Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools

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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Re:1st step.

[cheesybagel]

Considering Microsoft themselves prefer to use Perforce for Windows development I would venture to guess that TFS doesn't scale all that well in reality.

Re:1st step.

[mcrbids]

What makes no sense to me is why they'd use *Git* which is almost hostile towards the Windows platform, and not embrace Mercurial which has always been friendly to Windows users, offers capabilities similar to Git, and is designed more for ease of use and data integrity.

Git is all fine and well, but any VCS that includes both "history rebasing" and "garbage collection" as part of its commit history management, in my opinion, violates the very point of a VCS - to keep track of what was done by who, when. I'll pass, thanks, even if I do have a ton of respect for Linus.

So, Microsoft, why Git?

Re:MS Really Embracing OSS?

[benjymouse]

They did the smartest thing they could have done, which was to put an Apple-style interface on a free, high quality implementation of an operating system that was more than powerful enough to hang with the industry leaders, well understood by geeks, and which contained, essentially, the reference implementation of the protocols that the internet runs on.

Were you around in 2001? I don't think "high quality" is a term anyone would use to describe those first versions of OS X. It was slow, user interface sluggish, riddled with kernel panics. Apple actually had to offer a free upgrade to 10.1 - which was still slow and sluggish but somewhat more stable. OS X eventually grew into a high quality OS, but those first versions were certainly not. Until Tiger it was kind of a joke, really.