Visual Studio and GitTFS and Git, best buddies

What is git?

Why should I care?

Ok, so what makes it so great?

How does it work?

Commits are immutable

Directional commit graph

Labels are used for marking commits

Decentralized, distributed, resilient

The Git workflow

Branch -> Commit -> Merge

Multiple remotes

Pull requests

Visual Studio Integration

TFS integration

Advantages over standard TFS

It’s fast

It’s distributed and resilient

It encourages experimentation

Disadvantages

It assumes you can think

It assumes you know how it works

Steep learning curve

Recommendations

Learn to use it

Not off the internet

From someone who knows it

Don’t use rebase

It summons gremlins

Alternatives to Visual Studio Git

Github for Windows

SourceTree

A few more resources

Git for ages 4 and up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffBJ4sVUb4

http://think-like-a-git.net/

Good luck on your road