[Solved] Migrating from On Premisis Source Control to Cloud

To move all your branches and history from 1 repository to another: Create an empty repository in your Azure DevOps project Clone your current repository (from TFS) using git clone –mirror $URL Add a new remote pointing to your Azure DevOps repository Push to the new remote How the current man-page explains –mirror: Compared to … Read more

[Solved] How does git generate diff in files?

Your original question asked about binary files, which in Git, means “files that Git has decided are not text”. For such files, unless you provide a special diff driver, Git does not attempt to generate a diff, it only says “these two files are the same” or “these two files are different”. (A diff driver … Read more

[Solved] How do I know what files should be gitignored?

Put the files you do not want in your git repository in the .gitignore file. These are typically: Easy to generate files Intermediate (build) files Large binaries (e.g. documentation), that are also available elsewhere (on your companies servers) Files containing sensitive information (like passwords) Files of external dependencies (especially when using a dependency manager to … Read more

[Solved] Can I fork a forked repo to get access to it, where the original repo is private?

Can any of my friends fork and give me the access. Can I fork the repo, which they forked already? Not using GitHub’s forking feature: Private forks inherit the permissions structure of the upstream or parent repository. For example, if the upstream repository is private and gives read/write access to a team, then the same … Read more