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• You shouldn’t use the use the Local repository as a source of Compliance Rules outside of the MettleCI Workbench context. In particular, you shouldn’t attempt to reference a Local repository in your build (CI/CD) pipeline (it’ll work, but it’s not good practice).

• The use of a Local Compliance repository does not easily support the collaborative development or maintenance of Compliance rules. For that purpose it is recommended to host your Compliance repository as a Remote Git repository served by a Git server.

For these reasons we recommended you always use Remote Git repositories for managing your Compliance rules.

Creating your Local Repository

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When you’re ready to collaborate on Compliance Rule development, or just what to have better governance over your Compliance Rules, you may migrate your Local Git repository to a shared Remote Git repository.