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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by Watabou on Sunday January 11, 2015 @05:51AM (#8869649)
git != Github.

Github just hosts git repositories. You can use git and not host on Github.

They were using git, but hosting the repository on CodePlex.

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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by thesimon on Sunday January 11, 2015 @06:05AM (#8869668)
>We are moving our code to GitHub as well as switching to use git internally

But they were using a different tool internally.

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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by taspeotis on Sunday January 11, 2015 @06:18AM (#8869687)
Probably TFS, which Microsoft use quite a bit internally [1].

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/08/20/t...

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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by josteink on Sunday January 11, 2015 @08:08AM (#8869862)
> Probably TFS, which Microsoft use quite a bit internally

But seemingly less and less so, especially in the SDK-teams. Which is definitely interesting.

If Microsoft's own SDK-developers don't want to use Microsoft's own source-control and ALM-system, but rather prefers Github, what signals does that send? I would sayed mixed at best.

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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by ethomson on Sunday January 11, 2015 @10:50AM (#8870233)
Well, we use GitHub to host our git repositories for open source and public projects. We use TFS to host our git repositories that are private and closed source.

GitHub does a great job hosting open source projects. TFS doesn't. I don't think this is a mixed message, we're using the right git hosting service for the job.

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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by chii on Sunday January 11, 2015 @09:08AM (#8869996)
it's an open secret that TFS sucks ass. I dont think anything is going to change that attitude - they might as well use something better, and hence the move.
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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by RyJones on Sunday January 11, 2015 @10:39AM (#8870206)
Not much of a secret. There was open revolt when we were forced to switch in MSN.
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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by tracker1 on Monday January 12, 2015 @06:22AM (#8873312)
It isn't all bad, just a bit painful to administrate... that said, iirc quite a few devs at MS started using git for local versioning long before TFS added support for git.
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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by farresito on Sunday January 11, 2015 @07:50AM (#8869837)
They were not using git. It clearly says in the text that they are switching to git internally, as well.
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Re:We are moving the Roslyn code to GitHub by Watabou on Sunday January 11, 2015 @05:49PM (#8871648)
Oh, you're right. I saw git files in their repository and assumed they were already using git: https://roslyn.codeplex.com
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