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TFS 2008: Editing Comments and Check-in Notes

October 16th, 2009
by Olga Belokurskaya

Hi!

Have just found an interesting fact at Martin Woodward’s. It’s about managing changeset metadata in Team Foundation Server 2008. The thing is that many are not aware about the possibility to edit the comment and check-in notes. Corresponding fields are provided with “Save” button which has been there for a long time, however according to Martin, there are people surprised by the fact.

What’s the use of this possibility?

Well, “removing the odd bit of unsavoury language from a frustrated late night check-in,” is obvious reason:)

But there is better use of it.

As you may know, a new feature allowing creating and committing branches in a single operation has been added to TFS 2008 SP1. One of the ways to do this is by the undocumented VersionControlServer.CreateBranch method through the API. It’s fast and needs less server resources which is an advantage.

The only trouble is, that it’s impossible add comments to changesets during operation. However, now we know how to add comments after the operation.

Hope someone will find usefull this TFS management detail.

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