For Team Foundation Server, when requesting source for the entire solution, is asking by Changeset equivalent to asking by Date checked in of the same changeset? That is, are all files retrieved in both cases, or if by Changeset, only the files in the Changeset are retrieved, where if by Date, all files are retrieved as of that date.
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So if I do a force GET of a specific Changeset will also retrieve files of that Changeset, and in addition bring in all files that are of the date of that Changeset, regardless of whether those files are newer or older than the ones in the solution. If so, then with a force GET, it will bring my solution back to the state when the Changeset was checked in. Is this correct?
Yes, This is my understanding as well.
however if you wish to have absolute control over this particular feature of TFS, I would suggest you check the command line options of the command TF GET
from visual studio command prompt type tf get /?
also the below link should help
http://msdn.microsoft.
tf
[/preview] [/recursive] [/noprompt]
tf get $solution name /version:C12345
should get from source control all file versions up to the Changeset 12345
For the sake of accuracy, and because this command is sometimes very helpful, you can use the below command to issue a get command for a single changeset, your workspace is not updated with anything else.
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the power toys provide other valuable commands like the rollback one.among others.
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by: Admin3kPosted on 2009-10-13 at 08:23:17ID: 25560954
if you try to get a specific version with Changeset, TFS will check the file version of the entire solution you chose to update & will update the source files in your workspace if the file version checked in to TFS is newer than the ones in your workspace, if the files are the same , no action is done.
basically they will do the same thing, you can confirm this by getting a specific version of a changeset, and compare it to a specific version of the exact time /date of the same checkin
Note: if a file was deleted or Modified outside of source control, accidental deletion,etc.. TFS will not detect it was modified and thus will not update it, so you will need to FORCE the get from the get specific dialog box.
Forcing the GET will update the files in your workspace regardless of the File version in your workspace.
Please let me know if I misunderstood you , or if any further clarification is needed.