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Its support of TFVC features is very mature, since it uses the Visual Studio assemblies for operations with servers.
This does mean you'll need access to those assemblies, which means you need to install a recent version of Visual Studio (any edition since version 2010, including Express since version 2012), or the Visual Studio SDK.

Git-tf (whose home is at https://gittf.codeplex.com[]) is a Java project, and as such runs on any computer with a Java runtime environment.
[CAUTION]
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Git-tf is End-of-Life (EOL), it will not get any updates.
It is also no longer supported by Microsoft.
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Git-tf (whose home is at https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=gittf[]) is a Java project, and as such runs on any computer with a Java runtime environment.
It interfaces with Git repositories through JGit (a JVM implementation of Git), which means it has virtually no limitations in terms of Git functions.
However, its support for TFVC is limited as compared to git-tfs – it does not support branches, for instance.

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You'll need access to a TFVC-based repository to follow along with these instructions.
These aren't as plentiful in the wild as Git or Subversion repositories, so you may need to create one of your own.
Codeplex (https://www.codeplex.com[]) or Visual Studio Online (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com[]) are both good choices for this.
Codeplex (https://archive.codeplex.com/[]) or Visual Studio Online (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com[]) are both good choices for this.
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