How do you remove Microsoft Git Provider?

Question

I'm having an issue with VS2013 which I had connected to my visual studio online account, and was using TFS source control just fine up until I installed Git. Now it seems that "Microsoft Git Provider" keeps overriding my settings for source control even after I manually change it back to TFS, or none then TFS. So now I just want to remove it all together. I tried uninstalling everything Git related, but it still remains. I even uninstalled VS2013 completely, then reinstalled, and it's still there.

Answer 1

I used procmon to see that this dll was being accessed by visual studio when switching to the Microsoft Git Provider.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Git.Provider.dll"

I edited the permissions for the dll so that the user "Everyone" had no permissions for it, and VisualStudio stopped switching back To "Microsoft Git Provider" every time at startup. Doing this means even if you try to select "Microsoft Git Provider" for the current source control plugin it does nothing and instead just shows your previous selection.

Answer 2

Update 2:

Here's an extension that disables MS Git provider on opening a git solution: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/146b404a-3c91-46ff-932a-fb0f8b826f94

The solution doesn't seem to work anymore (as also mentioned in the blog post):

For the ones running into this article and wanting to disable the provider for other reasons (performance or files being read-only for refactoring by Resharper), I did run into this registry hack to permanently remove the MS GIT source control provider:

https://blog.rendle.io/disable-the-git-source-control-add-in-in-vs2013-permanently/

tl;dr:

• close VS2013 then delete this whole key (or the one with a GitSCCProvider value under it):

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config\SourceControlProviders\{11b8e6d7-c08b-4385-b321-321078cdd1f8}

• Search the registry for the same GUID 11b8e6d7-c08b-4385-b321-321078cdd1f8 and remove those values or entries too.

Edit:

if you need to use a TFS GIT repository and related information from Team Explorer (like builds, etc), don't delete the GIT SCC provider because that will break too.