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<\/a>\nI can’t answer in a comment with reasonable formatting so I’ll answer in a post.\nOne thing you can check out is an MSDN topic on the subject here: https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms181368.aspx<\/a>. 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 The page is also a little out of date with respect to feature availability.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.\nBut 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.<\/p>\n
| Feature<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n TFVC<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Git<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n | \n Comments<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Alerts<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Android Studio integration<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n N<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Build support<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Both Xaml builds & Build v.next. We also have support for both for Jenkins<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n CodeLens<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Some differences. Git works offline. TFVC has a couple more indicators – like incoming changes.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Code review<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n TFVC has “in IDE” code review. Git has web based pull requests. Later this year the two will be converged and have web and IDE experiences for both<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Code search<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n N<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Code search is in private preview and currently only has Git support. We’ll be adding TFVC support this summer.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Cross platform command line<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Data warehouse<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n N<\/p>\n<\/td>\n TFVC exposes some warehouse data like code churn. Git does not. Stay tuned for some announcements in this area.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Eclipse Integration<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Gated checkin<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n N<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Will have a Git equivalent this summer<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n High availability\/DR<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Welcome pages<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Work item linking<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Some small differences. TFVC can resolve workitems with checkins, Git can’t. Git can #reference work items in commit comments, TFVC can’t. We’ll get parity later this year.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n VS integration<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n TFVC support is a little ahead with Source Control Explorer, a little better Team Explorer integration, Merge visualization, etc.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n XCode integration<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n N<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Y<\/p>\n<\/td>\n \nI hope it’s helpful.<\/p>\n Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-13830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |