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Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by krishoog on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:21AM (#13559930)
Does this article imply that Microsoft itself is also moving towards Git? Instead of e.g. using their own product like TFS?
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by daigoba66 on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:32AM (#13559998)
TFS 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".

Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by vtbassmatt on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:40AM (#13560051)
Not 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.

Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by sterwill on Friday February 03, 2017 @12:15PM (#13561353)
Are 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.

Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by vtbassmatt on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:38PM (#13565066)
Ha, fair point :)
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by UK-AL on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:02AM (#13560183)
Just to say, I'm really liking modern VSTS.
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by vtbassmatt on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:10AM (#13560256)
Thank you!
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by jeremyepling on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:24PM (#13564262)
I'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.

Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by hobarrera on Friday February 03, 2017 @06:42PM (#13564390)
Any comments on why you picked GitHub (propietary) instead of GitLab (FLOSS) for FLOSS projects?
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by sdesol on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:03PM (#13564899)
I 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.

Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by ohitsdom on Friday February 03, 2017 @10:21AM (#13560334)
Reading 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.
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by warcode on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:29AM (#13559981)
Team Foundation Server supports both git and TFSVC.
Re:Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System by justinlaster on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:29AM (#13559983)
You can use TFS with Git. Git will act as the underlying SCM.