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I wonder if it's possible to combine Visual Studio Team Services and/or TFS with a GitHub repository. We think both products have their own advantages and would like to work on one repo within our company.
The reason to use VSTS / TFS is the integration in Visual Studio for Work Items.
Another option would be the successor to TFS, now known as Azure DevOps. This solution is essentially the same TFS that you have grown to know and "love", while adding the option to use GitHub, a Git Repository that is private to your organization, or VSTS as your code repository, while still tracking the work items, builds, code changes, and being able to tie them all together, in much the same way that you already do. The latest version also has Markdown support, and the ability to build your change management plan by simply linking the work items, bugs and code changes together under a given User Story, even in a hybrid environment, where some stuff is in the cloud, but there's other stuff that get's kept inside the company firewall.
There's so much more than would do the solution justice here. Go check out Microsoft Azure DevOps, and see for yourself just how versatile it is!
As you have not written much about what your aim is to achieve from both i have used them to get these benefits.
TFS:
GITHUB:
The problem in using both is that you are splitting up the code flow and issue/requirement flow. For my project I realised that requirements are more tightly bound to code changes while issues may likely be around documentation, lack of training etc so I used github features to tackle customer side of things while actual product development was kept on TFS.
Both github and TFS can achieve this on its own so no point in mixing them if you dont need to.
