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Visual Studio Tools for Git

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This looks really good. At work we're using Git with GitHub Enterprise, and while training has solved most problems there's still the occasional complaint about the tools.

I hope this works well in the VS workflow, Microsoft are making some really great steps in the dev tools space.

I have to see yet good SCM (I use mainly P4 at work, with little git) integration in Visual Studio. I've tried two or three different Perforce ones, and over the time they stop working.

Checking out from the command line, or simple shortcut to do it.

There are no good source control integrations for Visual Studio. The whole system is just fundamentally broken. If you're not convinced - I mean you in general, dear reader, malkia clearly has this figured out ;) - all I have to say to you is, "LOL binding root".

Over the years, I've managed to convince several people to give up Visual Studio source control integration, and, without fail, it takes them two days, at most, to realise that this one small step has made their lives MEASURABLY BETTER. After weeks, maybe months of laughing at my Alt+Tabbing to Alien Brain to check files out, or fumbling with p4v, they find out that this is still better than dicking about with whatever crap Visual Studio is pulling on you today.

I find "Git Source Control Provider" to be a very decent plugin to work with. What's so wrong about it ?

Well, I'm guilty of shooting my mouth off about something I haven't revisited recently, so perhaps things are better these days. I haven't used source control integration with VS2010 or VS2012. Sometimes, when I find something to suck, I still revisit it every now and again, just in case it's since improved. The Visual Studio source control integration experience was just so reliably, hellishly awful that I never saw the need.

(The experience could well be better if you have a distributed system. Much of the plugins' flakiness seemed to be come from having to talk to a server (downtime or network connectivity problems always caused issues), and from the maintenance of accurate check in/check out information - both non-issues with a distributed system.)

Have used both ankhSVN [1] w/ VS2008 extensively over the last few years and lately using Git Source Control Provider [2] w/ VS2010. Both tools have been excellent for me, have very rarely needed to drop down to external tools. YMMV

[1] http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/ [2] http://gitscc.codeplex.com/

I wonder how this will work with SSH keys. I've been using Git Extensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) with VS 2010 for a while now and have been pretty happy with it, but it has taken a long time for the SSH key support to get to a usable place.

I keep my privates in the .ssh folder within my user directory. TortoiseGit and Git look there. The only thing odd I have to do is use putty to convert the key to the format used by Tortoise.

(Libgit2 contributer here.) Currently, SSH support is in-progress in libgit2 (what all of this is built on), so there is no dealing with keys right now. :) Once the API is in place, it should be fairly straightforward for the VS team to deal with keys in a user-friendly way.

Now we have git, MVC 4 (now open source) and better unit testing support. Makes me think these are the results of some kind of long fought battle by a small group of progressives inside Microsoft.

Of course, that's just my imagination.

In my opinion in git commit history is central and file tree is secondary. Something like GitExtensions serves me better than Git SourceControl Provider or TFS until they reallize about it.

I'm not smart enough to understand most of this, but it looks neat. Does this mean you can use Git from VS without paying for Team Foundation Server?

Yes

That's awesome. Thanks!

nice!

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