My current gig uses Visual Studio 2008 and TFS 2008 (project is .NET CF 3.5, hence the requirement for the legacy versions of everything). I have the TFS Power Tools installed, with the Windows Explorer shell integration, and it's pretty good, for the most part, except that it seems to be missing a few core options, namely being able to view a file/folder's check-in history. Newer versions of the TFPT have it, but not 2008 (at least, not that I have been able to find).
My last gig used SVN, and I really liked the power and freedom that TortoiseSVN gave me. I know that such an animal as "TortoiseTFS" does not exist, but I have been reading up on SVNBridge, and thought I might give that a try, since Tortoise has an excellent "View Log" feature that I quickly came to rely upon.
So, that being said, here is my question: Can TortoiseSVN/SVNBridge peacefully coexist with the default TFS source control plugin for Visual Studio? Idea would be to primarily use the TFS plugin for checkins, shelving and whatnot (since we have gated check-ins), but use TortoiseSVN for Explorer functions (updates, "checkouts", history, etc)?
I see from other discussions that people have gotten Tortoise and Ankh to live together happily, so I'm optimistic, but I'm thinking this might be a different animal. I might just throw it on my dev box and tinker, but figured I'd ask to see if anyone else had played around with this before I did. Thoughts?
TortoiseSVN integrates with Windows Explorer, not Visual Studio. Therefore plug-ins for Visual Studio shouldn't conflict with it.