Migrating from TFS to Git

Question

Hi

Is it possible to migrate from TFS 2008 to Git, and still preserve all the history, etc? I've seen some references that talk about doing it through SVN, but that seems rather complicated, and complicates my mission to introduce Git at my job.

Answer 1

I am not sure there is a direct way to import TFS2008 into a Git repo.
An intermediate SVN bridge, even though it add complexity to the process like you mention in your question, is still the best bet.

The trick is, the branching model in TFS2008 is still akin to the SVN one (branch are directories), which changes from TFS2010.
Hence the SVN bridge, which allows for a git svn session.