How to Push Your Git Repository to TFS

In this guide, we’ll walk through the steps of pushing your Git repository to Team Foundation Server (TFS). This guide assumes that you’re working with a Git repository. If your project isn’t already in a Git repository, you’ll need to initialize a new Git repository for your project.

Step 1: Add the TFS Remote in VS Code

First, we need to add the TFS remote to our local Git repository. This can be done in Visual Studio Code using the following steps:

1. Open the Command Palette with Ctrl+Shift+P or F1.
2. Type Git: Add Remote and press Enter.
3. Enter the name of the remote (for example, tfsorigin).
4. Enter the URL of the TFS remote.

Step 2: Push Your Changes

Once you’ve added the TFS remote, you can push your changes with the following command:

git push tfsorigin master

This command pushes your committed changes on the master branch to the tfsorigin remote. If you want to push a different branch, replace master with the name of your branch.

Step 3: Increase the Post Buffer (if necessary)

If you’re trying to push a large amount of data and you encounter an error message like this:

error: unable to rewind rpc post data - try increasing http.postBuffer

You can increase the size of Git’s HTTP post buffer with the following command:

git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

This command sets the http.postBuffer configuration value to 500 MiB. If you’re still having trouble after running this command, you might need to increase the buffer size even more.

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I hope this guide helps!