Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by fekberg » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 5:50 PM UTC

Visual Studio Tools for Git
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Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by luisrudge » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

nice!

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by sitharus » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 6:22 PM UTC

This looks really good. At work we're using Git with GitHub Enterprise, and while training has solved most problems there's still the occasional complaint about the tools.

I hope this works well in the VS workflow, Microsoft are making some really great steps in the dev tools space.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by jordoh » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

I wonder how this will work with SSH keys. I've been using Git Extensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) with VS 2010 for a while now and have been pretty happy with it, but it has taken a long time for the SSH key support to get to a usable place.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by adandy » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 6:37 PM UTC

jordoh wrote: post #4

I wonder how this will work with SSH keys. I've been using Git Extensions ( http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/ ) with VS 2010 for a while now and have been pretty happy with it, but it has taken a long time for the SSH key support to get to a usable place.

I keep my privates in the .ssh folder within my user directory. TortoiseGit and Git look there. The only thing odd I have to do is use putty to convert the key to the format used by Tortoise.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by Splendor » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC

I'm not smart enough to understand most of this, but it looks neat. Does this mean you can use Git from VS without paying for Team Foundation Server?

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by malkia » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

I have to see yet good SCM (I use mainly P4 at work, with little git) integration in Visual Studio. I've tried two or three different Perforce ones, and over the time they stop working.

Checking out from the command line, or simple shortcut to do it.

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by sitharus » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

Splendor wrote: post #6

I'm not smart enough to understand most of this, but it looks neat. Does this mean you can use Git from VS without paying for Team Foundation Server?

Yes

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by Splendor » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

sitharus wrote: post #8

Splendor wrote: post #6

I'm not smart enough to understand most of this, but it looks neat. Does this mean you can use Git from VS without paying for Team Foundation Server?

Yes

That's awesome. Thanks!

Re: Visual Studio Tools for Git

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Post by to3m » Wed, Jan 30, 2013, 7:56 PM UTC

malkia wrote: post #7

I have to see yet good SCM (I use mainly P4 at work, with little git) integration in Visual Studio. I've tried two or three different Perforce ones, and over the time they stop working. Checking out from the command line, or simple shortcut to do it.

There are no good source control integrations for Visual Studio. The whole system is just fundamentally broken. If you're not convinced - I mean you in general, dear reader, malkia clearly has this figured out ;) - all I have to say to you is, "LOL binding root".

Over the years, I've managed to convince several people to give up Visual Studio source control integration, and, without fail, it takes them two days, at most, to realise that this one small step has made their lives MEASURABLY BETTER. After weeks, maybe months of laughing at my Alt+Tabbing to Alien Brain to check files out, or fumbling with p4v, they find out that this is still better than dicking about with whatever crap Visual Studio is pulling on you today.