TFS 2008 SP1: New setting to delete a build without deleting the build label

Turn off label deletion when deleting builds

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Blog - by Neno Loje — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:50:12 GMT

By default a build label is deleted when the corresponding build gets deleted. In TFS 2008 SP1 you can

re: TFS 2008 SP1: New setting to delete a build without deleting the build label

Buck Hodges — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:12:23 GMT

Andrew, what you are describing is different than what's described in the post. While we don't have what you are requesting in TFS 2008, we do have that in TFS 2010 where you can specify the parts of the build that you want deleted.

Buck

re: TFS 2008 SP1: New setting to delete a build without deleting the build label

Andrew Myhre — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:45:48 GMT

Hi there,

When you say 'build labels' are you talking about source control labelling?

The behaviour I'm finding undesirable is that I only want to retain the outputs for perhaps 1 or 2 successful builds in a continuous integration scenario, but I do want a complete history of things like changesets, test runs etc - in order words I want to keep the build report. I take it what you're getting at in your post is a seperate thing?

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