If you have the budget and decide to use git, I would look at using
github.com as well.  It makes git much more accessible.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Shawn Neal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks everyone.  So it sounds like
>
> There are Git/Hg plugins for VS, but everyone uses the command
> line/powershell.
> Switching to a Git/Hg is well worth the effort.
>
> Chris - I remember that discussion ;)  it's been a while and I was hoping to
> get feedback specifically around tooling - which I got, so thanks!
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Justin Rudd <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Nice.  Didn't know about gitextensions.  But they don't install on my
>> Win7/VS2010 host.  Anyone got that working successfully?
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Bobby Johnson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> For .NET development with VS 2010, which works better, Git or Hg?  Why?
>>>>> Do you use any source control plugins to VS?  Which one?
>>>>> 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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