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Supercharging the Git Commit Graph

Derrick StoleeJune 25, 2018Jun 25, 201806/25/18

Have you ever run gitk and waited a few seconds before the window appears? Have you struggled to visualize your commit history into a sane order of contributions instead of a stream of parallel work? Have you ever run a force-push and waited seconds for Git to give any output? You may be having performance issues due to the number of commits ...

New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services

Jeremy EplingJune 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18

I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you. That goal is...

Shift Left with SonarCloud Pull Request Integration

Matthew Mitrik (MS)May 10, 2018May 10, 201805/10/18

One of our DevOps "habits" is to Shift Left and move quality upstream. Including additional validations earlier in the DevOps pipeline means identifying potential issues before they become a problem. For teams using pull requests, catching issues while the PR is active is ideal - the code hasn't been merged yet, so it's easy to respond to ...

Announcing the DevOps Resource Center

Sam GuckenheimerMay 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18

One of the favorite parts of my job is curating a web site with the stories of how we work. Those experience reports and more of our guidance are now consolidated at https://aka.ms/devops. In addition to our own stories, this center offers content to help your team learn DevOps practices, Git (including Git at scale), and Agile. There's ...

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 ...

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