Chapter 2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort".

--John Ruskin

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Creating a Git repository in an existing TFVC Team Project
• Enabling code analysis check-in policy
• Performing a baseless merge between sibling branches in TFVC
• Reparenting a branch in TFVC
• Unlocking files checked out by someone else
• Unshelving a shelveset created in one branch to another branch
• Ignoring file types from check-in using .tfignore and .gitignore
• Conducting code reviews in TFS
• Setting up policies for branches in Git
• Conducting Pull requests in TFS
• Analyzing code churn with TFS analysis services cube