Ignore Unchanged Files on Check-in

By Michael Flanakin @ 6:07 PM :: 250 Views :: 0 Comments :: Visual Studio, (Open), Team Foundation Server, (Reported) :: Digg it!

One thing I find fairly aggravating is when I want to see files that have changed locally when I'm working with a TFS repository. Sure, I can see what's been checked out, but that doesn't mean those files have all been changed. Currently, all you can do is compare them one-by-one, which is a ridiculous process. Admittedly, my main reason for doing this is because I'm anal. I don't want files to be marked for check-in if they don't have any changes; specifically, I don't want them included in the check-in changeset. Based on this, I'd like to see TFS check-ins to ignore files that haven't changed or at least provide an option to do so.

Reported @ https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=260449

Edit: Some brilliant, small-minded person closed the suggestion and said we should simply not check-in files that haven't changed. The problem with this is that means we have to manually go thru every file that's been marked as changed. Consider a large check-in that includes hundreds of files. Checking all those files would take way too long and nobody would do it. I'm somewhat aggravated about this. I'll probably end up reporting it again.

Edit: Looks like this might be in the Team Foundation Power Tool v1.2. The tfpt uu command says it is supposed to "undo unchanged files." The question is, what does this really mean? You can specify a changeset, which tells me it allows you to remove unchanged files from a previously checked-in changeset. If that's the case, I'm very excited about it. I just hope it undoes currently checked out files when a changeset is not specified. Once I play with it, I'll report back, but this really needs to get included into the product instead of being a command-line action that must be performed.

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