Move and Rename are aliases. There is absolutely no difference, in any version of TFS, from the command line or the UI. Both of them preserve history. At least in 2005/2008, you keep the same physical item in the VersionedItem table no matter how often or how drastically the name and/or parent path changes. There … Read more
tf diff /shelveset:shelveset /format:unified Edit: This writes to standard output. You can pipe the output to a file. For more options, see Difference Command.
I use Mercurial to develop FsCheck, a unit testing framework hosted in codeplex. I am currently the only developer, but occasionally people send me patches. Concretely, I have one folder in my filesystem called “FsCheck”. In that, I have one repository, and thus folder, called main. Typically, I have a few folders next to that … Read more
For the following operation, you will need to be either a project administrator for the project you want to undo the check-in on or a Team Foundation Administrator if you want to do this across all projects. If you still have the username of the person, you can simply do something like this: Open up … Read more
Revision Control is the more generic term, used for source-control tools but also for other tools (Word, OpenOffice, …). It references a version. Source Control offers revision control with branching and merging which are not always available in all revision tools (Word is not a Source Control, but offer revision control features) Version Control is … Read more
using templates is simple: $ hg log –template “{rev}: {file_dels}\n”
Bitbucket already supports marking issues on commit using the Issues service. The issues service scans commit messages for commands which will automatically change the state of the relevant issue on the tracker. [snip] Examples: “… fixes #4711 …” # marks issue as resolved “… reopening bug 4711…” # marks issue as open “… refs ticket … Read more
hg revert will do the trick. It will revert you to the last commit. –all will revert all files. See the link for the Man Page description of it. hg update is usually used to refresh your working directory after you pull from a different repo or swap branches. hg up myawesomebranch. It also can … Read more
I would say something like Git might fit the bill: As it’s a distributed system, you don’t need to have a central repository, the repos exist with the source directory It is easy to create patch files that can be mailed and applied. Although it might seem that git is difficult to use, the basic … Read more
You can find a good comparison between ClearCase and Git in my SO answer: “What are the basic ClearCase concepts every developer should know?“, illustrating some major differences (and some shortcomings of ClearCase) File-centric operations The most single important shortcoming of ClearCase is its old “file-centric” approach (as opposed to “repository-centric” like in SVN or … Read more