you begin

Important: You've landed at the legacy version of Studio, which will be supported until the Australia release in Q1 2026. Try building and editing apps in the new version of ServiceNow Studio instead. For more information, see Building applications with ServiceNow Studio.

Procedure

Navigate to All > Source Control > Apply Remote Changes.
The following operations occur:
  • The system fetches the most recent changes from the remote repository.
  • The system applies the remote changes to the instance.
  • The system identifies any change conflicts requiring resolution.
If there are conflicts, the system displays the Resolve Conflicts window.

Delta loading is enabled by default in sys properties so your data isn't removed. You can disable this feature if you want data automatically deleted.

Note: After a Source Control Apply Remote Changes or other operation, you may encounter the error message: Skipped loading file *.xml, cannot parse the xml document, found git merge conflicts tokens. Make sure that the files in your application do not include values that the Git repository interprets as merge conflict tokens. While these aren’t actual conflicts, you should remove them anyway. Examples of these values are:

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What to do next

Resolve any change conflicts.