TFVC & Git support

I got a question on a blog post about differences in TFVC and Git support in TFS and VS Online.  Here’s a link to the question for context: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/03/12/the-future-of-team-foundation-version-control.aspx#10608301 I can’t answer in a comment with reasonable formatting so I’ll answer in a post. One thing you can check out is an MSDN topic on the subject here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181368.aspx.  There’s some useful information there but I feel like that page is trying to do too many things at once – explain some of the feature differences between a distributed version control system and a centralized one, etc.  But it you really are looking holistically at how to choose, there are a lot of factors to consider.  The page is also a little out of date with respect to feature availability.  We’re working on an update to the page to improve it. But I decided to quickly jot an answer here that I think is in the spirit of the question.  The question, as I read it, is about comparative feature support.  My first reaction to the question is that creating a list of differences is both very short and very misleading – because the vast majority, at this point, is common across the two.  The question, of course, is where to draw the line.  I could write a 10 page document if I had the time and wanted to try to cover everything I can think of.  So I’ve focused on what I think are some of the top features in VSO/TFS and highlighted what support we have in each and the differences.  I’m sure I’ve missed some big things.  It was a 15 minute exercise.

  I hope it’s helpful.

Brian