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Mārtiņš Radiņš
Mārtiņš Radiņš

Reputation: 375

TFS History of a deleted file

I have ran into a problem with history of a certain file on TFS. I need to find a file history in TFS so I could investigate why was it deleted, but we have hundreds of changesets so manual finding is out of question. Is there a way to find a certain file history in a specific TFS directory? I know almost nothing about it - I don't know when it was created, changed and deleted, but I know its directory and full filename. Is this possible at all?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 3344

Answers (1)

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 114651

From a Visual Studio commandline:

tf history $/Project/Path/To/File.Extension /collection:https://yourserver:port/tfs/collection

should give you the information you're after.

Alternatively, turn on displaying of hidden files in the Source Control Explorer settings:

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And then use the View History context menu item directly from the source control explorer.

Upvotes: 19

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