Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/2d3a/709ca489-6c94-470c-8540-1451fe7c2d3a/Git4VS_220.jpg Channel 9 - Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS Martin Woodward dropped in to the studio to share the news that Git repos are now fully supported on Team Foundation Service and that Microsoft has released Visual Studio Tools for Git. You can now choose which source control system you prefer, either the centralized version control provided by Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) or the distributed version control provided by Git - while maintaining the same integrated experience provided by the Visual Studio 2012, and getting all of the ALM benefits that come with TFS. Using Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Git extension, you can connect to any Git provider, whether it's Team Foundation Service or a third party. In this short video, Martin takes us on a lightning tour of these new capabilities. If you would like to try this yourself head on over to http://tfs.visualstudio.com to get yourself an account with the Team Foundation Service, and/or download the Visual Studio Tools for Git.       en Thu, 23 May 2013 20:02:51 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 20:02:51 GMT Rev9 Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS OMG OMG OMG. This looks awesome.  I love TFS, but honestly the source control has always been one of the worst parts of it.  Now being able to use Git, but still get the benefits of work item tracking, reporting, etc. is great!

A couple questions:

1 - When will this be available for Team Foundation Server (so we can use it locally, rather than having to use the Team Foundation Service cloud).

2 - Does using a Git repo still support Check-in Policies?

posted by deadlydog

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951630831862537 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:18:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951630831862537 deadlydog Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS posted by Jack

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951637164102443 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:28:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951637164102443 Jack Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS

Is there a dependency on Team System in order to use GitHub from Visual Studio?

If I've read the linked pages correctly, no. You can create just a local Git repository when creating a project, and you can clone a project from GitHub or anywhere else.

posted by wkempf

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951678815250344 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:38:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951678815250344 wkempf Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS

, wkempf wrote

*snip*

If I've read the linked pages correctly, no. You can create just a local Git repository when creating a project, and you can clone a project from GitHub or anywhere else.

You are correct; Visual Studio Tools for Git is designed to work with any Git repository; local, Team Foundation Service, GitHub, BitBucket, etc.

posted by briankel

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951686598374221 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:50:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951686598374221 briankel Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS
Will there be some nice commit graph diagram? I think is what makes sense fog git Repos once you have non-trivial commits, (branches, submodules, etc...).

Any plan to hire Linus :P?

posted by Olmo

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951744166998721 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:26:56 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951744166998721 Olmo Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS Right now in TFS you can branch and merge code across team projects.  Will this still be possible if one team project uses TFVC and the other uses Git?

posted by deadlydog

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951749236876114 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:35:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951749236876114 deadlydog Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS This is fantastic news!  Big Smile

posted by jgen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951749386027753 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:35:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951749386027753 jgen Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @deadlydog: We've still got a way to come before we're happy enough with the features in the server to bake Git support into on premises TFS, but it will be in the "next major release of TFS" according to Brian Harry (and he's my boss so would know Wink )

We don't have an equivalent to Check-in policies yet though we are looking at the best way of doing this with DVCS workflows to keep the benefits but give the control that people want. It might be something that git calls "Git Hooks" or it might be some other mechanism - still figuring it out. Looking forward to seeing how people use the service and the VS Tools for Git to help us figure the best approach out. 

posted by martinwoodward

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951803674133184 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:06:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951803674133184 martinwoodward Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS AWESOME!!! Big Smile

posted by felix9

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951887346855214 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:25:34 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634951887346855214 felix9 Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @martinwoodward: Awesome stuff! I might have to change my alias here if you keep this kind of great work up. Office on iOS and Android? TFS & VS supporting GIT? What is the world coming to?!?!? Thanks for all of your hard work.

posted by DeathByVisualStudio

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952139394124156 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:25:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952139394124156 DeathByVisualStudio Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS I'm welling-up here. You wouldn't believe the nightmare I've had with Git on Windows with VS and the battling with (Java-centric) management about how Git is really not the amazing tool they think it is when you're a Windows/MS dev.

Suddenly we can use all the TFS ALM, the wonderful VS UI and please the Java/Mac developers. The timing is perfect.

Thank you!

posted by LukePuplett

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952311079079715 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:11:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952311079079715 LukePuplett Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS posted by Tx36

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952546691828614 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:44:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952546691828614 Tx36 Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @Olmo: Yeah - branch visualization of Git log is definitely something we're looking at.  Think we should be able to do something cool here.

posted by martinwoodward

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952642410378656 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:24:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952642410378656 martinwoodward Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @deadlydog: At the moment you need to use Git-TF to move code between Git and TFVC repos.  We're looking to invest more in that area but that's going to be something that we need to see how people use Git and TFVC together a bit first to figure out what we need to build.  With DVCS being so different from centralised version control we're probably going to want to figure out a flow that makes people the most successful at doing this.

posted by martinwoodward

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952643938663883 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:26:33 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634952643938663883 martinwoodward Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS
PaulS

posted by PaulS

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634953033759148692 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:16:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634953033759148692 PaulS Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @PaulS: Sorry if the following sounds a bit like "marketing speak" but the following is what I honestly believe...

Centralized version control is not going anywhere. There are things that DVCS is good for and things that Centralized version control is good for. We want to offer choice so that you can manage your projects with the SCM workflow of your choice and still get all the benefits of the integrated, end to end ALM provided by TFS even if you have teams that are using both TFVC and Git.

posted by martinwoodward

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634953648879870034 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:21:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634953648879870034 martinwoodward Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS Great job!

Any chance this will lead to Mercurial integration?  It would seem easy to do given the similarities with git.

posted by bondsbw

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634954660626139928 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:27:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634954660626139928 bondsbw Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS
Greetings from Venezuela country

posted by Jorge

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634954904603132036 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:14:20 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634954904603132036 Jorge Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @bondsbw: I'm afraid we're not planning on doing any Hg integration.  However, there is an open source VS plug-in here on CodePlex http://visualhg.codeplex.com/

posted by martinwoodward

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634956598010081133 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:16:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c634956598010081133 martinwoodward Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS @PaulS: I prefer centralized version control. I detest Git, in fact its the worst piece of software I have ever used, I really mean that. We have continual problems, from terrible usability/UX to reliability (it hangs or corrupts something almost weekly).

With prolific internet access (in the Western world), I can't even see why the distributed model has taken off. In particular, I can't see why Git took a hold, considering how abysmal it is.

Those I've worked with that love Git seem to be puritanical non-MS devs, working on Mac or Linux distros, don't believe in HTML email, and are more lightweight programmers, working in teams where there isn't vast amounts of daily change >500 lines/day average per dev.

I think its a hobbyist tool (even for pros). That sounds like an oxymoron, but in my current team I'm working with world professionals, but they still have never seen Visual Studio, or TFS ALM or life on the MS side, and worse, they refuse to even look, such is their 90s dislike of MS. Sometimes, I think its more like East and West Berlin, and Git is a tool from East Berlin.

posted by LukePuplett

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004119124909026 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:18:32 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004119124909026 LukePuplett Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS What I would like to see, is more centralization. A digest of new classes and members being worked on would be great, so I can see what other team members are all doing, whether someone else's work looks like something I could use and vice-versa.

posted by LukePuplett

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004139079891846 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:51:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635004139079891846 LukePuplett Re: Git Support Added to Visual Studio and TFS However this may sound a bit silly. I would like if they also have shown how to get a repository on to a lokal pc.

posted by Abdulla

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635016380312169611 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:53:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS#c635016380312169611 Abdulla