We can perform this from the command line.

Once you have finished the feature you are working on, you will want to commit your local changes back into the central repository. This means we can happily commit or perform other functions without effecting the central repository. Remember, when we commit it is to our master branch that we cloned from our central repository. If we look at the Commits Page in Team Explorer we can see the changes that we have made. By installing Visual studio tools for Git, we can manage our changes from team explorer.įile status is shown in Solution Explorer and from the context menu we can perform tasks such as Undo, Compare, Commit, View History. We now have the project to work with in Visual Studio. This means we check changes into the master branch thus not effecting the central repository. Git then creates a copy of this for us to work with. When we clone we get a complete copy of the repository including version history. It is important to understand what is happening here. We do this using clone, the equivalent of checkout in Subversion. Now we want a branch of the repository on our machine so that we can work on a new feature. That's all we need to do to set up our centralised repository. If you already have a Git repository, maybe you have been working on a project and now want to create a centralised repository, you can clone it as a bare repository. This is a common convention to denote a bare repository but by no means a requirement. For a centralised repository to work, a bare repository must be created. Typically you will want your central repository on a server for everyone to access.

This can also be a good way to transition to Git. Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) but if you are used to a centralised workflow, maybe having used Subversion, then you can still do this with Git. Here's the workflow I use for projects using a centralised Git repository. Git is a great version control system and is very easy to integrate with Visual Studio.

Visual studio repository