Announcing Git Integration with TFS

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eulee — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:44:45 GMT

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MattB — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:29:08 GMT

I'd like to vote for Mercurial as well. GIT seems to get all the press but Mercurial easily goes toe to toe with it.

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Matthew Mitrik (MS) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:57:57 GMT

@Matthew - You can download and MP4 of the video on the Channel9 site: channel9.msdn.com/.../Announcing-git-tf-Combining-the-local-repository-of-Git-with-the-integrated-ALM-of-TFS

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Matthew — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:08:15 GMT

I'd love to see the video, but Chrome 64-bit version 23.0.1271.97 on Mac OS X Lion version 10.7.5 says "Silverlight Plug-in has crashed."

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Matthew Mitrik (MS) — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:46:24 GMT

@Phil - Thanks for the feedback! As for the default of deep or shallow - we don't yet have a lot of evidence to support which option users really want as the default. Something that would help would be if you opened an issue on the CodePlex project page for Git-TF so users can show their support for the issue by voting. Parsing the commit message for metadata to associate work items is a good feature suggestion, and I would also suggest you open an issue for that on CodePlex: http://gittf.codeplex.com

Thanks!

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Jim Cushing — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:07:20 GMT

@Mike Bridge:

DVCS stands for Distributed Version Control System. Git is one popular DVCS; Mercurial is another, and there are others, as well.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems you're equating DVCS with TFS, which is not correct. That aside, I agree with you: developers prefer DVCS, but corporate/department policy may dictate using a system like TFS. Projects like git-tf (or git-tfs) nicely bridge these two worlds: The developers and suits both get what they want.

The workflow that we're using is, developers use Git for their day-to-day development, mostly as they would if TFS wasn't deployed. But, CI and deployment is done using TFS for various reasons. Git-tf helps us sync TFS with Git to bridge this gap. Right now, we're syncing on a periodic basis, but we plan to automate this so whenever a developer pushes to our "central" git server (using the excellent Gitlab project, incidentally), it'll sync to TFS.

So far, the approach is working well, and we owe thanks to git-tf to make this possible.

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Brian Harry MS — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:09:07 GMT

Thanks for the feedback Phil.

Brian

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Phil — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:38:21 GMT

Oh! And I forgot to tell what I found not very good about git-tf....

I don't like the fact that all your local commits end on only one commit by default on the tfs server. I think all the commits should be replicated (like done with the option --deep) BY DEFAULT! Git permit to modify, and organize your commits to do beautiful commits and after commit them on the server.

The other thing is if you replicate all the commits on the server you can't associate or resolve diffent workitems at each commits. Git-tfs do that well by adding meta data in commit message like "git-tfs-associate:[N°Commit]".

If you change that, it could be very interseting. And if you developped a good plugin for GitExtension (the better GUI for Git on Windows), it will be perfect! Look at the git-tfs plugin ( github.com/.../git-tfs-gitextensions-plugin ), it should be quite similar.

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Mike Bridge — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:33:27 GMT

"Most of your dev team is using our Visual Studio or Eclipse integration and perfectly happy. At the same time, you’ve got a few people who want or need to use Git."

I think your assumption that people use DVCS because they like it and git because they have to is wrong. I would strongly suspect it's the other way around---most people who use git choose it freely because for open source projects, but those who are stuck with DVCS use it because their employer is telling them to. Or they assume it will work better with their existing MS products and don't know any better.

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Caio Proiete — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:51:16 GMT

I can't say thank you enough! It's awesome to finally have official support for using Git integrated with TFS!! THANK YOU!!!!