![]() This is done in Visual Studio’s preferences in the “Source Control” section: Configuring the source control provider Installation through the Visual Studio Extensions and Updates mechanismĪs one of the next steps you need to correctly set the source code provider within Visual Studio as you might have more of them (i.e TFS). The easiest way is probably through its “Extensions and Updates” dialog where you have to simply search for “git source control”. ![]() If you have successfully setup Git (following the procedure mentioned before), you can go ahead and install the Git Source Control Provider extension for Visual Studio. Git Source Control Provider is an open source extension that uses your machine’s Git installation and integrates it into Visual Studio. You find this checklist when opening the Git Extensions application, and then by navigating to Plugins > Settings. Its installation wizard will install everything you need to have a complete Git setup, installing Git (from git-scm) to the different Unix tools to the Git Bash.Īfter you have installed everything, make sure all entries of the Git Extension’s checklist pass for having a trouble-free Git experience. The first step is to download Git Extensions from the corresponding Google Code Repository. The following sections go through their corresponding installations. I quickly tried the plugin and although it perfectly integrates with Visual Studio (mostly like TFS), it is still too much beta for my taste.Ĭurrently the best alternative I found is to install Git Extensions for Windows and Git Source Control Provider Visual Studio Plugin. ![]() You can find it here: Visual Studio Tools for Git (Microsoft) Scott Hanselman wrote about it as well. Recently Microsoft seems to recognize Git as a valuable alternative to its proprietary TFS (Team Foundation Server) to what regards version control and as such it started to release its own Visual Studio extension which is currently in “preview” phase. Terminologyįor getting introduced to the Git terminology, please refer to my previous article. Net devs on that topic, I decided to write this article, using a similar approach, but show-casing the use of Git from within Visual Studio. Since that article turned out to be quite popular and since I’m currently planning an introduction for our. A couple of weeks ago I wrote an introductory article “ Git Explained for Beginners” which aimed at introducing Git to beginners on the basis of Git’s underlying tree structure.
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