Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

In effect, Visual Studio can become the primary interface for Git, for developers. “I can connect, clone a repository, and open the project in Visual Studio, edit files, and commit,” Harry said.

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is adding git support to TFS and Visual Studio, putting the distributed version control system on an equal footing with its current centralized system.

The new features allow the developer to control a Git repository directly from Visual Studio, reducing context-switching. Microsoft first announced the new git tooling earlier this year, in March.

Torvalds started work on Git in 2005 after a licensing disagreement over BitKeeper, the commercial code repository that was used to manage the Linux codebase.