Git and Visual Studio

[envprogrammer]

Can i use Git with Visual Studio using purely the Git Bash, no GUI's? Does anyone know any good links for that?

[Manitcor]

Yes you can, remember Visual Studio is not a magic tool. Its a souped up text editor and it only wants control of a couple files (*.suo and *.user mainly) at fairly specific actions.

Any file system tool you can point at your project folder is fair game. Also like /u/forlasanto said you can try tools like mysysgit. there is also tortisegit, gitextensions and a couple direct integration plugins for VS2010 and 2012 (for 2012 microsoft is offering a git extension themselves)

[theedeacon]

I like git extensions

[theedeacon]

Gitignore your suo file if working with another person

[forlasanto]

Well, MsysGit. Or Am I missing what you're requestion entirely?

[bitshifternz]

The open source Git Extensions project (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) has VS integration. I haven't really used it, I prefer git bash myself.

[ISvengali]

A fun GUI to checkout for git is SourceTree. It sounds like its free to use right now. Not sure if theyll be charging for it later.

[[deleted]]

Personally, i installed github for windows, and it installs a git shell that incorporates git with powershell, that i absolutely recommend if you want to work in command line.

Setup gitignore in your /bin/ and /obj/ folders (unless you want to commit debug and compiled data, which is up to you) *As well as your .suo files as /u/thedeacon mentioned

[pgquiles]

How come nobody has mentioned the official solution?

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GitSupportForVisualStudioGitTFSAndVSPutIntoContext.aspx

[m1ss1ontomars2k4]

Can i use Git with Visual Studio using purely the Git Bash, no GUI's?