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Team Foundation Server: How to migrate TFS Version Control project by project–Part 2

If you want to migrate a full TFS collection, support is built-in. But what if you want to migrate a specific project but want to keep the source code history?

I blogged about a solution I used before by using Git as a way to move code between 2 TFS Version Control repositories. (Here is the link in case you cannot find it: http://bartwullems.blogspot.be/2015/05/team-foundation-server-how-to-migrate.html). I used this approach multiple teams with great success.

However some people who tried to do the same thing complained that the approach I described didn’t work when you have multiple branches. So time to solve this and add the misssing steps required to migratie multiple branches:

[core]

repositoryformatversion = 0

filemode = false

bare = false

logallrefupdates = true

symlinks = false

ignorecase = true

hideDotFiles = dotGitOnly

autocrlf = false

[git-tfs]

ignore-branches = False

[tfs]

touch = 1

[tfs-remote "default"]

url = http://oldtfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

repository = $/BranchingDemo/Main

[tfs-remote "Development/Feature1"]

url = http://oldtfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

repository = $/BranchingDemo/Development/Feature1

[tfs-remote "Development/Feature2"]

url = https://oldtfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

repository = $/BranchingDemo/Development/Feature2

[tfs-remote "Releases/Release1"]

url = http://oldtfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

repository = $/BranchingDemo/Releases/Release 1

[tfs-remote "BranchingDemo"]

url = http://newtfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

repository = $/NewRepository/DevFeature1

  • Initialize the remote
    • git-tfs branch –i BranchingDemo
    • This disconnects the branch from the current remote and connect it to the new TFS server
  • Switch between all branches and execute the following commands:
    • ​git checkout "branchname"
    • git tfs branch $/TargetProject/TargetBranch --comment="branch X" 
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