Merge two TFS branches with git tfs

Question

I\'m using git-tfs, and I was wondering if it is possible to merge two TFS branches using git-tfs. I have two branches $/MyCompany/Dev & $/MyCompan

Answer 1

I found an awesome, if hacky way of doing this. Git tfs manages it's awareness of areas of TFS using git config. Specifically 3 attributes per remote; url, repository and fetch, for example:

tfs-remote.default.url=http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/collection
tfs-remote.default.repository=$/Product/Branch/Component
tfs-remote.default.fetch=refs/remotes/default/master

You can add another remote by setting these 3 properties again with a different name to default. Eg:

tfs-remote.feature_branch.url=http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/collection
tfs-remote.feature_branch.repository=$/Product/FeatureBranch/Component
tfs-remote.feature_branch.fetch=refs/remotes/default/feature_branch

You may need to issue git tfs bootstrap now.

You can then issue:

git tfs fetch -i feature_branch

Then merge the commits using:

git merge tfs/feature_branch