Using a Git repository in Snowflake

You can integrate your remote Git repository with Snowflake so that files from the repository are synchronized to a special kind of stage called a repository stage. The repository stage acts as a local Git repository with a full clone of the remote repository, including branches, tags, and commits.

After you’ve created the repository stage, you can refer in Snowflake code to repository files on the repository stage. For example, when creating a stored procedure, you can import a file from the repository stage and use it as the procedure’s handler.

With an integrated Git repository, you can do the following:

  • Fetch files from your remote Git repository to a Snowflake repository stage for use in Snowflake applications.

    The files in the repository stage represent a full clone of the repository that you can refresh as the repository changes.

  • Interact with the repository stage, viewing information about branches and tags.

  • From a repository stage synchronized from your remote repository, import files into code you execute in Snowflake.

    For example, you can write procedures and user-defined functions (UDFs) whose handler code is held by the repository stage synchronized from the repository.

  • In Snowflake, use files from any branch, tag, or commit.

How Snowflake works with a Git repository

With a remote Git repository integrated with your Snowflake account, you synchronize files from the remote repository to a repository stage in Snowflake. To access a file in Snowflake, you refer to it on the repository stage. For more information about using repository files, see Use a Git repository file as a stored procedure handler.

Diagram showing Git repository exchanging files with development tools and Snowflake.

Snowflake repository stage

A repository stage is the Snowflake representation of a repository. Like a local Git repository, it is a full clone with all branches, tags, and commits from the remote repository.

After repository contents are on the repository stage, you can reference files there as you would any other file on a stage. Note that while you can execute GET commands against a repository stage, most other ordinary stage commands aren’t applicable to a repository stage.

You can perform operations similar to those you perform with Git commands in a local repository, including:

A repository stage is a special kind of stage with additional properties specific to the repository’s integration with Snowflake. These properties include:

  • Location of Git repository origin.

  • A secret (if needed) that contains credentials for authenticating.

  • A Snowflake API integration that specifies how Snowflake should interact with the Git API.

For more information, see View repository stage properties.

Git repository and development tools

After you integrate your repository with Snowflake, you can continue using your development tools and local repository as before. In other words, Snowflake becomes another client of your repository separate from your local repository.

Supported platforms

You can currently integrate Git repositories on the following Git platforms:

  • GitHub

  • GitLab

  • BitBucket

  • Azure DevOps

References

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