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(Please note If you have Chocolatey already installed, you can jump to step 4)

1. Open CMD Windows PowerShell as administrator 
2. run following in cmd shell to install Chocolatey package manager


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@"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"


3. run following in cmd shell to test Chocolatey installation

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6. run following in cmd shell to verify git-tfs installation.

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git tfs help


Warning

If you don't have any installation from Visual Studio, you might get an error when running the above command

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I downloaded Team Explorer based on this website: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/reintroducing-the-team-explorer-standalone-installer/ and I installed it.

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After that, I choose the option "Not now, maybe later." and "Start Visual Studio"

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NOTE: You don't need to leave the visual studio open.

7. run following command if want to list all TFS branches that could be cloned (Please be careful to use this command as it might take long time.  Also be sure to replace appropriately with your TFS collection information)

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Above command clones the tfs repository      http://tfsprod:8080/tfs/Marine%20Safety/ $/MPDIS-SDDPM_Scrum/DEVELOPMENT/MPDIS-SDDPM
to a temporary git repository at the given local path    c:\tmp\migration\mpdis      A temporary git repositoiry gets created at this location.


9. or Run following command to clone all history from TFS for all branches. For example: MPDIS-SDDPM

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git tfs clone http://tfsprod:8080/tfs/Marine%20Safety/ $/MPDIS-SDDPM_Scrum/DEVELOPMENT/MPDIS-SDDPM c:\tmp\migration\mpdis --branches=all


Tip

If your branch happens to have spaces in the name, put quotes ("") around it.  Eg. git tfs clone http://tfsprod:8080/tfs/Marine%20Safety/ "$/Some branch name with spaces in it/DEVELOPMENT/MPDIS-SDDPM" c:\tmp\migration\mpdis --branches=all


Warning

If your codebase in TFS has sensitive information (eg. passwords), do not include them in your Azure Devops repository.  You can do one of two things:

  1. Remove them from the codebase, check the changed files back into TFS and then be sure to clone the latest code only (step #8).  You will lose all history in this case.
  2. If you clone all history (as in step #9), the passwords will still be available in the repo history.  Remove the culprit files from history as follows:
    1. In the cmd shell, navigate to your repo's folder (in the above example it was c:\tmp\migration\mpdis).
    2. (See this page for more detail regarding this step).   Run the following making sure to change the path-to-the-file to the actual path to the file (eg. src/web.config):  git filter-branch --force --index-filter "git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path-to-the-file" --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
    3. You've now removed the culprit files from history.  You can re-create and add them to the repository later with sensitive information removed if you'd like.

NOTE: If there is a space in a folder name in path-to-the-file, place a slash"\" before the space. E.g. if the path is  My Project/Settings.settings, change it to My\ Project/Settings.settings. Otherwise, the above command does not remove specified file.

10. Check . Now navigate to the location where you cloned your repository (eg. c:\tmp\migration\mpdis).  Then you can check history:

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git log

git log  command can produce very long message with every following key stroke. To exit viewing the log history, hit "q" key from your keyboard

11. check origin:

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git remote -v

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