Git revision control system support

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Re: Git revision control system support

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Hi Mathew,
Mathew Weaver wrote:Does H&M v7.0 work with TFS 2015? Or does it only work with TFS 2012?

The current release version only supports TFS 2012. Support for TFS 2013 and 2015 are coming in the upcoming 7.1 update. You can download the stable beta and test it if you like. Note that HM only supports TFS on your own servers, not the TFS online service hosted by Microsoft, which has a completely different authentication system.
Will it work with a Git repository hosted in TFS? Or do we need to use a standard TFS repository?
Standard TFS. If you try to put Git in TFS your project will turn into a purple toad, inflate and then explode.

However, you can also use version control "passively" with any version control system, since all the source files are plain-text XML. To do this, you create your project in uncompressed XML format (HMXP) and load the entire project folder into your version control system's repository. Then your users have to check out and commit their local working copies themselves, and you also don't get the status icons in the TOC, but apart from that everything will work fine.
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Re: Git revision control system support

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Any news on native git support?
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Re: Git revision control system support

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Hi Steffen,
Steffen Sledz wrote:Any news on native git support?
This will happen with version 8 at the earliest, and that is going to be a while. Sorry about that. :?
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Re: Git revision control system support

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Back to the original subject of this thread...

Has something happened here in the meantime?

It is actually completely incomprehensible why git as the most widely used version control system in the world is not supported. :(
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Re: Git revision control system support

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Sorry, git is going to come eventually but it is still going to take a while. You can still use git passively, however, as you can with any version control system. The only real difference is that each user must create their own local working copies, update before a working session and commit afterwards.
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