I created the project and uploaded it to codeplex from my home computer. Everything works fine. Now I'm on the road on my laptop and I want to checkout my project.
Do I create a blank solution and then do the checkout? Do I have to checkout without creating any new projects (if so how?)?
Thanks for the help.
It depends on what source control system your project is using. It looks like CodePlex supports Mercurial, TFS, and SubVersion. Instructions on how to connect are here:
http://codeplex.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Source%20control&referringTitle=CodePlex%20FAQ&ANCHOR#clients
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I have a Ruby on Rails project in my local machine and I use the RubyMine IDE to change the related source code.
Recently, I found a (remote) collaborator for my project, and I would like to share my code with him so that we can work on it. However, I am not sure on how to proceed to make it possible, and also have some troubles e.g. on how to properly manage Git version control with my collaborator.
Since we want our project to be private and cannot use paid services (e.g. GitHub), I thought about using Dropbox as a repository so that both me and my collaborator can change the source code but keeping advantage of using git version control features.
Have you some advice about? Is Dropbox is the right choice? Can you point me out to good resources?
Assuming you are saying GitHub is paid because you need it to be private, you can use bitbucket
You can use Bitbucket instead of Git. On Bitbucket there are 5 private repository are free...
I want to upload android source code on TFS using visual studio and my server side is written using C#
how to create repository for android on TFS
UPDATE1:
Please read Get Started documents first:
Get Started with Git and Team Services
Get Started with TFVC
UPDATE2:
If you just want to isolate the documents from the source code, you can create a new folder under the project, or create a new branch to store the documents, of cause you can create another repository, it's based on your requirements. Please see this article for details.
Do you have any special requirements? If not, nothing different with other projects. Assuming you are using TFVC, just try following below steps:
Connect from Visual Studio or Team Explorer
Create a team project
Add repositories
Configure your workspace and check in the source files/changes.
You can create the repository individually for client and server projects as needed.
If you just want to upload the existing source code to TFS, you just need to Put an existing solution under version control
Please see the overview documents for more information.
If you are using Android Studio, you can install the Team Services Plugin for Android Studio with Git repositories used. See here fro more info.
Using facility of git which is provided in the xcode I have setup one project. I got the understanding about the branch, commit etc from This link
Now I want to share this project with the other developer who can make change in this project from his own mac. Both the mac is in the same network. So can anyone please let me know how can I achieve it. If any link from where I can refer would be great help.
What Xcode sets up is a local repository that is specific to you, and your Mac.
What you want is a central repository that developers can clone, so they can work in their own local copy of that repository. Each developer can push their committed changes to the central (origin) repository. Others on the team can pull those changes to their local copy.
You can host this central repository in-house, by using OS X Server and Xcode Server. Alternately, you can use a remote repository, as offered by sites such as GitHub and Bitbucket.
This is a much cleaner solution, and offers far more flexibility and functionality than the problems that will arise trying to work from a single local repository on a shared drive.
Been using TFS2010 for just a few months now so relative newbie, and now possibly need to create my first branch, unfortunately I need to create it from an older changeset, is this possible?
Basic scenario is I converted a project from VSS 6.0, with history, and it all came over fine. Project has approx 500 source files.
Before the conversion from VSS we started working on version 4.0 of our project, with no plans to release any more bug fixes to 3.1 so we didn't establish any branches at that time.
So we have made significant changes to about 20 files (which I can identify), but now the client wants to release a 3.11, 3.2, 3.3 etc because not everyone will be ready to go to 4.0 product anytime soon.
I think we want to create a branch, and then use TFS to rollback about 20 files in that branch to an older version, is this possible to do? Create a branch from where we are now, and then rollback some of the files? or does creating a branch cause you to lose history for that branch?
Slightly complicating things is that after we started working on 4.0, besides making the 4.0 specific changes we also have several changes that we made that would need to go into both he 3.1 branch AND stay in the 4.0 branch we are working on now, and furthermore, and more bug fixes we need to put in over the next several months would need to apply to both branches.
Perhaps this is a pretty straight-forward use case for TFS, but just wanted to make sure I don't mess up what is already working perfectly fine.
Suggestions?
You can create a branch from any changeset, and it's very easy from within the Source Control Explorer UI. Just navigate with Source Control Explorer to the server path you want to branch, select branch, and then you'll be given the option to "Branch From Version". Just select whatever changeset you want to branch from and your new branch will be created from that instead of the default of the latest version.
Why don't you choose to get the appropriate base version with "Get Specific Version" which will summon the sources in the state you need - of your version 3.1.
Then construct a branch to continue work towards 3.1x
Executing 'Get Latest' on your base branch should result with your sources in version 4.0
I have just done this.
