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Re: CodePlex now supports Git

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Post by recursive »

m_st wrote: post #19
noveltyaccount wrote: post #16

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I love DVCS and used Mercurial for a year exclusively, but one thing that TFS does really really well is lifecycle and issue management. The way you can put a project plan (essentially) into it as a collection of work items and then track burndown/earned-value as code checkins are occurring is really awesome. My stand-by joke is that TFS would be an awesome lifecycle management tool if only it had a good version cont…

I don't know TFS, but isn't it possible to just use the ALM tools for project management and keep using mercurial, git, svn or whatever else you prefer as VCS? Is the link between the two really required?

It's not required, but when you check code into TFS, you can associate it to a backlog task in the UI. You'd miss that.

Re: CodePlex now supports Git

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Post by edwinnathaniel »

recursive wrote: post #21
m_st wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know TFS, but isn't it possible to just use the ALM tools for project management and keep using mercurial, git, svn or whatever else you prefer as VCS? Is the link between the two really required?

It's not required, but when you check code into TFS, you can associate it to a backlog task in the UI. You'd miss that.

Most project management tools support this feature these days (JIRA, FogBugz). Association between commits and ticket/bugs/features/etc.

I believe some of them even gone further by providing a RELEASE.txt type of output if you follow their preferred way of handling releases/versioning/milestone.

Re: CodePlex now supports Git

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Post by noveltyaccount »

recursive wrote: post #21
m_st wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know TFS, but isn't it possible to just use the ALM tools for project management and keep using mercurial, git, svn or whatever else you prefer as VCS? Is the link between the two really required?

It's not required, but when you check code into TFS, you can associate it to a backlog task in the UI. You'd miss that.

Correct. I used Mercurial with Redmine and you could tag your checkins with special text "closes #39" for example. It's quite a bit more cumbersome than having a filtered query alongside your checkin dialog that you can just tick a checkbox. Especially when your development team has a, let's say, mix of skill levels.

Re: CodePlex now supports Git

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Post by wingspan »

manuletroll wrote: post #18
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #17

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How is TortioseGIT deficient compared to TortoiseHg? I would think at this point, they are sort of equivalent, but I don't have experience with Mercurial.

Well last I checked (which is now quite a while back) it seemed far less polished and stable. However I'd probably have to try it again, according to what I can see on the project's page it seems to have improved a lot.

From my recent experience (past month or so), TortoiseHG is definitely more polished than TortoiseGit. The thing I miss the most is the "Workbench", a single window that contains everything you'd need to do (commit, view history, sync, etc).

Re: CodePlex now supports Git

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Post by soc88 »

bunderbunder wrote: post #5
skrebbel wrote: post #3

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Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.

They do different things. Github excels when it comes to community & source management, but doesn't really do anything to help you set up a project home page, manage official releases, or anything like that. Codeplex is more of a Sourceforge-style "one stop project hosting" site.

I wonder how much effort it took you to ignore all the websites which are directly fed from GitHub. :-)
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