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 this problem on a new machine with a fresh install of both VS2013 Update 5 and VS 2015 and it was driving me crazy. Then I found if I installed Git for Windows, the problem went away! https://git-for-windows.github.io/

Answer 2

Helpful article! Using Git Bash (git add -u) helped me get closer to the cause of the problem. After committing changes previously not shown in Visual Studio, only half-way commit was done because of using a SQL Server Database Project; Apparently, Windows 10 started to add jfm-files in the same folder keeping it open all the time and preventing it from beeing accessed by VS. Solution was to add it to the .gitignore before committing.

See this thread for further information:

Visual Studio 2015 Database Project directory contains a file with extension jfm

Answer 3

Open View > Output, select 'Source Control - Git' in Show Output from and check for any errors. As others mentioned, any error in Git makes MS Project silently ignore any changes.

Answer 4

I was having the same issue with Visual Studio Update 3. VS was saving locally but not picking up any changes so I couldn't commit.

I downloaded Git for Windows from https://git-for-windows.github.io/ (thanks @fhilton), opened the Developer Command Prompt and changed directory to C:\Repos\Scheduler (the location of my source code).

I then ran GET ADD -U and received the following error...

error: open("WindowsServices\Scheduler.WindowServices.InstallLog"): Permission Denied

error: unable to index file WindowsServices\Scheduler.WindowServices.InstallLog

fatal: updating files failed

As others have said, it looks like the GIT tools in Visual Studio can fail silently, even for the most basic Windows level errors. Worse, it can tell you GIT is fully in sync. Command line is certainly your friend for the time being.

Answer 5

I had the same probem and I realized the following: In order to show the changeset, As @dumbledad said, Visual Studio runs the command

git add -u 

internally for staging the updates. If some of the files that you are trying to add to your changeset is open by another process, then the git command gets a permission error. And Visual Studio won't show the changes.

In my case, I had a document in my repo that was open by another application, and that caused Visual Studio not to show the modifications because of the Git permission error. So check if any of the files of your git repository is not open by any other application.

Answer 6

delete the file myProject\.git\index.lock fixed it in my case.