If you are using Visual Studio plugin for Git, but you have also configured Git with MSys git, probably you could be surprised by some Visual Studio behavior. The most obvious one is that commits are done using the wrong user.name and user.email configuration as I’ve described in Visual Studio Tools for Git, a primer, [...]

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If you installed Update 2 CTP 4 (now it has go-live and supports upgrade to RTM) you should also install the Visual Studio Tools for Git that permits to work with Git repository directly from a Team Explorer extension. You can work with GitHub or whatever Git hosting you like and surely you can work [...]

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Some weeks are passed from the announcement of TF Service support to Git based Team Projects, and Git is becoming first class citizen in the Team Foundation Server environment. Last week the latest update to TF Service introduced the ability to create build for Git Based Repository. If you compare to a standard build (based [...]

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In a previous post called “Move a TFService source contorl to TF Service Git based Team Project” I explained how to simple move sources from a standard TF Service project to another one based on Git. Now after a push if I issue a log I got this. Figure 1: Origin_tfs/tfs branch in my log? [...]

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Even if we are still in preview, Git support in TF Service already has some nice integration between git and all the rest of the world of TFS. As an example suppose you have a Work Item you are working to. Figure 1: Simple Work Item in web interface Now suppose you want to associate [...]

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