Tfs command line for mac how to#

I'm not sure what circumstances coalesced one fine day early this year but in one morning of perfect flow I broke through the last barrier. Every time I would ultimately give up yet again and return to my new weird split paradigm daily life. But everything guide I tried to follow or just jump off from hit some huge blocker halfway through. Occasionally I would come across yet another dying Stack Overflow thread or blog post about attempting to do the very thing I was. I furiously started to research any way possible to check in from the macOS side and avoid living my life split across two operating systems.

I had put myself in this situation by requesting a Mac and I would have to find the way out of it on my own.

How do people do this every day I thought? Well they didn't I was told. But there were buttons and features and clutter and slow, slow, slow everything everywhere. Not only was I constantly paradigm switching on any number of things between the two operating systems, but Visual Studio was a nightmare for this Sublime user looking for speed and simplicity in his coding experience. After just a few hours of running my Parallels VM and trying to create some monster mash workflow between the tools I know and love in macOS for my daily front-end needs, I was fed up. Day Two, I found out the project was using TFS for source control and I would need to run Microsoft Visual Studio inside of Windows 10 to check any code in or out. Day one, I had been blessed with a wonderful MacBook Pro.

At the time of joining a team working on an old consumer facing AngularJS application (that's another article for another day), I was a daily Sublime user and came from a Linux/macOS background using cross platform source control tools (either Mercurial or Git). Let's start at the beginning of this journey. I have decided to write this article/how-to guide in a sad and desperate attempt to spare others from (some of) the pain I endured over the last year and a half.

Tfs command line for mac how to#

How To Get TFS Working onВ macOS, in Just Twenty Steps or Less!