February 2009 - Posts

• How to: Port a specific changeset?

  Merge enables you to specify a range of versions to merge over. This means that you can merge a range of versions without the need to merge previous versions. For example, if file foo is at version 10 in the source branch and is at version 6 in the target Read More... Posted Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:00 PM by mohamedg | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTF, Source Control, How To

• How to: Find the latest version of an item?

  for /f usebackq %i in (`tf hist itemSpec /i /stopafter:1`) do @if %i neq Changeset if %i neq --------- echo %i Read More... Posted Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:36 PM by mohamedg | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTF, Source Control, How To

• Merge Change Type vs Merge, Branch Change Type

  While merging merging branches, you may see change types like "merge" and "merge, branch". When you merge an item to a non-existent namespace, this will be a (merge, branch) change type. A (merge) change type occurs when there's a conflict to be resolved Read More... Posted Saturday, February 28, 2009 10:26 PM by mohamedg | 0 Comments Filed under: VSTF, Source Control