1. Git for Visual Studio Developers MARTIN KULOV, ASE

3. Why Git
Git is synonym for DVCS
DVCS workflows to be added in TFS

4. Why DVCS
It is top UserVoice request It is how OSS community work It is best suitable for distributed teams

5. Distributed VCS
Can have “blessed” repo Provide “offline” history Has cheap branching Enable “snapshots”

6. Centralized VCS
Must use one server Working with history requires Internet Somewhat expensive branching

7. Is TFVC dead?
“Not for a second.” -Brian Harry, 30 Jan 2013 “It’s simply not accurate.” -B. Harry, 14 Apr 2014 “No, it is not.” -Brian Harry, 12 Mar 2015

8. State of ALM
The best distributed version control experience The best centralized version control experience Feature parity is being worked on

9. Enterprise Git
Easy installation and management High availability and scale Integration authentication Enhanced permissions ALM integration Localization Support

10. Git in Visual Studio Create, clone repo Push, pull, sync Branching
Work Item linking
“Flattened” history

11. BASIC COMMANDS

12. Create repo
init (“disconnected”) clone (“connected”)

13. Work with changes
add, commit (“local”) push, pull, fetch (“remote”)

14. Getting history
status log --graph gitk --all

15. KEY CONCEPTS

16. Things to Know Complete repo should be downloaded
History contains commits
Each commit is a snapshot in time
Snapshot is not a Revision

17. Components Working folder Git Index Local and Remote repo Three States
Tracked, Modified, Staged

18. Anatomy of a commit time f46b2 92da1 27d72 a72c2 Author Committer Date
Message
Parent commit(s)

19. Branches
f46b2
92da1
27d72
a72c2
time
origin
feature1
master *
Pointer to a commit Local unless pushed Easy to create and delete Remotes are read-only HEAD is just a pointer

20. Changing history
git rebase
Change commit’s parent

21. Centralized Workflow
One central repo Dev team push and pull from it git pull --rebase

22. DEMO

23. Links
git-scm.com/book pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/

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