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Posted on by HAIRUL HAZRI

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Hi,

We have few projects been up and running in production for a while, but none of them have version control implemented. Clearly this is not a best practice.

So I am a newbie learning to set up version control for these projects.

Is Team Foundation version control better suited for D365 F&O rather than Git? I have seen few articles on setting up version control for D365F&O, most of them uses Team Foundation. But they're pretty old articles so I'm not sure if Team Foundation is the one I should go with. I read in a newer article that Git is better for most situations. So this is getting me confused. In our case, each customer has only one DEV machine so only one developer can work on the environment at a time. So far we only need to trace code changes, not necessarily by whom because only one person can make changes at a time anyway. Should I pick Team Foundation over Git?
Another confusion is, do we create one DevOps project for each visual studio project? Or one DevOps project contains multiple visual studio projects? We usually create one visual studio project for each model. What's the best practice in this case?

Thank you.

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piyush004 110 on at

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RE: D365 Finance & Operations Version Control

Hi Hairul Hazari,

Hope you are doing well.

I am not an expert but as per my observations I personally prefer GIT over VSTS for Vesrion control

Git is a Distributed Version Control System – DVCS where each developer has a copy on their dev machine of the source repository including all branch and history information.

Whereas TFVC is Centralized Version Control System – CVCS,a centralized, client-server system - developers have only one version of each file on their dev machines. Historical data is maintained only on the server.

Here are some reference articles which may help you..

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/tfvc/comparison-git-tfvc?view=azure-devops

https://azuredevopslabs.com/labs/azuredevops/git/

Talking about the confusion of yours regarding DevOps, Microsoft always recommend "One Project to rule them all" . You can manage other project with different teams within a single project.

Please refer thel link below:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/projects/about-projects?view=azure-devops

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Martin Dráb 230,503 Most Valuable Professional on at

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RE: D365 Finance & Operations Version Control

The type of source control was discussed here just two days ago. You'll find more information in the thread Azure DevOps - TFVC or Git.

A DevOps project is for your complete implementation (e.g. for a customer implementation or an ISV product).-It'll contain all source code and - if you decide to store them in version control - all Visual Studio projects related to the implementation.
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RE: D365 Finance & Operations Version Control

Hi Hairul,

If you want to have only one version on the machine, I think using TFVC is more appropriate.

Because Git is a distributed version control system. Each developer has a copy of the source repository on their dev machine. Developers can commit each set of changes on their dev machine and perform version control operations such as history and compare without a network connection.