Git

If you happen to be one of the many people in the unfortunate situation to be stuck working with TFS source control on a daily basis and gaze longingly at the folks using Git or Mercurial wishing you could have some of that distributed goodness for your very own self, I am here to tell you that all is not lost. There are a couple ways you can work with a distributed version control system along side TFS and try and reduce the pain associated with TFS. One way I wrote about here as an answer to a question on StackOverflow. This technique worked fairly well for me dealing with a small codebase with only a few branches. However, it became unmanageable once I started working in an environment which had a large TFS repo with several different branches that I needed to switch between on a regular basis. You can read about some of the issues I ran into within the updated section of the answer, but overall things got messy quickly. ...