Chapter 6
Using Team Foundation Version Control
What's in this chapter?
Understanding version control
Learning what's new in Team Foundation Server 2012
Using the Source Control Explorer
Using the new My Work experience
Viewing the history of files and folders
Using the version control command line
Using Team Foundation version control in Eclipse and on non-Windows platforms
Understanding version control security and permissions
Working with Team Foundation Server for Visual SourceSafe users
Using Team Foundation Server for Subversion users
Version control is one of the primary reasons that people adopt Team Foundation Server. Most professional developers have had some prior experience with a version control system. The first thing you must come to terms with is that every version control system is different. While change can be unsettling at first, there are clear benefits in moving to Team Foundation Server.
Team Foundation Server provides a robust, powerful, and scalable version control infrastructure that you can rely on to support the needs of your software development efforts. From teams of 1 to teams of 5,000 or more, Team Foundation Server is a mission-critical system supporting many organizations today. It was built from scratch by Microsoft, and is not based on its previous version control offering, Visual SourceSafe (VSS).
Team Foundation Server stores all its version control data in a SQL Server database alongside the work item and build information. Team Foundation ...
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