“Blue pad lock icon” not showing for git projects in Visual Studio IDE

Blue lock icons and red check box

I need to confess — I am not super familiar with Visual Studio IDE as I never worked on C# related programming languages. So, when an engineer came to me asking why “blue pad lock icon” is not showing up for a project that he just migrated from a TFS (Team Foundation Server) to git, I was little confused. I had to test out to figure out what he meant.

If you see an example above, you can see “blue pad lock icon” and “red check mark” next to some files. This is really a Visual Studio way of showing that “files are checked in.” I understood this by reading this blog:

How to interpret the blue pad lock icon when using Git in Solution Explorer - 063

Now, git works little differently. You check out a branch or a file (or files) whenever you are working on it, and you then add and commit if you are ready to push the change to a remote repository.

This engineer’s question came with a following process:

1. He migrated from TFS to git using git tfs , and one TFS project got convert to one git project, noted by .git folder. He repeated this step for a number of different projects…