I have stared using TFVC for my MSVS 2015 C++ project. I am used to command line repos like git/svn, where I can simply do a checkout/clone, etc... and copy the files to any folder I like.
So, I have checked out my workspace to a mapped location (c:\myworkspace) via the MSVS2015 GUI. But now I want to to run my auto test script, which will copy the latest files from the repo to the current directory (e.g. c:\autorun). The auto test script builds and tests and generates results etc... But I don't want it to just over-write what I have in my workspace in case someone else has added a change.
I want it to go to a different folder of my choice.
In Git I would just navigate to the folder (cd c:\autorun) and then do git clone <repo-path>. But I can't see how this is possible with TFVC's workspaces.
So far I have started to modify my script that worked with git to get this:
' Clean any existing files:
rmdir /S /Q <projname>
' Checkout project
tf checkout <projname> /recursive
' Do other stuff (build test etc...)
But this only works in my c:\workspace - and I don't want to delete/overwrite my local changes.
You can create a new (temporary) workspace using
cd temp
md newfolder
tf vc workspace /new ...
tf vc workfold /map $/Project/Folder c:\temp\newfolder
cd newfolder
tf vc get . /recursive
tf workspace /delete
Or you can use the little utility written by Neno Loje, TfsExport.
Update From OP
Assuming that I start in the folder that I want to extract my projects into. I used the following:
tf dir shows the repos I have:
D:\sandbox\tfs-test > tf dir
$/:
$tfsRepo1
$tfsRepo2
$tfsRepo3
I just want the first two repos:
tf vc workspace /new /noprompt cit
tf vc get tfsRepo1 /recursive
tf vc get tfsRepo2 /recursive
Then to tidy up:
tf workspace /delete cit /noprompt
rmdir /S /Q tfsRepo1
rmdir /S /Q tfsRepo2
Note the use of /noprompt in various places so that there is no user interaction required.