Hands-on Azure Repos: Understanding Centralized and Distributed Version Control in Azure DevOps Services

✍ Scribed by Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Use Azure Repos to manage your code in both centralized and distributed version control systems. This book will show you how to work with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) and distributed version control (Git), while exploring their best practices.
You'll start with an introduction to Azure Repos, focusing on TFVC and Git, and then gradually transition to hands on lessons of working with TVFC. Next, you'll see how to set up and work with TFVC branches and tracking systems followed by usage of command line and security in TFVC Repos.
Create and work on Git Repos in Azure DevOps and use branching with Azure Git Repos and Git command line in Visual Studio and vscode. The book then explores security in Git Repos and advanced options you can use to import from external Repos. With Hands-on Azure Repos as your guide, you'll be able to work with these version control tools on any platform and with any language.
What You'll Learn

• Integrate Azure Repos with Azure Boards to enable tracking work with code.
• Create guidelines to tackle difficult situations in using Azure Repos
• Clone Azure Repo to local using Visual Studio and vscode
• Work with shelvesets, code reviews and lock types
• Perform activities using REST API with Azure Repos

Who This Book Is For
Software developers, tech leads and architects.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Getting Started with Azure Team Foundation Version Control (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 1-26
Working with Team Foundation Version Control: Part1 (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 27-54
Working with TFVC: Part 2 (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 55-83
Team Foundation Version Control Branching (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 85-108
Team Foundation Version Control: Command Line (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 109-122
Team Foundation Version Control: Security (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 123-137
Getting Started with Azure Git Repos (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 139-170
Branching with Azure Git Repos (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 171-206
Using the Command Line with Azure Git Repos (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 207-224
Azure Git Repos: Security (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 225-240
Azure Git Repos Extras (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 241-265
REST APIs for Azure Git and TFVC Repos (Chaminda Chandrasekara, Pushpa Herath)....Pages 267-276
Back Matter ....Pages 277-280

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Microsoft and .NET; Computer Applications