Visual Studio 2015 Team Explorer doesn't see existing local repository clone

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PilotBob picture PilotBob · Aug 14, 2015 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I have a Visual Studio online Team Project with a repository. I have been using this with VS 2013 for a while now.

I installed VS 2015 and connected to Visual Studio online in team explorer and chose the project in question.

however, under solutions it says:

You must clone the repository to open solutions for this project.

I did go to settings and edit my global settings to set my repository root correctly. (same location as set in Visual Studio 2013)

But, it is already cloned and on my local machine.

Why isn't VS 2015 Team Explorer seeing the existing repository folder? How can I fix this other than deleting the folder and doing clone again?

Answer

Edward Thomson picture Edward Thomson · Aug 15, 2015

Because Visual Studio 2013 maintains a list of the repositories that it's seen (and their remotes) separately from where VS 2015 stores this information.

Open Team Explorer, go to the Connect page, and in the Local Git Repositories section, click the Add button. Navigate to the repository that you cloned previously.

Since you're connected to the server, VS will realize that the repository you just opened is a clone of a repository in your server and enable the TFS functionality.

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