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Migration Checklist

• Team Workflows

• Determine how builds will run

• Determine when tests will run

• Develop a release management process

• Move your code reviews to pull requests

• Branching Strategy

• Pick a Git branching strategy

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

• History

• Decide how long to keep legacy VC running 

• Identify branches which need to migrate

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

• Binaries and 

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

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

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

• Training

• Identify training materials

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

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

• Code migration

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

• Identify and communicate a time to make the cutover

• Create the new Git repo on VSTS

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

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