Legacy - Apply remote changes
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
- 1 minute read
- Yokohama
- Building applications
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.
- Role required: admin
- Legacy - Link an application or application-customization to source control
Procedure
Navigate to
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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.
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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