Git client with Visual Studio integration:
http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
Tortoise git is a nice choice as well: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

But in the end of the day I use msysgit with POSHGit as well. The command
line is so much faster, it just has a steeper learning curve.


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Justin Rudd <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1.) Is impossible to answer objectively.  There are no git visual studio
> plugins so using either from Visual Studio is completely dependent on which
> one you like better.  For me, it is bazaar because its rename support is
> truly rename (not a remove than add), and it supports versioning directories
> (which I have found quite handy).  But if I was picking between git and
> mercurial, I'd use mercurial but only because I have more experience with
> Mercurial than git and I find it works better with Windows (git works fine
> with Windows just not as cleanly in my opinion).
>
> 2.) Nope.  But I tried VisualHg (http://visualhg.codeplex.com/).  And it
> pretty nice.  I don't know if all the features are solid, but the "hidden"
> ones that I used (rename files, rename directories, etc.) worked without me
> having to drop to the command line to fix things up before commit.
>
> 3.) I don't know about git, but with Mercurial securing access to the
> repository was hit or miss.  We served up the central repository behind an
> IIS box.  We put ACLs on the repo and sometimes they worked, sometimes they
> didn't.  Never really debugged it to a root cause...
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Shawn Neal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> TFS and it's nanny checkout system has annoyed me for the last time, so I
>> was hoping to solicit some feedback from other's who might have moved away
>> from centralized revision control system to a DRCS like Git or Mercurial.
>>  Our development team has experience with both Git and Hg, but for non .NET
>> development.  I worry about how well these two play with Visual Studio; I
>> suspect without some sort of VS integration it'll be harder to use than TFS
>> especially for renames.
>>
>>    1. For .NET development with VS 2010, which works better, Git or Hg?
>>     Why?
>>    2. Do you use any source control plugins to VS?  Which one?
>>    3. When moving from a centralized version control system to a
>>    distributed one, what are some things to watch out for?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> -Shawn
>>
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