I right clicked a file and choose Source Control > Undo pending changes... in VS 2019 a List appeared and There was the selected file checked I Clicked Undo changes and a dialog appeared informing something that I choose 'yes'.
I wanted the red check mark from the file go, so that It is not checkin. and is undone Localy.
is this action did anything in the server that affect other programmers or it is only Local?
is this action did anything in the server that affect other programmers or it is only Local?
First you need to check whether the workspace is Sever or Local.
If the workspace is Server, it could affect other programmers.
If the workspace is Local, the change will only happen locally.
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When my team and I were on visual studio 2013, after successfully checking in our pending changes, the files that were checked in would be removed from the pending changes window.
Ever since upgrading to 2015, we have lost this functionallity. Now, after a successfuly check in, the pending changes will remain in the pending changes window until they are manually undone or and identical check in is undertaken in which case all of the files will sync themselves with source control and will no longer be pending changes.
When diffing the files with their counterparts in source control after a successful check in, it is clear that there are no changes between the two despite the fact they are still in the pending changes window. Is it possible that we have overlooked a simple setting that allows us to sync with TFS immediatelyafter a check in?
Thanks
Never seen your issue before. Try to upgrade your TFS and VS to the latest edition.
Also, if the pending changes are under Excluded Changes, they won't be checked in.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tfvc/develop-code-manage-pending-changes#work-with-automatically-detected-changes
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tfvc/check-your-work-team-codebase#include_exclude
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 started using TFS Team explorer 2012 and happen to notice a new process called promoting. As I understand it, the Team Explorer detect any changes made to the files outside of the TFS explorer and count them for promotion? Am I right?
How do I take care of the situation where I made a change to the file which is already checked out through TFS, then made a change via Windows Explorer\Notepad but dont want to include the changes made through the Windows Explorer\Notepad.
This is a new feature of TFS 2012 called Local Workspaces.
You are correct in that changes made outside of visual studio can be included in the check-in by promoting them, if they are not already under source control.
If they are already in source control and you do not want to commit them, then you would need to right click the file and choose Exclude. This will move the file from Included Changes into Excluded Changes.
If you do not like the new Local Workspaces you can tell TFS to go back to the old model of Server Workspaces:
Open Team Explorer
Go to Settings
Under Team Project Collection select Source Control
Click the Workspace Settings Tab
Here you can choose the workspace type.
While everything that discens said is correct, one thing bears explicit mention: there is no change to the level of granularity of Team Foundation Server. You still check out files and edit files and check-in files.
In your example, if you have a file checked out and you edit it in Notepad, the changes will be checked in. There is no change here from previous behaviors. There is no way to keep these changes from being checked in, short of saving the file with a different file name.
TFS shows some pending changes under my name, but I have not changed anything. When I check in and see View Pending changes, I see some of the changes which I have never made, changes pending under some other user might be shown as my pending changes. When I unselect and check-in my changes, these are still locked under my name? Is this due to auto-checkout or any other reason? (TFS policy requires a compile before check-in)
This is probably due to the automatic checkout feature in TFS.
TFS uses an atomic check-in process and is very careful about recording who did what. When you start editing a file (or the IDE edits one on your behalf, for example a .csproj or .vbproj file) then the file will show up in your pending changes list to show you that you have the file checked out with an edit pending.
To see your pending changes list, go to View, Other Windows, Pending Changes in Visual Studio.
To check-in any pending changes you can right click on the file in solution explorer or you can select it in the pending changes view. Only then will the change be committed into version control. From the pending changes view you can compare with the server version to see what changes you have made.
To see the changes that have been committed to the server you can right click on a file or folder and select "View History".
If you want to remove the pending change and restore the file to what it was before you edited it you can right click on the file and select "Undo Pending Changes".
If you want to change the auto check-out behaviour to prompt you before it performs a check-out, then go to Tools, Options, Source Control, Environment and change the Checked-in items for Saving and Editing to "Prompt for check out" rather than the default which is "Check out automatically".
