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My Experience moving FinOps/X++ code to GitHub

I recently saw a question on LinkedIn, asking if we can share our experience with moving to Git version control. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tommyskaue_developer-git-xppdevs-activity-7017198598765342721-0i8c Here is a response to it. I will share my experience of moving to GitHub version control. We have chosen to move our X++ code to Git and in particular GitHub about 6 months ago. Reasons for the move Below are some of the reasons we have chosen to move from TFVC on Azure DevOps to Git on GitHub: Every single source code/project we have is on Git except for our X++ code. I have been asked way too many times as to why we are on TFVC. I have explained many times but I can't help shake the feeling that others think X++ is some old language. In other words, better alignment. There has been considerable effort to move to GitHub as our approved version control from many other version control systems. This is to make our code more accessible to all teams, have policies in place, leve...

Show deleted items in Source Control Explorer

Common query I have seen a few times. Thought to share a simple tip. There are times when items are deleted or moved to a different model. In that case you may need to see the deleted items to roll it back or see what was deleted. In visual studio, go to the Options and tick the flag to “Show deleted items in the Source Control Explorer”. Alternatively click on this button. Thanks to Joris for pointing it out.