I'm using Visual Studio 2019 with the new Git menu interface.
My project is all in an OnPremise TFS git repository.
When I add new files, they don't get the red checkmark.
git status shows them in the Untracked section.
I know I can to git add on each file to add them to the Tracked section but since everything else goes very fine within Visual Studio, I was wondering what is the right way to do this without relying on the CLI.
I thought of 2 ways:
have a preference to get all new files tracked by default
have a contextual menu to start to add the new file to the tracked section (like TFVC had)
I searched in the Preferences window, in the Solution explorer pane and also in the Git Modifications pane but wasn'T able to find it anywhere.
Is git add the only actual option?
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I've added a folder with asp.net core project which isn't supported by Visual Studio 2015 (which is used for everything else) and thus not included to the general solution.
To have those files in source control I had to manually add them using "add items to folder" command in source explorer. So they are checked-in but tfs not tracking changes for them anymore although there are differences that are shown if compare to the latest folder on the server:
How do I make TFS track them and show pending changes for edited files?
According to your description, looks like these files are all out side of Visual Studio.
Not sure if you are using server workspace or local workspace.
When adding or editing the workspace you click Advanced >> . There is a setting of Location: Local/Server.
For local workspace, when your script or anything else changes files outside Visual Studio, your workspace detects the changes automatically.
It also detects adds or deletes but you have to include them to your Pending Changes manually with the link under Excluded Changes.
For server workspace, you could choose to use Reconcile command. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/22860674/932282 for a complete answer.
Besides, you could also take a look at other solutions in below similar question:
How to have TFS 2010 detect changes done to files outside of Visual Studio?
Force TFS to detect changes
I think you just added them to source explorer and not to the solution, as you said. In this case, there is no editor application (even your VS) that is responsible for doing the check-out operation because they are not aware of TFS. On the other side, TFS can detect that changes have happened to the files but can not track them.
If you do not activate the "Get the latest version before check-out" option in your team project, then you can go to the source control and check-out those files manually and then check-in them manually again when your work with them is done.
Please before doing this, take a backup of your source code for caution.
In the past, we seem to have created a TFS repository that was not part of a project. It seems that this is no longer supported by TFS in recent versions.
After updating TFS 2013 to 2015 and then 2017 we did not immediately notice the problem, but looking in the Collection Management screen on the web portal shows that the "Project" (which is not a project) is marked in a "Deleting" status.
The Microsoft page about this says that if you want to keep the code, no action needs to be taken. That "Deleting" status worries me however.
Is there any way to add an existing repo to a project? I can create a new project. I can add a new repo to a project. Can I add an existing repo to a project?
Alternatively, can I "Un-Deleting" that repo somehow?
That page have described this very clear:
Otherwise, no action is required. Placeholder team projects are
hidden in Web Access and Team Explorer in Visual Studio. Therefore,
they have no significant effect on day-to-day usage. As with any
other deleted item in Version Control, you can still access the
corresponding project in Source Control Explorer if the Show/Hide
Deleted Items button is enabled.
As you said, Placeholder team projects are not real team projects. When you delete a real team project, it will permanently removes data associated with that project from the database. You cannot recover it later.
They are just as deleted folders/items in TFS, you could undelete them in Visual Studio Source Control. Just select the deleted folders and right click it select undelete , and check in pending changes. Then you could get/download all files in the repo to local. Create a new team project, add files to the project, finally delete the particular placeholder project.
Since there is no way to import deleted files to either a existing project or a new project. Above is a safety workaround, the only disadvantage is it will lose the source control history of those folders. Otherwise, you could also take no action as the page suggested, the Placeholder team project will not be deleted. If you encounter any problem about this, you could contact the TFS support.
Using TFS everywhere. Editing files without "checkout for edit".
after it, unable to see edited files list in "TFVC pending changes" window.
Try to see if your project is Offline, that is the behavior when your project is not connected with the TFS.
1- Right-click on the solution name right at the top of the Solution Explorer and select the Go Online option
2- If that doens't help, please check your connections to the tfs through the Team Menu -> Manage Connections.
3- If still happens, try to restart the Visual Studio
You are using Team explorer everywhere. Try to check whether your project is offline:
Right click your project > Team > Return Online.
BTW, the project will be offline if you switch workspace to other that isn’t include that project.
Update:
Pending changes window > Click Actions > Detect Local Changes, then the modified file (tracked by source control) in current workspace will be included in Included Changes
I am using Visual Studio 2013. Regarding TFS workflow, there are issues I have when working on a bug or work item, after I am finished, I move the changes into a shelfset for further review, undo my changes by right clicking on the pending changes and clicking undo. The move on to the next issue or enhancement. The shelfsets can be indpendendly reviewed and then applied to whatever branch they are currently needed.
The problem I have is that undoing through visual studio does not completely reset the solution to a completely clean state. There are often orphaned files around or projects that have references to non-existing files or other such problems. I'd like to be able to completely nuke and reset my solutions from source control as if I am a new developer and I have not found an easy solution to do this.
Currently, the only way I can accomplish this is to go to "Source Control Explorer" remove the file system mapping for the project. Go to the file system, removed the folder. Go back into "Source Control Explorer" add the mappings back in. And then "Get Latest Version".
Is there an easy way to completely reset a solution in Visual Studio with TFS?
You can achieve this in Visual Studio 2010 without Power Tools. Process is likely similar for other VS versions.
Open the Source Control Explorer. Right-click the entry you want to reset, then choose "Get Specific Version." Select the version you want to reset to. Ensure that the two checkboxes are checked:
☑ Overwrite writeable files that are not checked out
☑ Overwrite all files even if the local version matches the specified version
This will overwrite all locally mapped files with the server's version. (And will correspondingly take time proportionate to the number of files.) I do not believe that this operation will remove any unmapped files.
If you have the Power Tools installed, call tfpt scorch /deletes /recursive /diff. That should make your local folder match the server exactly.
You can also call tfpt treeclean, which will just delete any item that is not mapped to TFS. It won't update or replace any changed files though, like scorch will.
I'm an experienced SVN user getting used to TFS at a new client site. The main problem I've had adjusting to the new tool is this - how can I get a listing of all files in my working copy that have changed from current/latest server revision, including added or deleted files?
Essentially, I'm looking for the TFS equivalent of an "svn diff". The "TF" command-line tool has a "diff" command which reports changed files but I can't find an option to report deleted or added files; this missing feature has resulted in a couple check-ins which (embarrassingly) broke the build.
Which version of TFS?
TFS2010 has a folder compare command, File > Source Control > Compare... (or in the Source Control Explorer, right-click on the project path you're interested in, and select Compare...).
Set up the Source path to be a folder on the server and the Target path to be a local folder in your workspace (or vice versa). Under View Options, select Show items that exist only in source path, Show items that exist only in target path and Show items that are different and click OK.
Is there any reason you can't use the Source Control Explorer?
If you right click on the folder, project or branch you can click Compare and you will see all files that have been deleted or added.
I usually do the following:
Open your Team Explorer tab in Visual Studio and click on Pending Changes.
There you will see your changed files.