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

GitSync for Plastic SCM has been released with support for native Git network protocols and Visual Studio 2012 support.

Visual Studio 2012 is now able to connect to any Git host, including TFS, CodePlex, GitHub and Stash, using an extension available today as Update 2 preview.

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 ...

This means Visual Studio users, for example, can now use GitHub and other Git-compatible repositories to host and manage their projects.

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++.

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).

There used to be a time when Microsoft would release new versions of its Visual Studio development environment every two years or so, with maybe a service pack in the middle. Since the release of ...