XCode development with Team Foundation Server

Occasionally, I do work on multiple platforms and historically mixed development has been an issue when your environment requires TFS. However, with TFS supporting Git, it should make that development much easier. I just ran across a couple posts that with instructions on how to use TFS w/ XCode and thought I would share.

Microsoft has a page dedicated to making this happen: (UPDATE: 2016-05-05, Microsoft moved the page) https://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/code/share-your-code-in-tfvc-xcode http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/learn/use-git-and-xcode-with-tfs.aspx . I don't have a Team Foundation Server at my disposal, but it looks like you should be able to do this with onsite Team Foundation servers.

In projects with .Net code and iOS (and/or potentially Android), it might be a good idea to keep the code in separate repositories. It appears that Team Foundation Server 2012 supports multiple Git repositories with a single TFS team project.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17591461/can-you-add-multiple-git-repositories-to-a-team-project-in-tfs-tfs-service

You can create multiple git repositories under a single Team Project. Navigate to the Code Explorer, and locate the repository chooser in the web interface and select Manage Repositories...

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From the repository manager, you can add a new repository:

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This, of course, is provided that the Team Project uses Git as the version control provider - you can't mix and match Git repositories and Team Foundation Version Control in a single Team Project.

If you have an existing project w/ TF source control, you are out of luck. You can't do multiple TF SC repositories or have a TF and Git repository, so the only option is Git for this.

It is nice to see Microsoft embracing an incredibly powerful tool like Git. Just need to be weary about them reverting back to the days of the 3 E's.