While viewing the history of a file in Visual SourceSafe, I see the following columns:
Version
User
Date
Action
I'm more interested in the comments, I filled in while checking out and in.
I know I can get this information, using the history report preview, but would it be possible adding this as a column in the basic history view?
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Is there a way to view changes that were made after a code review by other developers?
Say, someone suggested a change and commented in GitHub on a specific file.
PR creator made changes to that specific file and checked in. - Is there a way to view that change?
Clicking view changes doesn't take me directly to the file that has comments. It takes me to all the files
This feature was very useful in BitBucket, as I could see all the changes of that specific file and comments in one place. Seems it's missing in GitHub.
This did not help:
https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-pull-requests/reviewing-changes-in-pull-requests/reviewing-proposed-changes-in-a-pull-request
The "Reviewing proposed changes in a pull request" you mention (as not helping) should still include a Jump to link:
That should allow you to narrow the list of files, and select the one you want to go to immediately.
We're moving our wikis over to Azure DevOps and want to replicate the 'overview' pages we have for each section of the wiki. This is comprised of a table with links to various files (which was easy enough to create in markdown), followed by a list of recent updates to pages within that section (showing which team member made the update, which page was updated, and the date).
Azure DevOps doesn't appear to let you run queries on wiki pages within a project, which was my initial approach. I therefore need some markdown that will return a list of the above information (say, the last ten updates made to a specified page of the wiki and any of its sub-pages). Is this possible? Or is there a better way to get the result I'm after?
Display recent activity to a section of the wiki in an Azure DevOps project
I am afraid this is impossible at this moment.
If you want to return a list of the last ten updates made to a specified page of the wiki and any of its sub-pages, there is a option View Revisions, which you could get wiki page history:
Revision pages show who made the change along with the revision
message, date, and version or commit ID. To view details of a
revision, select the message or version link.
Check the document View wiki page history and revert changes for some more details.
But we could not get the update list for all wiki pages, just for one specify.
Besides, the functions supported by markdown are limited currently, AFAIK, we could not dynamic Wiki Content, if we need to list the update list for all wiki pages, it should be the dynamic content:
Check the user voice Add dynamic Wiki Content.
The way I can think of is that we could create a scripts to invoke REST API to return the updates made to a specified page of the wiki, then add the result to the markdown in the local, and push the changes to the Azure devops. But this will add a update message in the Wiki.
So, I am afraid this is impossible at this moment.
Hope this helps.
If you want to see recent wiki page changes, look in the DevOps Repos -> Commits page in the GUI.
I am using Star Team plugin in eclipse .
When viewing files in eclipse it appends all the information about the file version,last modified date to the file name but I was not able to append last checked-in author name to file.
Can any one help to identify this in eclipse.
I don't know about this specific plugin, but generally there are three places you check for this:
Preferences -> Team -> Star Team
In the History view, the view menu (upside down triangle on the right)
Also in the History view, check the meaning of all of the buttons on the toolbar there.
If none of those allows additional information, then it is likely that the Star Team provider needs to be extended. File a report with them.
I'm trying to migrate to TFS from VSS and I need to be able to show what files were checked in between two releases. In VSS we would just label the code for a release and view history between labels and generate a report to show the checkins and the comments. Is there a way to get similar results with TFS? Or show the differences between two changesets or labels?
The command line tool tf.exe gives you more options than the GUI (and can either give results in a Dialogue or as standard output --- good for feeding into further processing).
E.g.
tf hist . -r /version:C10~C1000
will list all the changesets affecting this folder and content recursively between changesets 10 and 1000.
See the documentation on MSDN.
If you need maximum flexibility, you can create your own commands using the TFS client assemblies. Unfortunately documentation is somewhat sparse.
Right click on your desired folder on TFS (e.g. the root folder), you'll find following two options:
1, Apply Label - this allows you to apply label to a particular version of that folder.
2, Compare - this allows you to compare that folder between versions, and one of the choices is comparing by label.
Right click on any node in TFS Source Control and choose 'View History'
This will show you all changesets ordered by date descending.
Double click on those and you can see the detail about the change set: the comment, associated work items, and files that were changed.
As Jeff said, right-click on the project, any folder or file, and choose "View History" to see all changes. If you know when your labels were applied, it's easy to scroll down this list until you hit a particular date/time.
For an exact list between two labels or changeses, use "tf.exe history" (as Richard says) from a Visual Studio command prompt (in your start menu in the Visual Studio 2005 folder). For more info on this just execute "tf.exe help history".
For day to day changes, if you use TFS build you can see the changes since the last build at the bottom of the build information page (Double click the build name in Team Explorer, then double click the specific build. Scroll to the bottom of this page and open "associated changesets". I've set out CI build to not associate changesets, which means that our daily test build lists all changesets since the previous daily build - a great summary of the changes for our testers to get their teeth into.
I was using the command line tf hist and getting the changesets to compare by finding the highest changeset in a label or branch changeset, but having a manual process and using the command line didn't go over too well here. I used Carl Daniel's code to write a little web application that will bind the changes to a datagrid.
If you're looking for something special the standard interface doesn't give you it's fairly simple to write your own application that links into TFS. I'd definitely suggest it.
How can I to generate an RSS feed of Team Foundation Server commit messages?
In Visual Studio's Source Control Explorer, the "View History" option produces a nice GUI view. Likewise, the command line
tf history /recursive /stopafter:40 .
produces a nice GUI view. I'd like an RSS feed that would supply the same, or similar, information -- or even a way to wring some text out of TFS that I can reconstitute into RSS.
This is similar to the question, Sending SVN commits to an RSS feed, but I do have control over the private TFS repository.
One of the links from Grant's answer seems even better than the original page. It contains source code for ASPX file that generates an RSS feed of TFS checkins which returns information about the most recent N checkins:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jefflu/archive/2005/07/27/443900.aspx
I haven't tried it out yet, and it doesn't appear to include the checkin comment, which is the most important part from my perspective.
http://blogs.msdn.com/abhinaba/archive/2005/12/21/506277.aspx