Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
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Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#2When I read "Q: Does this mean Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) is dead?
A: Not for a second."
The thing that comes to mind is a politician saying "I'm not thinking about resigning". His resignation has just become nearly inevitable.
I have more belief in the statement about Microsoft working with open source, or at least MS Developer Division working with open source.
On the whole this looks cool, though VS integration will have to be very good to tempt me away from git bash and TortoiseGit.
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#3I've been using Git from command line with my visual studio projects already. Integration with TFS is a welcome change. Although I wonder how much effort Microsoft has to go through to change TFS's underlying SVN architecture to support Git. I will be the first one to try this and report.
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#4This is a great step. Now, will they stop alienating developers by omitting crucial tools like PIX and ATL/MFC headers from the free versions of their development tools? Or are they still under the impression that their platform is powerful enough that developers should pay them hundreds of dollars for the privilege of writing apps for it?
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#5Great to see, for certain, not just for VS and Git, but for distributed version control systems in general.
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#6On a lighter note, TFS not supporting Git was always our excuse to use private repos on GitHub/BitButcket within our Microsoft-heavy organization, cool features and all.
I fear those days are over :( .
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#7This is a great step. Now, will they stop alienating developers by omitting crucial tools like PIX and ATL/MFC headers from the free versions of their development tools? Or are they still under the impression that their platform is powerful enough that developers should pay them hundreds of dollars for the privilege of writing apps for it?
How are ATL and MFC crucial in 2013?
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#8This is a great step. Now, will they stop alienating developers by omitting crucial tools like PIX and ATL/MFC headers from the free versions of their development tools? Or are they still under the impression that their platform is powerful enough that developers should pay them hundreds of dollars for the privilege of writing apps for it?
How are ATL and MFC crucial in 2013?
If you wish to make a Visual Studio style application, there are few quicker options than MFC. You get a lot of functionality just with the wizard generated app.
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#9When I read "Q: Does this mean Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) is dead? A: Not for a second." The thing that comes to mind is a politician saying "I'm not thinking about resigning". His resignation has just become nearly inevitable. I have more belief in the statement about Microsoft working with open source, or at least MS Developer Division working with open source. On the whole this looks cool, though VS in…
I'd never imagine a git UI that totally replaces the CLI (/git bash), but that doesn't mean you can't benefit from IDE integration alongside it.
MS's enterprise customers already on TFVC would be mighty ticked if they outright killed or deprecated it; wouldn't be terribly surprised if development slowed down though.
Re: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server will have Git support
#10I've been using Git from command line with my visual studio projects already. Integration with TFS is a welcome change. Although I wonder how much effort Microsoft has to go through to change TFS's underlying SVN architecture to support Git. I will be the first one to try this and report.
TFS doesn't have an underlying SVN architecture - Team Foundation Version Control (the centralized version control tooling that was the the only version control services available through TFS 2012) is unrelated to SVN. There are no changes here to support git - git repositories are first-class citizens, hosted separately from the existing centralized version control services.