Help with Github In Power BI (using Visual Studio Code)

[LuizKoller]

Hello!

Im triyng to conect Power Bi in Github repo following this guide:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/projects/projects-git

However, its a little confusing. Could anyone please help me?

Can I use .pbix files or do they need to be exclusively .pbip?

How can I read a .pbix file (or .pbip) in Visual Studio like a JSON? (At least, this is how its shown in link abobe.)

It seems like a great option for version control.

Thanks for any help!

[RuiRomanoMS · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the feedback.
For source control you should use the new Power BI Project (PBIP) format, that will let you save your Power BI file (PBIX) to a folder with metadata files as text (mostly JSON). You can then open the folder using VS Code and initialize a Git Repo for source control.
Please see the following video where I demo end-to-end: https://youtu.be/OdkS7DF7ElY

[LuizKoller]

Thanks fot the help!

This is exactly what I needed!

[pvuppala]

Thank you Rui, We always appreciate all your resources from Power BI. Great work as always!

[pvuppala]

I'm looking for the same answer, we are new to using Github or version control.  Please let me know if you have any documentation or help videos on this topic.

Thanks!