#Visual studio 2012 git install#
#Visual studio 2012 git full#

#Visual studio 2012 git full#

I find that the usefulness of Git outweighs any minor inconvenience of not having full IDE integration but it is, to some extent, a matter of taste. Visual Studio is normally fairly happy with things changing under it, although it can sometimes need to reload some projects if you've altered the project files significantly. If anything's obviously wrong switch back to Visual Studio and fix, otherwise commit.ДЄny merge, branch, rebase or other fancy SCM stuff is easy to do in Git from the command prompt. When happy (sensible intermediate point to commit code, switch to Git, stage changes and review diffs. My usage pattern is something like the following. Mine generally contain (amongst other stuff) the following: *.vcproj.*.userД«ut this is heavily C++ biased with little or no use of any class wizard style functionality. gitignore file full of the things that shouldn't be in a shared repository. Of course there are instances when it can be nice to click on a button to do some history examination, but I don't miss that very much. I find that Git, working on whole trees as it does, benefits less from IDE integration than source control tools that are either file based or follow a checkout-edit-commit pattern. You aren't constantly having to switch back and forth. At that point it really isn't too much of a pain to use a different tool. When you are using Git (or SVN typically), your revision-control interactions all take place either before your development session, or after it (once you have everything working and tested). None of that is even part of a typical Git workflow. Then it can help you do whatever revision-control voodoo you need to do when you want to edit a file.

#Visual studio 2012 git install#

I understand that Visual Studio 2013 has Git built-in, but for 2012 I needed to install a plugin. (Barring a few things like getting the SQL Server loaded into the IDE.) Now it was time to get Visual Studio playing with Git. The main killer thing about SourceSafe's integration with Visual Studio is that you (and the editor) can tell at a glance which files you own, which must be checked out before you can edit, and which you cannot check out even if you want to. At this point the solution was up and running as needed for local development. The second (which is related) is that when you are using the edit-merge workflow that both Subversion and Git encourage, you don't really need Visual Studio integration. There are a lot of hooks in it that are either way expensive to implement, or just flat out make no sense when you are using the more modern edit-merge workflow.

The first is that the API pretty much assumes you are using a locked-checkout workflow. However, most folks don't bother with it for a couple of reasons. For the first time, Git support and integration are baked in. Visual Studio actually has a source control integration API to allow you to integrate third-party source control solutions into Visual Studio. Microsoft Embraces Git in Visual Studio, Team Foundation Service. I've looked into this a bit at work (both with Subversion and Git).