{"id":1154,"date":"2012-01-31T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eweibel.net\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2012-01-31T23:51:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T22:51:17","slug":"tf-exe-or-maybe-the-most-useful-tool-for-tfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eweibel.net\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"TF.exe or maybe the most useful tool for TFS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"visualstudio\"<\/a>When you’ve to use TFS<\/a>, then there are moments when you’re missing some features in the UI tools in Visual Studio. In those situations the console tool tf.exe<\/a> is very useful. In this short blog post I summarized the commands I used the most.<\/p>\n

Update an old version of a branch<\/strong><\/p>\n

It could happen, that the production branch or an older feature branch isn’t up-to-date, because somebody forgot one or several merges from the main branch. To fix that, there could be used the following statement:<\/p>\n

tf.exe merge \/recursive \/force \/version:T $\/Project\/Main\/Source $\/Project\/Production\/Source<\/p>\n

Delete a branch permanently<\/strong><\/p>\n

After a while the number of merged feature branches increase. Normally, you would delete the merged feature branches, so they aren’t any longer visible in Visual Studio. But in my case, I display also the deleted items and this means, that I see all the deleted feature branches. To remove the old merged feature branches, there could be used the following statement:<\/p>\n

tf.exe destroy $\/Project\/Development\/FeatureX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you’ve to use TFS, then there are moments when you’re missing some features in the UI tools in Visual Studio. In those situations the console tool tf.exe is very useful. In this short blog post I summarized the commands I used the most. Update an old version of a branch It could happen, that the production branch or an older feature branch isn’t up-to-date, because somebody forgot one or several merges from the main branch. To fix that, there…<\/p>\n

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