Stop Microsoft Git Provider in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I have some projects to work on that involve a grotesquely large csproj that is the COTS CMS application I'm extending. The project has over 16k files in it which is ridiculous but it's not something I can control, nor can I control the choice of CMS platforms. The project is in a solution... the solution is in a git repository.

With a project that large, using the source control plugin in Visual Studio 2013 means any change to a file and subsequent save results in my CPU and RAM usage spiking to a ridiculous percentage for several minutes, making the fan spin on high constantly all day and making my IDE laggy. I have a very high-end desktop replacement laptop and I'm certain throwing hardware at the problem won't make it go away. So, I go into options and set the source control provider to None... problem solved after a couple-minute lockup while VS does something.

Now for the problem... when I come in the next day and open up the solution, the plugin selection is back on Microsoft Git Provider. Is there a setting or something I can configure to tell Visual Studio (ideally for just this solution or project) to stop trying to use the integrated source control?

Answer 1

I had the same problem, I need the Work Items from TFS but I use git-tfs to manage my projects locally.

I managed to disable the built-in Visual Studio Git Provider by deleting all occurrences of those registry keys:

7FE30A77-37F9-4CF2-83DD-96B207028E1B

11b8e6d7-c08b-4385-b321-321078cdd1f8