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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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