Get Your Power BI Reports AI-Ready with GitHub

A beginner-friendly setup walkthrough for getting a Power BI project into a GitHub repository so you can safely bring AI into your reporting workflow, with rollback and visible diffs as the safety net. Related videos Save Power BI Reports as Text Files (And Why AI Loves It) —    • Power BI as Code: The Setup AI Needs for Y...   What you'll learn Install Git and Visual Studio Code and configure Git with your name and email Create a GitHub repository and clone it locally with VS Code Save an existing Power BI report as a Power BI project (PBIP) inside the repo Use a .gitignore to keep the local data cache out of the repository Run a full lifecycle pass: branch, add a DAX measure, view the diff, commit, sync, and merge a pull request Covered GitHub account setup, Visual Studio Code, Git installation, git config global user.name and user.email, repository creation, cloning, PBIP save-as, .gitignore and cache.abf exclusion, branches, DAX measure changes, diffs, commits, sync, pull requests Tools Power BI Desktop Visual Studio Code — https://code.visualstudio.com/download Git — https://git-scm.com GitHub (free account) — https://github.com Prerequisites A Power BI report saved as a Power BI project (PBIP) — see the prior video below if you haven't done this yet A Windows machine where you can install Visual Studio Code and Git No source control experience required Chapters 0:00 — Why source control makes AI safe to use 1:25 — What we'll build in this video 1:51 — The three tools you need 4:49 — Signing into VS Code with GitHub 6:02 — Introducing yourself to Git: user.name and user.email 7:02 — Creating the GitHub repository 9:50 — Cloning the repo into VS Code 12:00 — Saving the report as a Power BI project 12:47 — The .gitignore and why cache.abf stays out 14:08 — First commit and sync to GitHub 16:00 — Branching to make a change in isolation 17:56 — Adding a DAX measure and viewing the diff 20:08 — Commit, sync, and merge the pull request 21:59 — Letting AI run the git commands for you