Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by tootie on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:02PM (#17208843)

Source Safe is ancient. TFS is their new jam and it's pretty solid. Especially if you're in the Visual Studio and Azure world.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by WorldMaker on Friday June 01, 2018 @03:30PM (#17209152)

TFS (or more accurately TFVC) is old news. Git is their new jam and it's pretty solid. ;)

(Not entirely a joke. The Windows team has moved to git, which is a fascinating sign of the times.)

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by foepys on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:08PM (#17209627)

TFVC is being outphased. Microsoft doesn't want to openly say it but everything in MS' docs is pushing Git. When you have an on-prem TFS installation, the default version control for new projects is Git. Visual Studio Team Services doesn't allow to import anything into TFVC, only into Git. Visual Studio lists Git first, when you want to add version control. Visual Studio Code makes working with Git a lot easier than working with TFVC.

TFS as the development process management solution will live on as an on-prem service, but TFVC is unofficially feature-complete and in the maintenance phase.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by simplyinfinity on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:25PM (#17209829)

Oh yes... i especially love it when my co-worker locks 10 000 files and goes on 2 week vacation... can't merge for days

I also love it how it detects changes on unchanged files ( they look at last modified timestamp) and you can't undo the unchanged unless you install TFPT and google for a bit for the command.

I also love it how when doing merges sometimes you have 10 000 conflicts even tho the files are unchanged :)

TFVC is bad and it should die... I'm glad they took up on git... now all i have to do is train my team on how to use git :)

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