Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux

Re:Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file sys... by ryanisnan on Friday November 17, 2017 @07:58PM (#15727186)

Is there a way to split a TFS repository, surely you no longer need the past 10 years of commit history on a daily basis - archive it or something?

Also how feasible is migrating from TFS to Git?

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file sys... by Merad on Saturday November 18, 2017 @12:19AM (#15727871)

Very, thanks to git-tfs [1]. My company is in the midst of a move from on premise TFS/TFVC to cloud based VSTS/git. We've run into some projects that managed to somehow mangle their branch history so to the point that we gave up and only migrated the current checkin to git, but most projects pull out the full history and all branches with no trouble.

The only real complaint I have is speed. Dunno if it's our TFS server or the nature of TFS, but every checkin pulled into git takes anywhere from 5-30 seconds. In large projects with long histories you can easily spend 30+ minutes exporting history before running into a problem that prevents the export from completing.

[1]: https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file sys... by josteink on Saturday November 18, 2017 @02:22AM (#15728135)

> In large projects with long histories you can easily spend 30+ minutes exporting history before running into a problem that prevents the export from completing.

If it makes you feel any better I had to spend two continuous weeks exporting our huge TFS monolith before I managed to have a working git copy.

But yeah, Git-TFS is a godsend.

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