Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools 227
alphadogg writes "Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by Linus Torvalds into its own development tools. Microsoft is integrating the widely used Git, a distributed revision control and source code management system, into its Visual Studio IDE and Team Foundation Server, two of the company's main tools for enterprise developers."
Re:1st step. (Score:5, Funny)
The GPL and the Git community are going to break Mr. Softy somewhere around step #2.
Yep. First it's Git, then it's Microsoft GCC, then there's the Apache Solution Server and before too long they're selling Aladdin - The Microsoft LAMP Solution.
"New LAMPs for old! New LAMPs for old!"
ducks, runs....
Re:1st step. (Score:3, Funny)
And yes TFS can scale.
And at US$499 per user Cal [microsoftstore.com], so can its price.
Re:1st step. (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot.org readers hate microsoft no matter what. Its sad really how willfully ignorant zealots can be.
That's because Slashdot.org readers have the sad tendency to generalise everything
Ha Ha (Score:5, Funny)
My boss is going to turn purple. He hates git & anything devised by Torvalds.
Re:Ha Ha (Score:3, Funny)
Sometimes hard. Fiance wouldn't let me git init (Score:4, Funny)
git init How hard is that?
Sometimes pretty difficult. My fiance told me there was no way I was going to git init.
Re:Sometimes hard. Fiance wouldn't let me git init (Score:5, Funny)
Especially not --bare