How to force Visual Studio to use the TFS source control provider and not GIT provider

Question

EDIT: this is a known issues and will not be "fixed"

The question then is how do I configure git to name the .git folder something else for this one repo.

I don't want to use the GIT_DIR environment variable as that would be a system wide.

We are evaluating Azure DevOps (using git) and I'd like to use an existing project which is currently under on-prem TFS.

I'm perfectly comfortable using git from the cli, but VS2017 automatically defaults to using the Git source control provider. If I change it back to TFS, it warns me and closes the solution. when I re-open it, I'm back to the GIT source control provider.

Short of uninstalling the git source control provider, are there any other options?

I've surmised that if VS sees a folder, even an empty one, named .git it uses the GIT provider. Is it possible to configure git to use a different folder in place of .git?

Answer 1

You would try the following steps:

1. Make sure you are connected to TFS/Azure DevOps in VS.

2. Make sure your source control is selected as VSTFS plugin from Tools->Options->Source Control.

3. Now try to Add Solution to Source Control, it will ask where you need to add the solution in your TFS instance.