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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a Git repository in an existing TFVC Team Project


Traditionally, it has only been possible to have TFVC as a source control repository. TFS started supporting Git as a source control from TFS 2013 onwards. Git offers many benefits for distributed Teams collaborating across the same codebase; you can read more about the benefits here at https://git-scm.com/about. TFVC Teams that are keen to try out Git, but cannot because of the rework involved in migrating their existing investments now have a solution. TFS now supports hybrid Team Projects. In this recipe, you'll learn how to set up a Git repository within an existing TFVC-based Team Project.

Getting ready

In Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1, you need to be a member of the project administrator group to make an existing TFVC or Git project into a hybrid project, a project that hosts both a TFVC repository and multiple Git repositories. Users will need Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 to work with the hybrid project. Older versions...