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Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools

Posted by samzenpus on from the strange-bedfellows dept.

alphadogg writes "Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by Linus Torvalds into its own development tools. Microsoft is integrating the widely used Git, a distributed revision control and source code management system, into its Visual Studio IDE and Team Foundation Server, two of the company's main tools for enterprise developers."

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  1. Re:1st step. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    VSS != TFS. Might be time to catch up with 5 years ago. And yes TFS can scale.