Re: interfacing M$-TFS

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> Hi folks,
>
>
> is there any way for directly interfacing M$-TFS (w/o its svn proxy) ?
>
> I'm currently working on an embedded linux project and my customer
> has a company wide policy to put everything into - please put on
> you intellectual seatbelt - M$ TFS.
>
> Needless to mention that TFS' VCS stuff is practically unusable,
> but some collegues still committing directly to TFS (haven't
> conviced them to switch over to git), and releases have to be
> put there, as QA folks dont know anything else.
>
> My current workflow is:
>
> #1: a main branch, frequently copied over TFS manually (;-o)
> #2: lots of topic branches which get rebased onto master
> #3: finished topic branches are rebased to latest master and
>    then copied over to and committed in TFS
>
> Of course, that much manual work - especially with the need of
> checking out / locking invidual files in TFS - really suxx and
> wastes a lot of time. So I'm looking for way to:
>
> a) track remote branches from TFS
> b) push back changes into a TFS remote tracking branch
>
> Both should be possible from Linux side, using the native protocol
> (very unlikely that IT department can be convinced to install the
> svn proxy for TFS).
>
>
>
> thx
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