TFS as source-control: what do you love? what do you hate?

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I've used TFS for about 18 months now and I'm really not excited about it. It seems like the worst of the current versions of SCMs on the market.

I think this thread will help people decide if TFS is for them vs. other source control systems. While TFS does a lot more than that, I think that source control is so critical to software development that any system (or combination thereof) that you pick needs to consider source control first.

What are the good things about TFS vs. other source controls -- what does it do well that no one else does?

What are the things that TFS is bad at that everyone else seems to do just fine?

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