How to get Visual Studio to Fetch incoming commits automatically

I got a different but approaching need (I used git-tf on a big project, git tf fetch was taking too long, so I did it in the background to speed up git tf pull command). I poll every 10 minutes, and show the differences visually in the command line. Maybe this can help you:

I use a powershell script to poll:

function backgroundfetch
{
    while ($true)
    {
        # Get latest
        git fetch;
        # Clear console
        cls;
        # Leave space for progress bar
        for ($i=0; $i -le 6; $i++) {Write-Host;} 
        # Show commit differences between master and origin/master
        git lgori;
        # Show progress bar before next fetch
        for ($i=0; $i -le 1000; $i++)
        {
                Write-Progress -Activity "Sleeping" -status ("{0:0.00} minutes remaining" -f ((1000-$i)/100)) -percentComplete ($i/10);
                Start-Sleep -s 0.6;
        }
    }
}

And 2 git aliases

• git lg: a pretty git log alias with graph
• git lgori: to show visually the commit differences between master and origin/master, using the first alias

in .gitconfig:

[alias]
    lg = log --graph --format=format:'%C(yellow)%h%C(reset) %C(bold green)(%ar)%C(reset) %C(white)%s%C(reset) %C(bold white)- %an%C(reset)%C(bold blue)%d%C(reset)' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
    lgori = !git lg HEAD origin/master --not `git merge-base HEAD origin/master`^