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Jason Irwin
Jason Irwin

Reputation: 2045

TFS - Refresh Team Project

My team is moving to TFS and we are currently testing migration from VSS. The VSS Converter requires all TFS projects to be created prior to conversion. We have upwards of 30 projects and it is time consuming to create these.

Is there any way to refresh the source control portion of our projects between tests (returning them to their original blank state) while leaving the projects intact, thereby allowing us to run multiple conversion tests without having to recreate our project collection and projects every time?

[Edit]

To answer John's question below: When creating a Team Project TFS, by default, creates an empty source control folder by the same name and associates it with that Team Project. The conversion file requires that source control folder to be available.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 415

Answers (2)

Jason Irwin
Jason Irwin

Reputation: 2045

As a follow-up, I finally found a way to automatically create the requisite projects. Essentially the process is to drop and recreate the collection, then generate the projects from your xml mapping file. If anyone is interested I blogged it here

http://irwinj.blogspot.com/2011/05/tfsautomated-project-creation.html

Upvotes: 0

James Reed
James Reed

Reputation: 14052

I'm going to make some assumptions.

  1. you're using TFS 2008 or 2010
  2. you're not afraid of the command line :-)

I think in this scenario the "tf destroy" command is going to be your friend.

e.g. "tf destroy $/TeamProject1/FolderToBeWiped"

You could easily write a script that wipes all of your existing folders in source control. As a word of caution, DO NOT do "tf destroy $/" as this will take out the Source Control part of the team project(s) and you'll need to create it (them) again.

Upvotes: 1

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