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marto
marto

Reputation: 460

How to group excluded from source control files (TFS, Visual Studio)

Is it possible to group them to a folder (or workitem) or something similar, and how?

edit: I am asking because sometimes when working on a task I need to jump to another and check in only the other task changes and exclude all others. Later when I get back to the first one I want to be able to resume the work in progress. It is OK if I only jump between two tasks, but if there are 3 and more changes (on a particular task) cannot be tracked fast. I searched SO but did not find answer, also vs ui does not seem to provide the option. Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Version 15.117.26714.0

Upvotes: 0

Views: 45

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51073

What you are doing is not a recommend way in TFS. It's not the really usage of excluded list.You should use Shelveset instead.

Sometimes you need to set aside some or all of your work in progress. Shelvesets are useful when you want to stop work for:

  • Interruption: You have pending changes that are not ready for check in, but you need to work on a different task.
  • Collaboration: You have pending changes that are not ready for check in but you need to share them with another team member.
  • ..

You could simply suspend and resume your work from the My Work page, more details please refer this tutorial--Suspend your work and manage your shelvesets

Upvotes: 1

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