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Nice, didn't know that. I'm a .NET guy though and have only used SVN and TFS at work, so now I can use TFS at home as well. Probably should learn Git with my ne

Nice, didn't know that. I'm a .NET guy though and have only used SVN and TFS at work, so now I can use TFS at home as well. Probably should learn Git with my next project...

giancarlostoro 11y ago
Git comes with Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2013, so it's a lot more seamless.
- tracker1 11y ago
  Though iirc git+ssh was broken... Not sure if it still is.
josteink 11y ago
> Probably should learn Git with my next project... Do it. And I'm saying that as your fellow .net guy. The only downside is that you will start hating TFS at work for being so God damn dinosaury afterwards ;)
- gnud 11y ago
  git-tfs[0] is excellent. Amaze your co-workers by actually usefully merging between branches, and work without the dreaded check-out! 0: http://git-tfs.com/ http://git-tfs.com/
  - josteink 11y ago
    I've looked at similar stuff before[1], but it broke under the immense pressure of our enormous branches. It was called git-tf and was java based. This looks similar, but the following line made me want to give it a shot: git-tfs is designed to work outside of any existing TFS workspaces. God I hate TFS workspaces. Archaic piece of shit. [1] https://gittf.codeplex.com/ https://gittf.codeplex.com/
louthy 11y ago
I would definitely move to Git if you have the choice. TFS is a dog compared to Git. And don't even get me started on the shambolic 'local workspace' in TFS, how it's possible to make local access slower than server access is beyond me.
BigChiefSmokem 11y ago
From what I understand, most people at Microsoft use Git - not TFS. The true power of Git shows itself when working on huge projects with a lot of developers and release branches.
- ianceicys 11y ago
  Actually most people use TFS at Microsoft. Some 61,777 Microsoft employees as of last month were using actively using TFS(VSO - The cloud offering of TFS). Now the version control part of TFS is TFSVC and yes TFS does have the ability to host Git repos, but the number of Git repos at Microsoft is significantly, significantly smaller than then number of TFSVC based projects. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/06/03/team-foundation-server-and-vs-online-adoption-at-microsoft.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/06/03/team-found... Microsoft as a whole "gets" the need to move to better version control tools such as Git....but the larger products will take decades to move off of the internal version control tooling for example: Windows (Perforce\Product Depo), Office (Perforce\Product Depo), SQL Server (TFVC), etc.
mattmanser 11y ago
TFS is fucking awful. And I do not say that lightly. It's really, really fucking awful. There's plenty of MS stuff i like, but TFS, no. That you'd want to use it at home makes me question your sanity.
baldfat 11y ago
https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 Is a good quick 15 minute tutorial
sorenjan 11y ago
Atlassian have some really nice Git tutorials with comparisons to the svn workflow. https://www.atlassian.com/git/ https://www.atlassian.com/git/

Nice, didn't know that. I'm a .NET guy though and have only used SVN and TFS at work, so now I can use TFS at home as well. Probably should learn Git with my next project...

giancarlostoro 11y ago

Git comes with Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2013, so it's a lot more seamless.

tracker1 11y ago
Though iirc git+ssh was broken... Not sure if it still is.

josteink 11y ago

> Probably should learn Git with my next project... Do it. And I'm saying that as your fellow .net guy. The only downside is that you will start hating TFS at work for being so God damn dinosaury afterwards ;)

gnud 11y ago
git-tfs[0] is excellent. Amaze your co-workers by actually usefully merging between branches, and work without the dreaded check-out! 0: http://git-tfs.com/ http://git-tfs.com/
- josteink 11y ago
  I've looked at similar stuff before[1], but it broke under the immense pressure of our enormous branches. It was called git-tf and was java based. This looks similar, but the following line made me want to give it a shot: git-tfs is designed to work outside of any existing TFS workspaces. God I hate TFS workspaces. Archaic piece of shit. [1] https://gittf.codeplex.com/ https://gittf.codeplex.com/

louthy 11y ago

I would definitely move to Git if you have the choice. TFS is a dog compared to Git. And don't even get me started on the shambolic 'local workspace' in TFS, how it's possible to make local access slower than server access is beyond me.

BigChiefSmokem 11y ago

From what I understand, most people at Microsoft use Git - not TFS. The true power of Git shows itself when working on huge projects with a lot of developers and release branches.

ianceicys 11y ago
Actually most people use TFS at Microsoft. Some 61,777 Microsoft employees as of last month were using actively using TFS(VSO - The cloud offering of TFS). Now the version control part of TFS is TFSVC and yes TFS does have the ability to host Git repos, but the number of Git repos at Microsoft is significantly, significantly smaller than then number of TFSVC based projects. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/06/03/team-foundation-server-and-vs-online-adoption-at-microsoft.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/06/03/team-found... Microsoft as a whole "gets" the need to move to better version control tools such as Git....but the larger products will take decades to move off of the internal version control tooling for example: Windows (Perforce\Product Depo), Office (Perforce\Product Depo), SQL Server (TFVC), etc.

mattmanser 11y ago

TFS is fucking awful. And I do not say that lightly. It's really, really fucking awful. There's plenty of MS stuff i like, but TFS, no. That you'd want to use it at home makes me question your sanity.

baldfat 11y ago

https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 Is a good quick 15 minute tutorial

sorenjan 11y ago

Atlassian have some really nice Git tutorials with comparisons to the svn workflow. https://www.atlassian.com/git/ https://www.atlassian.com/git/