Summary

The init command creates a new git repository, initialized from a TFS source tree (without fetching the changesets). Fetching changeset should be done with fetch command.

Prefer the clone command to initialize and fetch changesets from a TFS repository!

Synopsis

Usage: git-tfs init [options] tfs-url-or-instance-name repository-path [git-repository]
  -h, -H, --help
  -V, --version
  -d, --debug                Show debug output about everything git-tfs does
  -i, --tfs-remote, --remote, --id=VALUE
                             The remote ID of the TFS to interact with
                               default: default
      --template=VALUE       Passed to git-init
      --shared[=VALUE]       Passed to git-init
      --initial-branch=VALUE Passed to git-init (requires Git >= 2.28.0)
      --autocrlf=VALUE       Normalize line endings (default: false)
      --ignorecase=VALUE     Ignore case in file paths (default: system
                                 default)
      --bare                 clone the TFS repository in a bare git repository
      --workspace=VALUE      set tfs workspace to a specific folder (a
                               shorter path is better!)
      --ignore-regex=VALUE   a regex of files to ignore
  -u, --username=VALUE       TFS username
  -p, --password=VALUE       TFS password
      --no-parallel          Do not do parallel requests to TFS

Examples

Simple

To initialize $/Project1 from your TFS 2010 server tfs into a new directory Project1, do this:

git tfs init http://tfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection $/Project1

then, to retrieve tfs changesets do this :

git tfs pull

Note: [pull] is here preferred to [fetch], otherwise the git branch master won't be created

See also

• clone
• quick-clone
• pull
• fetch
• Set custom workspace to bypass errors due to NTFS length path limits of 259 characters