Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

Much like Git on Windows, once installed you can run Mercurial commands in the standard cmd.exe prompt or Windows PowerShell. Jeremy Skinner created a set of Posh-Hg scripts, inspired by Posh-Git, for ...

Source: Microsoft The new Git tooling is an important development in Visual Studio, especially considering other GitHub-related features released this year (like GitHub Actions for Azure).

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is adding git support to TFS and Visual Studio, putting the distributed version control system on an equal footing with its current centralized system. In so ...

Adding Git support, however, will make the Team Foundation suite an option for many developers and even if they are not interested in hosting their projects on Microsoft’s servers, built-in Git ...

Also the Visual Studio tooling support for Git is almost blank. The compiled version of the add-in is available in the Visual Studio Gallery.

Microsoft has announced that it made several performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 in the 17.3 release. Mainly these enhancements relate to Git branch switching and C++. Some users may ...

Visual Studio Code now supports discovery for nested Git repositories and improves autoscrolling, among other features.

Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code monthly. This changelog tracks the new features and improvements through version 1.50.

A severe vulnerability has been patched in Git software source code to prevent remote code execution attacks being launched at users. The bug, which is industry-wide, was disclosed on Tuesday. Git ...