Visual Studio TFS Git not seeing any changes

Question

I\'m not getting something about Visual Studio\'s Git for TFS.

I cloned a colleague\'s solution in Git on TFS and started adding code. I then realised that I needed

Answer 1

I had to add this line to my .gitignore:

[path to project]/node_modules/

Apparently VS2015 was crashing on some very long path in there and would just decide to give up all hope