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Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team

Edward ThomsonApril 19, 2018Apr 19, 201804/19/18

Whenever I talk to somebody about Git and version control, one question always comes up: How do you do your branching at Microsoft? And there’s no one answer to this question. Although we’ve been moving everybody in the company into one engineering system, standardizing on Git hosted in Visual Studio Team Services, what we haven’t done...

Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki

Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)March 25, 2018Mar 25, 201803/25/18

Now you can publish markdown files from a git repository to the VSTS Wiki. Developers often write SDK documents, product documentation, or README files explaining a product in a git repository. Such pages are often updated alongside code in the code repository. Git provides a friction free experience where code and docs can live on the same ...

TFVC Windows Shell Extension for VSTS and TFS 2018

Matthew Mitrik (MS)March 21, 2018Mar 21, 201803/21/18

Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) users looking for a lightweight version control experience integrated into Windows File Explorer will be happy to see the latest release of the TFVC Windows Shell Extension. This tool provides convenient access to many TFVC commands right in the explorer context menu, and the latest release adds support ...

How to Contribute to Git (on Windows)

Derrick StoleeMarch 8, 2018Mar 8, 201803/8/18

Git was originally designed for Unix systems and still today, all the build tools for the Git codebase assume you have standard Unix tools available in your path. If you have an open-source mindset and want to start contributing to Git, but primarily use a Windows machine, then you may have trouble getting started. In fact, while responding ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 6

Kayla Ngan (MSFT)March 6, 2018Mar 6, 201803/6/18

This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 6. In this release, you can now push, delete, and view all of the Git tags in your repository. Additionally, if you use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), you can checkout pull request branches making it easier to review, test, and build changes. To learn more about what else is new in Visual ...

Link wiki pages and work items, write math formulas in Wiki, Keyboard shortcuts and more…

Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)January 12, 2018Jan 12, 201801/12/18

Happy new year to all Wiki lovers. We are learning a lot with each passing day and in this blog I will share our learning and value that we delivered in the past few sprints. Few of these features are coming up in this sprint (Jan end). Link work items and Wiki pages In October, we had enabled the referencing work items to a wiki page, now ...

Microsoft’s Performance Contributions to Git in 2017

Derrick StoleeJanuary 11, 2018Jan 11, 201801/11/18

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) hosts the largest Git repository in the world: the Windows source code. Keeping a primary copy of the code available in the cloud and having it be performant while being updated by over 4000 users at the same time is a monumental achievement, but it is only useful if engineers can use the core Git client on ...

New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5

Kayla Ngan (MSFT)December 8, 2017Dec 8, 201712/8/17

This week we released Visual Studio 2017 Update 5. In this release, we added new Git features which were based on your UserVoice requests to support Git submodules, Git worktrees, fetch --prune, and pull --rebase. To learn more about all of our Git features and what's new in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5, check out our Git tutorials and the ...

Announcing public preview of Wiki search

Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)December 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17

Search wiki pages Over time as teams document more content in wiki pages, finding relevant content becomes increasingly difficult. To maximize collaboration, you need the ability to easily discover content across all your projects. Now you can use wiki search to quickly find relevant wiki pages by title or page content across all projects ...

Supporting Inner Source with Forks

Edward ThomsonNovember 21, 2017Nov 21, 201711/21/17

We're very excited to announce that we've added the ability to fork Git repositories hosted in Visual Studio Team Services. If you work on open source projects, then you're probably already familiar with repository forks. A fork takes a Git repository and creates a duplicate copy of it - on Visual Studio Team Services - and lets you work in ...

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