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Dynamics AX 2012 - Source Control Solutions

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Hi,

I know Microsoft recommends Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Online, but does it works well with third party solution like GitHub ?

Is it possible and does it come with the same functionalities ?

Thank you

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    GitHub is not supported out-of-the box as a source control system for Ax.

    You would need to write your own integration, and although I think it would be possible (pure technically speaking that is), my advice would be to save yourself the time, trouble and frustration and just stick to the source control solutions that are supported by Ax.

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    Rodolfo Recalde on at

    Hi Matt,

    It highly recommends using the version controls supported by AX. However, there are some experimental solutions, like this here:

    https://github.com/fraga/gitax

    I worked with Fraga in Brazil, he is a exepcional developer. I think today he works in Canada.

    I Hope this Helps!

    Regards,

    Rodolfo Recalde.

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    Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 237,970 Most Valuable Professional on at

    It's a bit more complicated.

    Neither GitHub nor TFS are source control systems and both support Git (which is a source control system). TFS also supports Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC). Before TFS become supporting Git, the difference between TFS and TFVC wasn't that important, therefore people didn't use the terminology precisely.

    Nevertheless the integration in AX uses logic and API of TFVC, therefore you would need a different integration piece to use Git (regardless whether your Git repository is in GitHub, in TFS or elsewhere).

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    Interesting information guys, thanks !

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    Community Member on at

    Maybe I would need a little more clarification:

    If my understanding is correct, TFS and GitHub are considered as a solution suite for development team. Part of the suite, you have the source control system.

    TFS comes by default with TFVC and GitHub comes by default with Git. However, it is possible to configure TFS to use Git as source control system.

    However, Dynamics AX uses logic and API of TFVC only (check-in, check-out, etc...). So if you really want to use TFS + Git, you would loose functionalities.

    So maybe the question I have that would help me to understand a bit better:

    - Can I use TFVC in GitHub ? (I guess no)

    - Can I install TFVC without TFS ? (I guess no and does not make sense)

    - If I want to use Git, does it work natively with minimal integration ?

    I guess you have figured out that I am not a developer.

    Thank you

  • Martin Dráb Profile Picture
    Martin Dráb 237,970 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Your understanding is good. GitHub doesn't support TFVC. Neither you can install TFVC without TFS; it's one of TFS components.

    You definitely can use Git for storing .xpo files in the same way as in TFVC, but the integration to IDE is a problem. I believe you would have to rewrite it completely, nevertheless I've never given it much thought.

    Maybe if you tell us what problem are you trying to solve by using GitHub, we might give you some suggestions.

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    Hi,

    There is no real problem, i just want to understand I little bit better the integration between AX and Version Control Systems :)

    However, it often happens that a customer is already using Git as Version Control System and would like to have only one Version Control System for the development team. My understand if that they could use Git to store their XPOs and Models, but they will loose all the integration between AX and VCS.

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