When you shelve the changes, there is a checkbox towards the bottom “Preserve pending changes locally”. Uncheck that and it will undo the checkouts on the files as it builds the Shelf. Also, once a shelf is created you can safely undo the checkouts yourself; Same result but I consider the checkbox a little safer … Read more
I absolutely agree this is a greatly missed feature in 2017 and up. After too many times of doing this manually, I decided to add it to my (free) Visual Studio Extension called ‘MultiMerge’. You can now right-click a shelveset and choose your target branch. There’s a VS2017 version and VS2019. Or you can simply … Read more
You can do this from right within Visual Studio – if you open Team Explorer and go to Source Control, you can compare folders recursively (even ones you don’t have in your workspace.) Simply navigate to one of the branches, right click and select Compare and enter the other branch as the target.
Just delete the .git folder (this one is normally hidden) in the root folder (f.e. via Windows Explorer). This deletes all things related to git. After that add the code to your TFS project and check it in into TFS.
TFS keeps a hash and some additional information on all file in the workspace so that it can do change tracking for Local Workspaces and quickly detect the changes in the files. It also contains the compressed baseline for your files. Binary files and already compressed files will clog up quite a bit of space. … Read more
Disclaimer: I started the git-tf project and although the project is now in very capable hands without me as a frequent contributor, you should absolutely consider my opinions on this to be strongly biased. (And, assuming you’re on Windows, perhaps unexpected.) There are two fundamental differences between the two tools: git-tfs was built for Windows … Read more
Your answer is on a MSDN blog by Buck Hodges: How to determine the latest changeset in your workspace from the root (top) of your workspace, in cmd perform: tf history . /r /noprompt /stopafter:1 /version:W
Update Since 2013 a lot has happened: Microsoft has added ssh support to Team Foundation Server, Azure DevOps Server and Azure DevOps. Visual studio 2019 16.8+ ships with a completely revamped git client. Microsoft has moved its own internal products off of TFVC. Windows and Office sources now live in Git in Azure DevOps. Microsoft … Read more
TFS has a “Reconcile” command for this: Open the Source Control Explorer Right-click on the folder with the changes and choose Compare Select the files you want to reconcile (press CTRL+A to select all files) Click on the Reconcile button Set the options in the Reconcile Folder Differences dialog. Make sure Files that do not … Read more
If you have TFS Power Tools installed, you can run this in a command prompt: tfpt searchcs to get a GUI window with options to search by committer and comment text. I’m using TFS Power Tools (March 2011 version) and TFS 2010.