VS/TFS 2012 Tidbits: Merging Changes by Work Item

re: VS/TFS 2012 Tidbits: Merging Changes by Work Item

M.Radwan-MVP — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:56:53 GMT

thanks for tip

re: VS/TFS 2012 Tidbits: Merging Changes by Work Item

StevenLange — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:11:28 GMT

@Colin - I don't know that there's a convenient way to merge by multiple work items at a time. Some might argue that merging changesets that are related to different work items all at the same time could reduce the discrete traceability of change propogation. By merging one work item's changes at a time, you maintain complete traceability, and make it easier to roll out (or roll back) a specific work item change.

But I do get what you mean - Perhaps there's a CodePlex or VS Gallery utility that can help you?

Thanks for your comment!

re: VS/TFS 2012 Tidbits: Merging Changes by Work Item

Colin Dembovsky — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:25:22 GMT

Hi Steven - I didn't know you could track by work item until I read this post - great tip!

This allows you to merge 1 work item easily - I think there's still some folk who want to be able to merge more than 1 work item at a time. So to use your example, you're tracking Task 80 (and merging changesets 17 & 18). What if I wanted to merge all the changesets for Task 80, 82, 85 and 87?