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Evgeny Popov





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Version Control, Folder compare Top

Hi,

Does TFS Source Control support folder compare I was suprized that there is no question about this..

Evgeny



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Ed Hintz





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Version Control, Folder compare Top

Evgeny,

TFS supports folder compare from the command line via tf diff. Folder compare is not available within Visual Studio. This is a frequently requested feature we are considering for our next release.

Ed

http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz



 
 
ciberch





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Version Control, Folder compare Top

It would be really good if you could add folder compare.

Many times I get a chunk of source code in a zip file(from an external party) that I need to merge with what I have and in VSS I could just extract it to my local machine and then do a recursive folder diff and see what files need to be added or checked out and I can no longer do this.

I also tried to use tf diff yesterday and saw this:

C:\0-TFS\ROD\TotalLms\aspen_web\core>"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\tf" diff administration /recursive /format:Visual
There is no pending change for 'administration'.

I was hoping it whould show the changed files from what I had pasted on my local folder

Any ideas


 
 
Richard Berg MSFT





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Version Control, Folder compare Top

Tf Diff with 1 argument diffs items with pending edits against their corresponding server item.

You want the 2-argument version. It's most commonly used to diff 1 filespec on disk against another, but you can also use it to force comparisons on files that aren't checked out. tf diff file file;W /format:Visual

Diff is something we hope to improve in a powertoy release. Stay tuned. You can also use a 3rd-party tool, of course.

 
 
Dave Black





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Version Control, Folder compare Top

A new version of the VSTS Power Toys has been released...

VSTS 1.1 - September 2006:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyId=3F21144A-4E98-4CE0-830F-D1F3E8AC9D67&displaylang=en