tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393051114813114443.post9054867879400973156..comments2024-01-24T15:38:09.758-05:00Comments on Lee's Blog: Eight Miserable TFS FeaturesLee Richardsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01314803491511307042noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393051114813114443.post-38572417361749036902008-11-07T14:24:00.000-05:002008-11-07T14:24:00.000-05:00You don't need to do exclusive check out with VSS....You don't need to do exclusive check out with VSS. It supports merging automatically and will give you the same dialog to merge files if it can't figure out how to itself.<BR/><BR/>I agree exclusive check out is a terrible solution to have unless your team is so small you never have file collisions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393051114813114443.post-25483136487586744262008-11-06T11:27:00.000-05:002008-11-06T11:27:00.000-05:00Anonymous,TortoiseSVN has improved A LOT just in t...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>TortoiseSVN has improved A LOT just in the last year. You might want to take a second look. Exclusive checkout in VSS is a deal breaker for me.Lee Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01314803491511307042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393051114813114443.post-87178741410158111822008-11-06T11:23:00.000-05:002008-11-06T11:23:00.000-05:00I have not used TFS myself yet, but I hate Tortois...I have not used TFS myself yet, but I hate TortoiseSVN.<BR/><BR/>I had too many case where I could not check-in, clean-up would not work, I would need to edit the SVN files to fix it, or pull everything from scratch. Moving folders was a pain. Did not integrate with VS so adding new files or renaming them was a pain.<BR/><BR/>Working on various types of projects in VS caused issues also, seems every month we found a file type which needed to be excluded.<BR/><BR/>I also tried the various addins and they helped but I still rather use VSS.<BR/><BR/>At least VSS always worked for me, but agreed VSS is dated and lacks features.<BR/><BR/>EricAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393051114813114443.post-23183245054658528642008-11-06T10:55:00.000-05:002008-11-06T10:55:00.000-05:00Matt,Thank you for the info. I took a look and th...Matt,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the info. I took a look and the <A HREF="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx#tfpt" REL="nofollow">TFS Power Tools</A> soften some of my criticism. It's certainly no TortoiseSVN, but I guess it makes TFS usable for a project with non-Microsoft files in it.Lee Richardsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01314803491511307042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393051114813114443.post-61634448893589349122008-11-06T10:43:00.000-05:002008-11-06T10:43:00.000-05:00The TFS command line interface, along with the TF ...The TFS command line interface, along with the TF Power Tools (TFPT) command line addons have been helpful in keeping my sanity with TFS (for a TortoiseSVN user).<BR/><BR/>Many of the operations still require that a GUI dialog presents (tf checkin) , but a simple get-checkout-edit-checkin cycle does not require a Visual Studio instance, and can be called from most editors that can shell out commands.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately the above requires VS be installed, which is an unfortunate waste of time and resources for someone who uses VS solely as a TFS interface.MattKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03232119738920744507noreply@blogger.com