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Ilya Gurenko
Ilya Gurenko

Reputation: 565

TFS2013, Copy project from an old attached collection to a new one

We have recently installed TFS2013_Update3. We had TFS2010 prior to that with its own Collection.

that collection is now controlled by the TFS2013 machine.

My question/s as follows:

  1. How can i copy a specific Project from the old collection to the new one?

  2. Should i ask the whole team to check in before that ? and what is the most efficient way of doing that?

Many thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 126

Answers (1)

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 115007

If I understand correctly you have:

NewProject Collection (2013)
+ Some Project
+ Some Other project

OldProject Collection (migrated from 2010)
+ Old Project

And what you want to end up with is:

NewProject Collection (2013)
+ Some Project
+ Some Other project
+ Old Project

If that's the case, then that's not a supported scenario in the product. There are migration tools that can help you do the migration though, but that's not the same thing as an actual merge. You'll lose some data (timestamps of checkins, users that no longer exist in Active Directory).

The tools that can help you are:

Many teams I work with decide that it's far too much work to do a migration including history and simply make the old project read-only, check in the latest version of the code into a new Team Project created in the target collection and continue to build on top of that.

Upvotes: 2

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