Friday, September 23, 2011

Migrating from SourceGear Vault to Microsoft TFS

Yesterday and today we have started migrating from SourceGear Vault to Microsoft TFS. 

We are not importing in any of the history.  Our approach has been the following:
1) Open project under Vault source control
2) Unbind from Vault
3) Open Project (after we connect to TFS and set it as our source control provider in VS 2010.
4) Copy unbound project to folder we want it in TFS
5) Click on project and check references, adding the files needed to the common libraries folder we created in a separate folder
6) Go to file--> Source Control and choose option to add project to source control

This has worked fairly well, a good test is to delete the file, get latest and see if it will still build..

We have also created a build server so we can try out a build before we check it in.

I think we are going to be very happy with the additional functionality that TFS has over Vault, but it definitely is going to take some getting use to..

The main thing I miss right now is the Search tab on Vault client, and choosing "Any Status"..  This quickly shows all files that are different and quickly why they are different (Edited, Renegade, Old, etc).

The only thing I have found similiar in TFS is doing a "Compare" but it is ackward to say the least..

We are on Dynamics Ax 4 so integrating TFS to it is not an option from my understanding..

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