sorry, help me understand here. How does something who's only method of control is tied to the ide you use keeping any control over the source code?
you can still use git-tfs to use tfs like you would use svn. you can also just copy the file to another folder and suddenly everything is good. or you use time machine or another other backup mechanism.
Do i miss something magic that tfs does, that I don't understand?
I can't speak for TFS, so maybe they do something daft, but it's usual that when you get latest from the server you simply won't get the files you aren't allowed to. You won't even see them. It's access control at a finer grain than the repository level, applied on the server side.
(with git always giving you the whole repository, there's not much you could do with git, but but many systems don't do that.)
I've never used TFS but my understanding is that TFS server allows you to configure it to only give a specific person access to a specific set of files.
For example: One could tell the TFS server "Deny Contractor-X access to all files, except for files A, B, and C". I assume that this would only allow Contractor-X to access files A, B, and C. Even if they were using git-tfs.
you can still use git-tfs to use tfs like you would use svn. you can also just copy the file to another folder and suddenly everything is good. or you use time machine or another other backup mechanism.
Do i miss something magic that tfs does, that I don't understand?