Is there a 'Get Latest Version' preview in TFS? (Like VSS 'Get' command)

Question

My question relates to Team Foundation Server (TFS) and specifically, is there any way to know which files have changed on the server before doing a 'Get Latest Version (Recursive)?

In Visual Source Safe (VSS), you could do a 'Get' (I think) which showed you all the files which were being considered for the update and which files we're changed on the server (an consequently would be updated during the get). This functionality seems to be completely missing!

Also, when I do a 'Get Latest Version' in TFS, there doesn't seem to be any notification that any things occurred, other than the blur of a progress bar momentarily. I would have expected a notification at the end that there were no updates to be made, or n files were updated. Instead I have to hunt in the TFS output in Visual Studio to see what happened. Is this right?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Andy.

Answer 1

Thanks to this question/answer, I have happily been using tf get /recursive /preview for about a year now.

But it turns out that there is something like this integrated into Visual Studio, at least 2010 and later.

Go to:

• View menu, Other Windows, Source Control Explorer
• navigate to the path you're interested in, right-click, and pick "Compare"
• set "Target Path" to the equivalent local path
• you might want to un-check "Show items that exist only in target path"
• OK

You get a nice view of the potential changes previewed, and you right-click on individual files and do a Compare to see exactly what you're going to get.

I'm so glad a colleague showed me this today!