Migrating from TFVC to Git

Migrating

Even Microsoft are embracing Git right now

Put simply the steps to migrate source code off TFVC onto Git whilst retaining all history are as follows:

1. Create a new local directory on your machine to clone the existing TFVC source code into

2. Download the git-tfs tfs/git bridging tool https://github.com/git-tfs/git-tfs/releases

3. git-tfs clone http://tfs:8080/tfs/isd “$//main” ..\ –branches=all (this brings history down locally in git – mine took 2 hours)

4. git remote add origin http://tfs:8080/tfs/ISD/_git/

5. git push -u origin –all (if you get authentication errors go to Start > Credential Manager and remove tfs entries.

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