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VictorySaber
VictorySaber

Reputation: 3164

Prevent check-in of generated CSS from LESS file in TFS

We use Web Essentials in our Visual Studio project, and we use a main Site.Less file that compiles into Site.css, and Site.css.map & Site.min.css.

Because Less is a new technology to some team members we sometimes get people writing code into the Site.css file and checking that in. Recently we had a week's worth of changes that got overwritten because somebody else changed the Less file, compiled and checked in. Thankfully the history kept the .css changes.

Is there a way to prevent the Site.css file, which is underneath Site.less, from being checked in? This would serve as a reminder that people need to edit the Less file and not the CSS file.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1019

Answers (2)

Luca Detomi
Luca Detomi

Reputation: 5716

Git has .gitignore to prevent watching for edits in Site.css.

If you're using Team Foundation Server, please, see this old similar question. Accepted answer is another one, but in my opinion this is answer you're looking for.

In short:

  1. File -> Source Control -> Advanced
  2. Select "Exclude < filename > from Source Control"

Look at the link to further details.

Upvotes: 1

Daniel Mann
Daniel Mann

Reputation: 58990

Team Foundation Server version control (TFVC) supports a .tfignore file if you're using local workspaces. See MSDN for more information on the format of .tfignore

Upvotes: 1

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