How to perform code migration from TFS 2018 to Azure DevOps?

Question

We are trying to migrate code from TFS2018 to Azure DevOps. I am new to code migration from TFS to VSTS. I would like to know is there any tool for code migration?

I saw TFS-GIT utility. I am really not sure how much efficient this tool.

GIT-TFS list remote repostiory

Answer 1

你可以通过 OpsHub 工具： OpsHub Visual Studio Online Migration Utility

Answer 2

My recommendation would be to either upgrade your on-premise server to Azure DevOps Server 2019 or the latest Team Foundation Server 2018 update pack that's supported by the migration tool.

You can perform this upgrade on a clone instance of your existing server, so it won't break or change your existing machine or database in case anything goes wrong.

We regularly perform these types of migrations and we generally use a temporary Azure Virtual Machine. We install SQL Server on it, we restore the backup of the on-premise server, we install the desired TFS application tier version on it. If the Azure machine is joined to your domain, then that's all you need to start the import into Azure DevOps. If the machine isn't domain joined, be sure to turn off the AD Sync job as part of the migration. My colleague Jasper has a couple of scripts to fix that for you .

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Alternate options. In my opinion there aren't any. At least not good ones. There is a whole set of tools that an migrate parts of TFS to Azure DevOps, tools like OpsHub , git-tfs , git-tf , Migration Tools for Azure DevOps . None offer a complete migration, some do work items, some sources, some builds, but none of these offer a complete migration.

All of these also have the issue that they reset metadata such as Commit/Approval dates, work item IDs. Which will impact retention jobs, history and other things you may care about.