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John N
John N

Reputation: 51

How can I give access to source code in TFS to for the purpose of a code review, without giving access to download the code?

I am new to Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and I've had a request to give a 3rd party access to a project's source code for short amount of time for review. The idea is to enable access for only a couple of days.

Is there a way to do this easily in TFS like what Fisheye provides?

To clarify, i realize that that by viewing code in a browser they are downloading code. That is ok, I just want reduce their ability to download the whole project... Does this make a difference?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1070

Answers (2)

Jason Kleban
Jason Kleban

Reputation: 20788

You could provide them a locked-down and/or supervised physical workstation for the review.

Upvotes: 1

John Saunders
John Saunders

Reputation: 161773

No, there's fundamentally no way to do this. Viewing the code is exactly the same as downloading the code.

I suppose TFS could create an image (.bmp, .jpg or .png) from the code and then display that to the reviewer, but that's a fairly rare request.

You could provide read access to the code but no access to the project and solution files, or other components necessary to successfully produce a product from the code.

Upvotes: 0

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