There is one particular change I am testing. This is ChangeSet: 123456 (let us assume). I need to get the complete solution as on the data that changeset was checked in.
If I do Get Specific Version -> By ChangeSet: 123456, I get only those files that were affected by the change set. I am unable to get the entire project.
Please help.
If you go to the source control explorer, you can select the root folder of the project and do a "Get specific version". It will do a get of all the files that are not locally of the correct version yet.
You can force to get all the files by clicking the other option to get all the files in that dialog.
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I have a problem with TFS
when I connect to a team project and configure workspace and click on Map & Get button, it shows "successfully mapped" message but there is no solution in Solutions panel, there is just a text "there were no solution found"
And when I try to get latest version or get specific version in source control explorer,it shows a message that says "all files are up to date, no file were updated because the requested file versions were previously downloaded" but there is no solution and project in mapped folder
I don't have this problem with other team projects
Does somebody know what's the reason?and what can I do to solve it?
Thanks
Edit
when I click on "map & get" for the first time,as usual a dialog box with title "calculating items to download" appears and then another dialog box with title "get", but in the second dialog box the green progress bar doesn't fill and then the message "workspace successfully mapped" appears in team explorer home and as I said before, there is no solution
To narrow down your issue, you can try below methods:
Make sure your local mapping folder is on a hard disk with enough
space.
Try to Removing the mapping of the project(Right Click your
project→Advanced→Remove mapping) and remap to another folder.
Clear TFS cache and VS cache
According to your above message
In source control explorer under "server-name/DefaultCollection" node
there is nothing
I was wondering whether there is a solution with the project in TFS.
Try to map the project on another computer with another account.
Try to make sure you have enough permissions to get the project.
Check whether you select the right project collection which including
the project.
Check whether your solution and files are in the excluded list of
pending changes.
Probably you deleted the files after you did a Get Latest Version operation.
Try to use the Get Specific Version then check the "Overwrite all files even if the local version matches the specified version".
I finally find the problem. It was related to my access level in team project.
I was the 7th member of the team and because in this free version a team can only have 5 basic and advanced members, automatically my access level was changed to stackholder and as you know a stackholder access level has some limitations.
So far I was working my my project myself using Visual Studio Team Services using VS 2012, everything was good. Now I have added another user for my project and things are NOT working as I expected, below are my basic questions.
After my developer is done adding/editing files, does he needs to tell me the ChangeSet # to refer to? so I can get his Check-in's?
How Can I see What files he modified/Added? And is there a way I can get only the changes I want from the user instead of getting his/her entire changeset/files?
"Get Latest Version" does not really gets me the Latest Version of files which my developer modified.
See below answers:
After my developer is done adding/editing files, does he needs to tell me the ChangeSet # to refer to? so I can get his Check-in's?
--> He doesn't need to give you Changeset# to get latest(his check-ins). You can go to Team Explorer --> Source Control Explorer and then right click on your project and select "View History" to look at all the changes done to the project. Do you see his changes in the history? If yes then "Get Latest Version" should work. Sometimes what happens if you try to get latest version in Visual Studio Solution and if the files changed are not part of solution you won't get those files. In those cases you need to get latest from Source Control Explorer.
How Can I see What files he modified/Added? And is there a way I can get only the changes I want from the user instead of getting his/her entire changeset/files?
--> If you double click on the changeset after following the above steps to go to View History you will see all the files changed. If you want to get only few files from a check-in you will have to get the latest at file/folder level instead of getting it at project level. i.e. Find out all the files changed using above method and then go to individual files/folders in the Source Control Explorer to get latest.
I'm using TFS and VS 2012 and my project is in a broken state and I can't figure out why. I'd like to go back to a previous version of my solution when I know it worked and make changes on that working version. However, when I choose to check out a specific changeset, it seems to me like it's only changing the files that were changed in that changeset. When I use git and check out a revision, my code looks exactly like it did at that revision. Files that didn't yet exist at that revision are removed, files that did exist have contents as they were at that revision, etc. But I can't seem to do the same in TFS. I can't figure out how to get all of the files (and only the files) in the state that they existed when a particular changeset was checked in. Am I missing something? Any help REALLY appreciated.
