Developer mode & git for reports with live connection

Thanks for the feedback.

A few follow ups:
- Why those report developers need to go to Desktop and dont edit/develop the reports in the service? 

- Are those report developers confortable enough with the git concepts: cloning, merge, commit, push? If not, the download PBIX & upload/publish may be a better and simpler alternative.

- If we always export the report with a connection to the model in the workspace, let's say you have 1 model and 2 reports, what would be your expectation if you sync that git branch to a new empty workpace? It creates the model and the 2 reports connected to the previous workspace?

>> Having a report with a live connection switch to a local data model makes no sense

The report does not switch to a local mode. Contrary to PBIX, in PBIP the report is completely separated from the model (they are two distinct folders). When you publish back to the service, using Git, the relative/local connection is resolved to a service connection.

>> Then, I must edit a JSON file (or change a setting) to switch to the expected behavior.

I agree, it should not require a JSON file edit, in the future we want to have a simple UI for this.