IT:AD:TF:HowTo:Common Operations

• Get into the target directory.
  • As the directory is known by TFS to be mapped to a workspace, it can deduct what Workspace we're talking about.
• Recursively get code from the Main branch:

REM On Windows x64
cd C:\TFS\WS1\WA
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" get $/NSI/Main /recursive

REM If you need to, use the force switch
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" get $/NSI/Main /recursive /force

I don't recommend doing a checkout (let Visual Studio decide which files are checked out), but the code is similar, bar the command.

• Get into the target directory.
  • As the directory is known by TFS to be mapped to a workspace, it can deduct what Workspace we're talking about.
• Recursively checkout code from the Main branch:

REM On Windows x64
cd C:\TFS\WS1\WA
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" checkout $/NSI/Main /recursive

REM If you need to, use the force switch
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" checkout $/NSI/Main /recursive /force

After you've made your changes, check in (same as get, just changed to checkin):

REM On Windows x64
cd C:\TFS\WS1\WA
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" checkin $/NSI/Main /recursive

REM with a comment (notice colon)
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" checkin $/NSI/Main /recursive /comment:"Foo bar"

REM with a comment, overridding checkin policies:
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" checkin $/NSI/Main /recursive /noprompt /override:"Policy override reason" /comment:"Foo bar"

REM Hugely contraversial, bypass gated checkin:
"%VS110COMNTOOLS%\TF.exe" checkin $/NSI/Main /recursive /noprompt /bypass /override:"policy overriding reason" /comment:"Foo bar"

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3762812/scripting-tfs-command-line-for-get-latest-version-check-out-and-check-in-progr
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4863865/unable-to-determine-the-workspace-using-tf-exe
• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/z51z7zy0(v=vs.100).aspx ← good