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Use Git and TFVC repos in the same project

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TFS 2018

In Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1, a project administrator can add a Git repo to a project created with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC). You can also add a TFVC repo to a project created with Git. This allows you to adopt a new version control system while preserving all the data in your project.

Enable access to the new repo type

Because permissions are applied at project creation time by a process template, there will be a small amount of work to correct permissions for a new repo type.

Add a Team Foundation Version Control repo to a Git project

The project administrator will need to apply some project folder-level permissions when the project folder is created. Go to the Version Control administration page and select the "$/ProjectName" node in the tree. To set up the same groups as any of our default process templates (Agile, Scrum, CMMI), add the following TFS groups and permissions:

  1. [ProjectName]\Readers
    • Allow: Read
    • Not set: All others
  2. [ProjectName]\Contributors
    • Allow: Check in, Check out, Label, Lock, Merge, Read
    • Not set: All others
  3. [ProjectName]\Build Administrators
    • Allow: Check in, Check out, Label, Lock, Merge, Read
    • Not set: All others