I started my solution with a single branch team project in codeplex :
-MyPrettyCMS/Database
-MyPrettyCMS/Framework
-MyPrettyCMS/Layers
-MyPrettyCMS/Portals
-MyPrettyCMS/Solution
It's not possible to create a branch of the team project
WARNING ! I tryed to convert Team Project folder to a Branch, it worked but after that, I can't create any branch and I had not enough rights to undo that (I had to ask the Code Plex TFS Administrator to undo for me).
All of this must be done with team explorer and not with solution explorer.
So I created a Team project folder subfolder CurrentRelease like this
-MyPrettyCMS/Database
-MyPrettyCMS/Framework
-MyPrettyCMS/Layers
-MyPrettyCMS/Portals
-MyPrettyCMS/Solution
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease
Then, for each folder I used the team explorer move command (DON'T MOVE FOLDERS with the Windows explorer even if you have the plug in, because sometimes it fails).
The result is
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Database
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Framework
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Layers
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Portals
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Solution
At this point you must archive each CurrentRelease subfolder
Now you open windows explorer and you verify each folder and its descendent to see if you forgot some files. If you did, copy it to the new folder, add it to archive with the Add files of Team Explorer. You must archive again.
Right click on MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease ans select command create a branch
I used CurrentRelease-To-2-50-001 as Branch name
Then I have
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Database
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Framework
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Layers
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Portals
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease/Solution
and
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease-To-2-50-001/Database
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease-To-2-50-001/Framework
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease-To-2-50-001/Layers
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease-To-2-50-001/Portals
-MyPrettyCMS/CurrentRelease-To-2-50-001/Solution
I archived the Initial version of the branch.
Now I can work on my next release and make some minor corrections to the current release.
I'm building a tool to integrate with TFS and it needs to properly parse TFS logs (from the tf.exe history command) and checkout different revisions (again using tf.exe). It works great on the test TFS server I have, but I want to test it on a broad range of large repositories to make sure my parsing works properly.
I'd hoped to use Codeplex to get access to TFS repositories, but it seems you only get TFS access to Codeplex projects if you're a project member.
Are there any collections of open source code hosted on public TFS servers? Are there any other publicly available servers I could use for testing?
I would suggest using svn2tfs and choose any relatively active project on SourceForge. There are plenty of projects on SF to choose from that use SVN and not CVS. You might even get a bonus out of it and help the svn2tfs project work out any kinks.
Since you mention tf history command, I assume you want to collect/parse logs on the project's (and its files) history of checkins.
So in addition to large repository, you also need a good amount of history, am I right? If yes, then here's your set of problems:
Most projects on codeplex use Mercurial, not TFS. So even if you get access, you cannot use TFS with them.
As you mentioned, they require you to a be a member for you to access the source.
Even if you get access or find a public server (unlikely), you still would need good amount of history.
If I'm correct in my assumptions so far, here's the easiest (bit tedious though) way out:
Go to any large projects's such as Nuget or Wix
revisions
Download any old revision (go back as far as you want the history for). You can download zipped src files without being a member.
In your test server, checkin the code (src) to create the baseline.
Download the next revision.
Checkout files in your server and overwrite them with the newer revision's files.
While checkin, use the history.txt (sample) to create checkin comments
Repeat this process few times.
Voila!! You now have a large repository with lot of history!
Hope this helps.
Have you tried some of the larger projects on Codeplex?
http://www.codeplex.com
If you only need read access you should be able to play around with the various repositories.
I don't have a huge amount of tfs experience, but I would assume there are migration tools that let you ingest code repositories from other products (e.g svn or hit).
If so, you might want to find a svn/git repo for a sizable foss project, and try importing that.
"I'd hoped to use Codeplex to get access to TFS repositories, but it seems you only get TFS access to Codeplex projects if you're a project member."
This solution appears to be the general consensus amoung SO'rs. I've read some of the Codeplex TFS connection problem threads (you linked to below) and I hope the comments in this thread resolves the issue:
Connecting to Codeplex TFS as a Coordinator or Developer.
I'm wondering if you can use git-tfs project to import an existing Git project into TFS.
Download and install git-tfs
Create a new TFS project
Clone the TFS project to a Git project using git-tfs ("git tfs clone http://tfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection $/some_project")
Import a existing Git project of your choice into your fresh new Git project (I don't know the command but I think it's possible).
Use git-tfs to checkin to TFS Server ("git tfs checkintool")
=> Do it makes sense ? And works ?
For more information:
http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2011/09/20/git-workflows-with-git-tfs/