Category Archives: Source Control

You can get a complete list of checked out files by using the tf.exe command line tool found in: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE All checked out files in $/MyProject: tf.exe status $/MyProject /user:* /s:http://MyTfsServer:8080 /recursive All files checked out … Continue reading →

There are many reasons to create branches in the Update/Commit model and Distributed Version Control really excels in an environment with many branches. Take the examples in the previous post: In Distributed Version Control, each of these would be “repository/working … Continue reading →

Branch and Merge Many people who implement Update/Commit typically organize the server into the Trunk and Branches folders: This allows you work on long term, scheduled features in Trunk, while making unexpected bug fixes in the latest branch: v2.0. The … Continue reading →

The problem with Checkin/Checkout Generally speaking, Checkin/Checkout interrupts developers. You want to finish your task, but you can’t continue on a portion of it, which then interrupts your thought process. The more developers you have with the Checkin/Checkout model, the … Continue reading →

Linus Torvalds is big on distributed version control (http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/), and I’m starting to see the light. Distributed version control is something any organization should seriously consider, not just open source projects. This is a start of a series of blog … Continue reading →