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Need to use command line for team foundation MERGE between different workspaces

I'm using Team System with CruiseControl. When a build is successful in project $/A, I want to start a process for project $/B, but in order to do that, I need to use TF MERGE to get the latest copy of code (the files have previously been branched). I need to be able to use the command line, such as "tf merge $/A $/B" with appropriate other parms, but it balks because it needs a workspace and there is no "workspace" parm for the merge command. There are separate workspaces for the two projects. How do I accomplish the desired outcome?

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hinshelm

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dgroves

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Please elaborate. Are you saying that if $/B is mapped to c:\dir\dir2 on PC SWGroup, that I should navigate to that folder using the command line, and then execute the merge from that spot?

dgroves

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Well, a little more (actually, a lot more) digging turned up the answer; there are two steps, following the navigation to the proper mapped folder (as previously suggested):
cd c:\basedir\projectdir
tf merge /recursive /noprompt /nosummary /force "$/sourceproject" "$/targetproject"
tf checkin /comment:"Merged from sourceproject" /recursive /noprompt

So I guess the only answer above was actually enough to get me going. Thanks.