The good news is that with Visual Studio, you don't have to understand, out of the gate, how Git works, although at some point, you'll want to be acquainted with how Git works and its command line syntax. The remainder of this article assumes you have at least a working knowledge of Git. If, at the command prompt, you type git and usage guidance and a command list is echoed back, you are good to go!įigure 1: The git-scm windows download page and the command prompt to verify the git install New to Git? Figure 1 illustrates the git-scm download page and a command prompt window. Just follow the instructions and accept the defaults. In the event you don't have Git installed, navigate to.

In this article, I'm going to show you how to make Git come alive in Visual Studio - using only what Visual Studio gives you in the box. Does this mean you have to use TFS or Visual Studio Online to take advantage of Git in Visual Studio? The answer is no. To make things work with Git, Visual Studio 2013, as part of its install, also installs Git. Today, we can choose either TFS or Git for our source code control (SCC) provider on our team projects.

Today, that lack of integration is a thing of the past! Recently, Microsoft made Git a first class citizen in TFS. The problem was, unlike Team Foundation Sever (TFS), Git suffered from a lack of integration into the Visual Studio IDE. We've always been able to host our Visual Studio-based solution source code under Git.

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