Orcas Workspace Mapping Improvements

tfsvcs — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:52:00 GMT

I thought I would give you an overview of the workspace mapping improvements which Brian Harry mentioned in his TFS roadmap post. Please do keep in mind that any of this might change / be removed before Orcas ships - so there are no guarantees.

History: In DevDiv our branches are enormous , a developer typically maps only portions of the tree they need to work on. Upon analysis we determined an average workspace had 100+ mappings. To reduce the performance and maintenance overhead of a large number of mappings we are introducing the following features.

1. Mappings under Cloaks

This will allow you to cloak a top level folder and map individual folders beneath it.

e.g. Cloak $/proj/privatedirs

Map $/proj/privatedirs/johndoe d:\dd\privatedirs\johndoe

2. One Level Mappings

This will allow you to map all immediate child items of a folder (any sub folders & items will not be mapped locally)

e.g.

$/proj/dir/

$/proj/dir/file1.txt

$/proj/dir/file2.txt

$/proj/dir/dir2

$/proj/dir/dir2/file2.txt

A one level mapping, will end up getting only the items under $/proj/dir (i.e. file1.txt, file2.txt, dir2 will be created - but no items below it will be downloaded)

Map $/proj/dir/* d:\dd\dir

These features will allow for more complex workspace definition, and allow users to cloak out larger portions of the tree they do not need (improving get performance)

Cheers,

Chandru

Team Foundation - Version Control Server Team : Team Foundation Server

Orcas Workspace Mapping Improvements