Git in Visual Studio - add existing project?

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niico picture niico · May 30, 2013 · Viewed 183.3k times · Source

I'm trying to put an existing project under Git source control, but I'm unclear on several things.

I have set up a 'Team Foundation Service' Git account online.

I currently have an ASP.NET MVC 4 solution - in my Projects folder. I have created a Git 'repository' locally (an empty folder currently). Should this just be my current application folder in Projects? Or does it need to be a copy?

How do I get my existing files into the online repository?

Answer

airbear picture airbear · Nov 23, 2013

I went searching around for a similar question - the way I've managed to initialize a Git repository for an existing project file is this (disclaimer: this is done in Visual Studio 2013 Express, without a Team Foundation Server setup):

  1. Open the project in Visual Studio.
  2. Go to menu File → Add to Source Control.

That did it for me - assuming Git is set up for you, you can go to menu View → Team Explorer, then double click the repository for your project file, and make your initial commit (making sure to add whatever files you'd like).

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