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TFS Connectivity and Ignore Issues

I am having some trouble with TFS:

  1. I have ignore rules for certain files. For example:

\Build\Scripts*.sum

It does not seem to recognize this. But, if I exclude these files in the Visual Studio UI, it remembers that I excluded them for some time.Then I lose connectivity and I have to re-exclude them. Why doesnt the tfignore file seem to be working. This leads to:

  1. I routinely lose the ability to connect to TFS. Ill be moving along happily working. then Ill go and check in some code and I will get the error that I do not have access to TFS. If I restart Visual Studio, I can then successfully connect and check in code. Things will be fine for a few hours, and then it will happen again. Why do I lose the ability to connect? And why does restarting fix it?
Solution

  • The issue was that TFS thought these items had been "added" although that was not entirely clear from Visual Studio UI. I had to go to the Source Control Explorer and look at the folder where these files were. They were listed as 'add' which is how I figured this out. I never explicitly added these files. I had to right click on these items and remove them.