How to upgrade GIT to latest version in Visual Studio Team Services?

You need to upgrade your local git client. you should use the following command for upgrade git from the console.

for versions between 2.14.2 and 2.16.1

C:\> git update

for version above 2.16.1

git update-git-for-windows

If you have chocolatey installed, run >choco upgrade git in command prompt.

No, Visual Studio Team Services is telling you that you need to upgrade your local Git client. VSTS is safely running a custom Git implementation that you cannot modify.

If you're on Windows, visit https://git-for-windows.github.io/ and install the latest version.