Blog: Source Control

To migrate a TFS repository to a Visual Studio Team Services Git repository, just perform the following steps: Install the Git command line tools so that the tools are registered in the Windows command prompt Install the Windows package manager Chocolatey Install the command line tool git-tfs with Chocolatey: choco install gittfs Create a local directory for the new Git repository and set the command line’s currect directory to this directory Clone the TFS repository into the local directory: git tfs clone https://[TFSSERVER] $/[REPOSITORYPATH] . --ignore-branches --debug Optionally add .gitignore and .gitattributes files to your Git repository Add the VSO […] Read more...

Recently I tried to merge a Pull Request from CodePlex directly in Visual Studio. However, if the Pull Request comes from a forked repository, there is no way around using the command line tools to pull the remote branch into a local branch. It is actually very simple; just perform the following steps. Pull the changes Note: If the Pull Request’s branch is in the same repository, you can simply press on New Branch… in Visual Studio and select the appropriate branch in the drop down list. In this case you don’t need to do the next three steps. In […] Read more...