Can I use GIT with Visual Studio 2013 without using TFS?

Question

Disclaimer: I'm really new to Visual Studio. I know how to use and set up GIT, just not though Visual Studio.

I need to work with a team on a project, and we want to use GIT as a version control system. With GIT what I would do it set up a remote repository on one of our servers, and we would push and pull from the repository I created. However, when I try to connect Visual Studio 2013 with my GIT created remote repository it throws a number of errors at me. I've been searching online and everything that mentions Visual Studio 2013 with GIT seems to assume I'm going to put my remote repository on a Team Foundation Server, either hosted my Microsoft or set up on my own server.

The problem is, that this project is on a pretty tight budget, and the original programmer didn't account for the cost of TFS. Is it possible to use Visual Studio's built in GIT features to work with a team, but without a TFS set up somewhere?

edit: My manager doesn't want to use any sort of cloud hosting service, so I need to be able to store the remote repository on one of my servers.

Answer 1

Use Visual Studio with Git

[…]or on a third-party service such as GitHub or Bitbucket.

More specifically: Clone a remote Git repository from a third-party service .

EDIT: Above link is broken. Similar information is available here: Clone a third-party Git repository to your dev machine