I love Git – it lets me work the way I want and where ever I may be. I love TFS – it has everything companies need for development projects. This is why I love Git-tf, it gives me git but with all the professional tooling from TFS serious development needs. However I have found that upgrading Git-tf isn’t obvious and in fact you may get it wrong without knowing!

I was doing it wrong

Since it is just a file copy deploy (i.e. drop files in a folder), I had assumed that you could just do a file replace of those files when a new version – however I noticed recently the version numbers after an “upgrade” didn’t match up.

Solution

The solution is to delete all the files in the folder FIRST – then you copy the files into that folder. Once you do that it just works!

It is odd to me, but it works and that is what matters.

Special thanks to Richard Banks for pointing out this solution to me