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Diemauerdk
Diemauerdk

Reputation: 5928

TFS ignores folders starting with $

I have an application that depends on a third party library where a file starts with sign '$'.

I have read about this issue, which is discussed in this thread Visual Studio Online TFS refuses to "source control" filenames starting with $

Apparently there is no solution - but i really need a solution.

Does someone have a workarround to this or any ideas on how to solve it?

The thread is more than 2 years old so maybe something has changed that i do not know of :)

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 46

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51073

Still not changed. Files and folders you add to Team Foundation version control must conform to the following restrictions:

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Source Link: Version control files

Files stating with $ such as $xxx.dll will auto change to xxx.dll when you checked in TFS source control.

In other words, you could not keep files stated with $ characters in TFS source control system. If you force rename a file already in source control, you will get a pop up error such as below screenshot:

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I'm afraid the only workaround is renaming the third party library file.

Upvotes: 2

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