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Migration Checklist

• Team Workflows

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• Determine how builds will run

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• Determine when tests will run

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• Develop a release management process

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• Move your code reviews to pull requests

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• Branching Strategy

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• Pick a Git branching strategy

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• Document the branching strategy, including why it was selected and how legacy branches map

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• History

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• Decide how long to keep legacy VC running 

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• Identify branches which need to migrate

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• If needed, create “breadcrumbs” to help engineers navigate back to the legacy system

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• Binaries and 

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• Identify which binaries and undiffable files to remove from the repo

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• Decide on an approach for large files, such as Git-LFS

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• Decide on an approach for delivering tools and libraries, such as NuGet

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• Training

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• Identify training materials

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• Plan training: events, written material, videos, etc.

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• Identify members of the team to serve as local Git experts

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• Code migration

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• Run multiple test runs to ensure the migration will go smoothly

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• Identify and communicate a time to make the cutover

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• Create the new Git repo on VSTS

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• Migrate the mainline branch first, followed by any additional branches needed

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