Hope that helps,
Martin.
I've had a similar issue; TFS still says I've got pending changes that when I compare declares as being identical. This post comes up with a way to prune out all the identical ones and to leave you with only the files that actually have changed.
The problem might have to do with different workspaces that you use or have used possibly on different computers. Check the workspaces that exist and see if the files are checked out anywhere else. Here the sidekick tool mentioned in a comment can help.
In TFS Source Control Explorer it shows pending changes (edit,[more]) with my name, but the Pending Changes window does not show any pending changes.
What I thought is, months ago my Visual Studio crashed, and at that time some files were checked out (which I was not aware of, due to the automatic checkout nature of TFS). Due to that, I copied a new VMImage, without undoing the pending changes (which are currently showing in Source Control Explorer).
One of my team members wants to checkin a new version of that particular file. Now, I need to undo my pending changes.
It sounds like you have them checked out under a different workspace. Try going to View->Other Windows->Source Control Explorer, then open the Workspace dropdown near the top of the screen, and select "Workspaces..."
I would suggest simply deleting any extra workspaces shown.
Steps to reproduce:
Make non-conflicting edits to files in TFS.
Get the latest version of the project from source control.
Sometimes, pending changes will be marked as non-pending and all project files are saved, resulting in no pending changes in the Team Explorer.
Workaround:
Right-click on the solution folder in source code explorer
Select "Compare"
In the search results, manually open files which have been edited/added and save them. This will register them as a "Pending Change" in team explorer.
This is because TFS apparently uses file properties rather than actual text comparisons to register pending changes in Visual Studio.
Tested on: Windows 7, Visual Studio Ultimate 2012.
Additional feedback from my supervisor: "Not sure if it was the issue this time, but that can happen when you disconnect from the TFS server (which sometimes happens without it being obvious). File | Source Control | Go Online usually fixes it (and the option isn’t available if you are online)."
TFS is buggy everywhere. i think you need to check out the parent folder and use TFS power toys to undo all the rubbish unchanged item.
TFS use file property to indicate whether or not a file has change, which sucks the most, and produce tons of usability problem.
If the file that you checked out is not part of the current solution, it might be hidden by the "Filter by solution" toolbar button on the Pending Changes window.
Get your changed files check out for edit
I had the same problem, I re-started VS, opened the solution and all the changes are now being displayed in the pending changes window.
Did you try to checkout the file from the Source Control Explorer view ?
For me, it worked.
I have just had a similar issue in VS2012.
To resolve the issue, I toggled the "Show xxx" dropdown to "Show Solution Changes" and then back to "Show All". The files that were missing from the list then re-appeared.
I was having a similar problem and it was due to the fact that my local version was a "non-version control solution" for some reason! meaning that my local was not really connected to the actual source code on tfs.
fix: Got the latest with override option checked. I know this could be painful if you had a lot of changes made to your local.
I was facing same issue the first answer was really helpfull. But make sure to check "Show Remote Workspaces" if you are working from different computer. In my cases the files where checked in and edited from home computer and it was showing pending changes. Deleting unwanted workspaces helps to solve this problem.
a different workspace on the same machine
a different workspace on another machine
TeamExplorer -> PendingChanges -> Excluded Changes ( I included this only because you didn't specifically mention they weren't there)
especially if you right clicked a node in solution explorer and chose check-in
Filtered based on TeamExplorer Settings #Oliver
Use a Tfs Query to find the pending changes and what workspace they are pending from.
Another option is to permanently or temporarily give them permissions to overwrite your lock. Then he can check-in anyhow.
I've seen this problem. Sometimes when I have the pending changes window in 'flat display mode', it doesn't display my changes. I find if I click the toolbar icon at the top of the pending changes window with tooltip 'Change to folder view', then they display. I think this is a bug in the Team Explorer Client.
sometimes I can not lock a branch because users have things checked out, but when I ask them about it, the pending merges/changes, only folders come up with no objects to change. What's with that?