Git Extensions and Visual Studio

Posted February 17, 2009 * Comments(8)

With the Git extensions you get some nice Visual Studio integration. You get a nice menu and toolbar to work some of your Git magic right from the IDE.
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8 Comments so far

  1. josh on February 17th, 2009

    You’ve convinced me it’s time to try git. Am downloading it now.

  2. mark on February 17th, 2009

    @Josh It is pretty nice to be able to do source controlly things without a lot of setup. I haven’t used SVN, but Sean says most of what I’ve mentioned about Git is equally as easy with SVN.

  3. Andrew on November 27th, 2009

    I’m in the process of migrating from SVN to Git. I’ve walked through a bunch of the command line examples, and I think I’m starting to get how Git works. But, I’m having a lot of trouble with the Visual Studio extension. Most importantly, I can’t figure out how to add/stage files from within VS. Also, is there any indicator of which files have changed? AnkhSvn had little icons in the file explorer that showed where my edits were at a glance.

    Is there a brief tutorial anywhere that walks through using the Git VS extensions? The documentation is essentially one screenshot (the one in your post.)

    Thanks,
    Andrew

  4. mark on November 30th, 2009

    @Andrew I actually haven’t used the Visual Studio extension in a while. What limited work I’ve done in Git has all been via the command line.

  5. Andrew on December 2nd, 2009

    OK. Thanks anyway.

  6. Nicolas on December 5th, 2009

    Hello

    I’m sorry to tell you that but i don’t see the interest of an Visual studio integration if you don’t have a interaction with the Solution Explorer (like VisualSVN or VisualHG).

  7. freddy.cruze on March 22nd, 2010

    I’m agree with Nicolas. I’m using SVN with VS2008 (AnkhSvn) and it is a good tools. I can do anything without the console. But I have to say that Git looks good. I’m starting on that, and I can say that I Love it. it’s easy, powerfull, and Distributed.

    But I ‘ll take a look on Git extensions now.

    Regard’s

    Freddy Cruz

  8. mark on March 22nd, 2010

    @Freddy I agree as well. Even after I installed the tools, I spent little time in them, in favor of the command line. It’s been over a year since I’ve last looked at them. They might have made some more progress. Mercurial might have better VS integration and then use http://hg-git.github.com/

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