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ShieldOfSalvation
ShieldOfSalvation

Reputation: 1351

Visual Studio 2013 and TFS - All excluded changes being included back automatically

I was using TFS fine with Visual Studio 2013. However, recently I have had an annoying issue (bug?).

I have a bunch of excluded pending changes that I do not want to commit but that I want to keep locally (bad DEV environment; don't ask). My issue is that every time I re-open VS 2013, all excluded changes are back into the included changes and I have to manually re-exclude all the stuff I do not want to be committed.

Does anyone know what is causing VS 2013 to be such a mess?

[This question is an adaptation of a similar StackOverflow question for VS2015 (Visual Studio 2015 and TFS - All excluded changes being included back automatically), but being specific to VS2013 it can potentially be solved differently.]

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2750

Answers (1)

ShieldOfSalvation
ShieldOfSalvation

Reputation: 1351

I fixed it. All I did was:

  1. Make sure all my intended changes were shelved
  2. Undo all pending changes
  3. Close Visual Studio
  4. Wipe out the TFS cache* at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\5.0\Cache (where Username is your Windows login username). The cache includes all the files stored inside said folder; just delete them!
  5. Reopen Visual Studio
  6. Unshelve my previous changes back to my workspace

Voila! No more extraneous files showing up in my Excluded Changes list!

Upvotes: 3

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