ChrisCarrAu

trigger:
- master

pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'

variables:
- group: kvintegratedvargroup

steps:

ChrisCarrAu

Migrating TFS to Git is relatively straightforward with tools such as git-tfs, but how to do it and maintian your labels in a useful way? This is the problem I had to solve recently and this is how I did it.

Requirements:
1. Migrate all version control history (10+ years) from TFS to Git
2. Maintain all of the labels in TFS which were used to mark code releases so that the correct version of code can be hot-fixed or reviewed.

I tried to migrate this all in a single Git repository, but the TFS repository had been branched sufficiently that it made the result unintelligible.

I opted for a cleaner approach which met the requirements and also gave the developers a solid platform from which to start with their new Git repository. Create two Git repositories. One for history containing all of the source, atomic checkins and commit comments, and the other containing the releases (from labels) and which would be the base for the new repository.