Hi,
From time to time I'm getting project folders with a lot of changes from outsourcer developer and need to merge the files
with my project.
I'm using TFS 2005 and it seems that it shows changed files that were changed inside VS but if
I copy + overwrite files using windows explorer it does not show which files were changed.
If I click on Compare for a certain file it will find the changes but I should go file by file and my project contains many files ...
How can I get a list of the files that were actually changed?
Thanks
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From time to time I'm getting project folders with a lot of changes from outsourcer developer and need to merge the files
with my project.
Are you using branches ?, or do you just overwrite files ?
if you will check out the files first from VS, then overwrite the folder in explorer (after backing it up of course) , then check the folder back in , you should have proper history as already mentioned.
you can also review the changes using the Changeset number.
What you need is TFS's Power Tools for Visual Studio 2005, here:
http://go.microsoft.com/?l
Installing that adds a new context command in the right-click menu to source control explorer called Compare... which brings up the TreeDiff feature.
This will compare all the files in a folder to the server version showing which are different, which are local-only and which are server-only. You can check out and add files right from there.
This feature is built into TFS 2008.
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by: ScottyNewSuitsPosted on 2009-01-06 at 12:45:44ID: 23308999
Open Source Explorer (View -> Source Explorer) in VS 2005 and right-click on the desired TFS source directory, then click "Show History". This will give you a list of all of the changes for that source folder. If you double-click on one of those changes, it will open up a window dialogue that will show you all of the files associated with that change.