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Does this article imply that Microsoft itself is also moving towards Git? Instead of e.g. using their own product like TFS?
by krishoog 10y ago
Does this article imply that Microsoft itself is also moving towards Git? Instead of e.g. using their own product like TFS?
- warcode 10y agoTeam Foundation Server supports both git and TFSVC.
- justinlaster 10y agoYou can use TFS with Git. Git will act as the underlying SCM.
- daigoba66 10y agoTFS has first-class support for Git repositories (in addition to the classic TFSVC repositories). So yes, they're moving more and more to Git. But no, they're not abandoning TFS. Interestingly, however, most of their "open source" efforts (.NET, C#, and related) are all on GitHub rather than their own hosted offerings: CodePlex (which is basically dead) or "Visual Studio Team Services".
- vtbassmatt 10y agoNot sure why Visual Studio Team Services is in scare quotes -- that's the product's name. And it's not an open source hosting service, which handily explains why Microsoft's open source isn't hosted there. Disclosure: I'm a PM on VSTS/TFS, and I own part of version control.
- UK-AL 10y agoJust to say, I'm really liking modern VSTS.
- vtbassmatt 10y agoThank you!
- sterwill 10y agoAre those scare quotes or just regular old quotes? TFS and associated technologies have been through a lot of names (Visual Studio Team System, TFS, Team Services, and probably a few I can't remember). Disclaimer: used to work on TFS team.
- vtbassmatt 10y agoHa, fair point :)
- ohitsdom 10y agoReading release notes of TFS, they seem to be putting much more effort into improving integration with Git compared with TFVC. This may be just to catch up to acheive parity with TFVC in TFS, but it was enough for me to abandon TFVC for Git in all new projects.
- jeremyepling 10y agoI'm a Microsoft employee on the Git team. Microsoft is moving to Git and we use Team Services / TFS as our Git server for all private repositories. GitHub is only used for OSS since that's where the OSS community is.
- hobarrera 10y agoAny comments on why you picked GitHub (propietary) instead of GitLab (FLOSS) for FLOSS projects?
- sdesol 10y agoI believe this, pretty much summed up why > that's where the OSS community is It's also not just the community, but GitHub provides significantly better integration support, than GitLab. Since GitHub has such a robust API, it's easier to create bots and what not, to help better manage large open source projects.