https://drrandom.org/tags/version-control/Recent content in Version-Control on Dr. RandomHugoen-gbWed, 16 Nov 2011 06:53:00 +0000https://drrandom.org/2011/11/16/grappling-with-multiple-remotes-in-git-tfs/Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:53:00 +0000https://drrandom.org/2011/11/16/grappling-with-multiple-remotes-in-git-tfs/<p>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 <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2331636/real-world-use-of-mercurial-with-a-team-foundation-server/2351734#2351734">question on StackOverflow</a>.  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.</p>