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New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
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

December 1, 2017 Dec 1, 2017 12/1/17
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
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

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
Edward Thomson
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 ...

GVFS Updates: More Performance, More Availability

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Edward Thomson
It's been a few months since we last talked about GVFS, the technology that allows Git to support Enterprise-scale Git repositories. And it's been a busy few months.  Not only have we been working on a ton of performance improvements, we've also been getting it ready for a wider audience so that we can bring modern version control and DevOps ...

VSTS SSH on Azure’s Global Network

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Kayla Ngan (MSFT)
Over the past few months, we've been moving SSH for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) onto Azure's global network. As part of the move, we’re asking our SSH users to update their remotes to new SSH URLs. We have rolled out the new URLs to all accounts, and will be maintaining support for the old URLs though December 1, 2017. We recognize ...

Wiki* to turn Wiki & many exciting features

October 16, 2017 Oct 16, 2017 10/16/17
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
It has been 3 months since Wiki went live and thanks to your feedback, we believe this is the right time to remove preview tag from Wiki. Wiki* will be Wiki in the coming days. I would like to give a shout out to everyone in the developer community , VSTS user voice, and those who reached out to us with their feedback to make VSTS better...

Wiki supports HTML tags, anchor links, and much more

September 5, 2017 Sep 5, 2017 09/5/17
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
It has been exactly 2 months since Wiki went live on VSTS. Wiki is also available in TFS 2018 RC1 now. We have received tons of great feedback and we also learnt a lot from usage patterns. I wanted to talk about some of our learnings and the improvements in Wiki. If you are just starting with Wiki, then you can read my first blog on Wiki...

Git forks now in public preview

September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17
Matt Cooper
Forks - the ability to create a server-side copy of a Git repository - is rolling out across Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and available in TFS 2018 RC1 as a public preview. In VSTS, you won't have to do anything to turn it on, it'll be available by default. If it's not on for you yet, it will be after the current deployment finishes. [...

Git vulnerability with submodules

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17
Edward Thomson
The Git community has disclosed a serious security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution. This has been assigned CVE 2017-1000117. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team takes security issues very seriously.  We encourage all users to update their Git clients as soon as possible to address this issue...

Announcing public preview of Wiki in Visual Studio Team Services

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17
Sandeep Chadda (MSFT)
Last updated 1/4/2017: Wiki was released to all in October. Read more. Each project in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) now supports its own Wiki. Now you can conveniently write pages that help your team members and other users understand, use, and contribute to your project. Create my first wiki page When you create your first Wiki, ...