Try using the Advanced option when you right click on a solution or folder in Source Control:
Then when the dialog appears, check both check boxes so the version you have is overwritten with the specific version you want by selecting Changeset from the ddl and entering the changeset you are after...
This should overwrite the existing solution files with the specific version.
If you have trouble doing it over top of existing files, delete the source on your local machine first and get the specific version after that.
A changeset is just the files checked in at one time, not a snapshot of the whole system. You want to use labels for that. A label will mark all the files in their present state, just as you describe Git doing.
Find the changeset you want and "Get This Version" to only get the changed files.
Manually check out each file for edit in Source Control Explorer to match the changeset.
Now the previous changeset's edits can be checked in.
NOTE: This is MUCH quicker than getting the entire repo using "Get Specific Version."
I have several projects in TFS which visually appear in the directory hierarchy as grayed out. When I browse within the projects in Visual Studio 2010/Source Control/TFS 2010, I notice that all of their contents have a Latest value of "Not downloaded". Normally, I have only seen Latest values of "Yes" or "No".
I have tried all of the varieties of "Get latest" that I know, but I am always alerted that "All files are up to date".
If I try to "Check out for edit", I am not allowed.
When I observe the properties of these grayed out files, they always say Workspace Version = "Not applicable".
How do I fix TFS so that I can download and check out the projects again? My suspicion is that my workspace is messed up, but I do not know what to do to restore/reconfigure it.
I was able to remap the directory to fix my issue. To do this, I
selected (right-clicked) the branch that included all of my code, and selected "Remove Mapping..."
renamed the folder I was mapped to within TFS (you can delete it as well, but I renamed just to keep it during this experimental process)
created a new folder with the original name of the branch I was mapped to in the beginning, and
selected (right-clicked) the branch that included all of my code, and selected "Map to Local Folder".
This process forces a complete re-download of the entire branch. Luckily for me, my branch was only 2GB, so I was able to re-download in about 5-10 minutes.
The reason for getting "All files are up to date" - is that the information on the TFS server and the files on your disk is out of sync. If you delete the files on your disk with file explorer - the TFS server still thinks you have the file on disk. To re-sync you have to force an update like this:
Check the two checkbox on this dialog - and click Get:
It happened to me as well when I added and existing project as a reference to another project.
When I added the project reference I had a pop-up message that told me that the current project already exists at the source control but at a different location then the relative path of the current project.
by a mistake I choose the wrong option which lead to the unnecessary mapping.
In order to solve this issue I've removed the mapping from the workspace.
only after removing the mapping i could get the latest project.
I solved it by following this - remove the work space and then tfs prompted me to download everything again.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181386(v=vs.100).aspx
It sounds like the folders / files in TFS are not mapped to a local drive in your workspace.
In Source Control Explorer, select the "Workspace:" dropdown, then select "Workspaces".
Choose your current workspace form the list that appears, then hit "Edit". Check that the TFS folder $/blah is mapped to a local folder c:\tfs\blah
You should now be able to get latest, check out etc.
I had some weirdness with this after :
updating to TFS2017
updating to VS2017
trying to change my TFS URL to https (gave up and reverted back to http)
So somewhere along the line this broke my workspace such that all my projects were showing as unbound. I was able to do a get latest again. This should not overwrite any files you have changed providing they are writable, but if you have any doubt whatsoever then backup your local workspace before doing get latest. It will ask you to resolve conflicts - so make sure to select 'keep local copy'.
In my case, when the branch was deleted: Right click + Check in, helped.
I've a project added to my Team Foundation Server 2010 installation and I've done some code check-ins.
I need to restore the project to the point it was in the last check in, but, when I try to get the lastest version or a specific version, one of the files (File1.cs) I've modified is not checked out.
I realized that File1.cs was not checked-in the last time but I wanna roll back the project to the point it was in the last check-in.
What really does "Get lastest version" and "Get specific version"?
I'm very confused about these two options.
Get specific will get file at the given changeset. But if that file wasn't changed between the changeset you're at and the changeset you're getting, then this is a no-op.
The easiest way to find the version of the file you want to get is through View History. Find the changeset you want to get, and select "Get This Version". This will get only the file in question at that version.