I am trying to merge all my TFS Projects into a single project, as recommended.
However, all the tools seem pre TFS 11 (2012), and haven't been updated since.
Can anyone point me in the correct direction?
TFS Integration Tool can helps you. It works fine with TFS2013 for workitem and source control migration.
If you mean to integrate only the source code of multiple team projects into a team projects with in single collection then you can use Move version control operations to move source code.
If you want to migrate work items as well then you need to use TFS Integration tools.
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I have a project under the TFS account provided by my company. I want to copy the project under my personal TFS account so that I can play with it and do some changes for learning.
How can I do this?
It totally depends on what you want to do.
Executing a complete migration can be hard. You need specialized tooling like the TFS Integration Tools.
Probably the easiest solution is to do a snapshot migration of your source code (where you lose all history). Migrating work items can be done by using Excel and some copy/paste work.
Currently there are no out of the box options for migrating build definitions (although the build workflows are part of source control), test results and release templates.
If possible, just migrate your source code and the work items if you have them.
UPDATE
If you only want to migrate source code without history you can do this by taking a copy of the source code from TFS and then checking it into your new TFS server. Have a look at Understanding TFS migrations from on-premises to Visual Studio Online – Part 2: Walkthrough for a walkthrough created by the ALM Rangers to help you with this.
Is there any way to move/migrate team projects of a Team project collection from one TFS server to another (both in TFS 2010 version). The destination Team Project collection contains a Team Project already and I want to move the source Team projects in to this particular team projects. So at the end I will have a Team Project which contains several projects in it. Is that possible? I want the history to be preserved as well.
If the above scenario is not possible, can I migrate Team projects from one server to another without going through the database backup-restore-TFS detach-attach process?
I thought of trying the TFSIntegration tool, but could see many people advised to avoid using this due to issues in it.
So if you have any information in accomplishing this, that would be great..
If you want all the history then you really only have 2 options:
TFS Integration platform - http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/
Back up /restore the collection database - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd936138.aspx#Backup
I would recommend moving the database. This sounds pretty onerous but is actually quite easy.
Good Luck!
TFS INTEGRATION PLATFORM used for integration.
A tool which helps a lot named "witAdminUi".
I need to create a new project from an existing one in TFS. This is for source control only. I do not need to copy any work items.
so now i need to create NewTeamProject in NewProjectCollection and use the source branch of OldTeamProject in OldProjectCollection.
Kindly advise to go ahead with this.. Thanks a lot for your help in advance..
Manual Split
Create a new team project in your existing collection
Pick the branch from team project option in the creation wizard
Follow the split a team project collection guidance
However, I have a feeling that this will not bring all the history along with it, and it's not a particularly nice option, especially when it comes to the collection splitting.
TFS Integration Tools
Another way is to use the tfs integration platform, which basically replays all the checkins on a new team project, which can be in your new collection. You will lose the original date/time of the checkin, due to the way this program works but will still be able to see what each checkin changed.
TFS Integration Tools
Tfs integration tools blog posts and references
There is one risky way to get your timestamps correct, by manually updating the database
is there a (simple) way to move a single TeamProject from one collection to another (in one server) in TFS 2010? Including source code, work items, documents, project site...
No not really simple, you can split a collection and creata a new collection with the team projects you move in it, but you cannot out-of-the-box merge a team project into an existing collection.
What you can do is to use the TFS integration platform http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/eb77e739-c98c-4e36-9ead-fa115b27fefe or http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com to migrate your team project over to the new collection. This is however a DataMigration that doesnt keep or even move all data, but it will move Source Code & Workitems. Moving a team project site (if needed) , including documents can be done by using the STSADM Export and Import commands, please refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288191%28v=office.12%29.aspx for more info about moving SharePoint sites
No there isn't.
But it is a requested feature: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2037613-make-it-possible-to-move-a-team-project-between-te
It is not easy, but it is doable: Split a Team Project Collection
Yes there is a feature request, but I don't think it will be shipped in the box, so the other option to use TFS Integration Platform
There is a way to move from one collection to another using git-tfs and git-tf tools, it is a kind of workaround, but works if this is really required to be done.
This is posted step-by-step here:
https://fabiostawinski.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/tfvc-to-git-to-tfvc-is-it-possible/
In VS 2013 - map both collections to some folders, and then "Move" command will be available:
We've decided to go with a different template for our team project and want to move all of source under that team project. We are not concerned with migrating work items, but we would like to keep the version history of the source files, if possible. I tried the TFS to TFS migration tool on code plex and it seems to only move the most recent version of each source file over.
We are on TFS 2008 and the team projects are on the same server.
EDIT: It looks like the move function may work. I've seen some concerns posted about whether or not this moves all the history for a given file.
If you do a move from within TFS, that should register as just another action to be saved in the history. Your other history should be kept intact, even when moving across projects.