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BVernon
BVernon

Reputation: 3787

Is it possible to erase source history in TFS?

I create a branch and give some contractors access to it. Then I realize there are hard coded credentials I would rather them not see so I take them out and check in the changes. Of course, they could potentially look at the history and see it anyway.

What do I do? Is it necessary to create the branch from scratch again or is there a better alternative?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 746

Answers (2)

Bafro
Bafro

Reputation: 87

Destroy command is the way but I can find very easy and useful to add the "TFS Source control Explorer extension" (here version from previous VS version) to Visual Studio.

It has a lot of feature easy to use from VS source control GUI and also Destroy Work Item function from right click menu: advanced->Destroy.Then in confirmation dialog you can choose if or not keep related history information.

Enjoy!

Upvotes: 3

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 115037

You can't remove the history without destroying the files. What you could do is to destroy the file from the commandline tf vc destroy $/Path/to/file then check in a fresh copy of the file at the end of the history. Or destroy the whole branch and create a new one that doesn't contain the file with the credentials.

Upvotes: 2

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