I am using Eclipse Version: Neon.3 Release (4.6.3), and have installed TFS plugin in it.
When I am making any changes to the code, the changed files not show up in Included Changes in TFVC Pending Changes Tab, all the changed files show up there only after restart of the eclipse or manually clicking on Action -> Detect Local Changes.
Anybody have solution to this problem, so that I dont have to restart eclipse or or manually clicking on Action -> Detect Local Changes and it detects it automatically.
First, please double check whether you are using server workspaces or local workspaces.
In a server workspace, TFS requires that you inform the server for every change - to check out a file, rename, delete, etc. This
allows TFS to avoid scanning your disk for changes, which is
beneficial for large repositories. If you want to force a disk
scan with Team Explorer Everywhere, because you may have made some
changes outside of Eclipse, you can go to the Actions menu and
select Detect Local Changes.
In a local workspace, TFS will examine your disk for changes every time you look at the pending change status. So all you have
to do is run tf status or click refresh in the Pending Changes
View to see changes made to files outside of Eclipse.
According to your description, seems you are using serverworkspaces. If so suggest you switch to a Local workspace, in which case TFS will store a copy of your file in a hidden folder, so that it always knows what your workspace version looked like when TFS served it to you.
As how to judge you are working on server workspace or local workspace and edit workspaces, follow below steps:
In Project Explorer or Package Explorer, right-click an
Eclipse project that is under version control, point to Team,
and click Manage Workspaces.
The Workspaces dialog box appears. It shows you the list of your Team Foundation Server workspaces.
Then select the one you want to convert, click Edit; the Edit Workspace dialog box appears just as
below screenshot:
Note: Local workspaces are only supported for Team Foundation Server 2012 and above.
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As a new Egit user, aiming to set up version control to update the way a team manages source code without changing locations of our build and dev servers and to identify correct Egit commands to use for check in and check out code from both servers.
In a single Eclipse workspace, initially had one project without use of Egit just a basic automatic and adhoc file copy back up of changed development directory into folders with dates of backup. Promotion to the build server was done by manually copying source files and binaries, doing a diff between source on the MainServer and local server to manage any merges. Now need to implement a proper version control system, using Egit, so as a first time Egit user. I have set up two test Eclipse projects in my workspace: project A shared with MainServerRepository and project B shared with LocalServerRepo. The two git repositories will be in different directories: MainServerRepository on the network and LocalServerRepo on my area on the network where I backup my PC.
What Egit actions do I take to promote latest TESTGIT1.src from MainServerRepository into LocalServerRepo to work on in my local server? (Team > Fetch from upstream is grayed out). Then, once tested, how do I check in src for TESTGIT1 into the main build server project, source and objects are in MainServerRepository?
I've used Team > Commit successfully to check in, but am using cut and paste to move code between two projects (prior to commit) and feel there must be a better way to do this or to set up the projects differently within Eclipse.
Or should I be using Team > push or Team > merge?
Do I need local repository or should I just check out into workspace?
Any comments/ question/assistance would be welcome as haven't figured it out from reading the EGit/User_Guide.
Edit TESTGIT1.src in Eclipse project shared with LocalServerRepo(testGitRepo) until work on it is complete on local server. Then, apply same changes to TESTGIT1 in the main build server project, using right click copy +paste from right click, team > check in. Then in Git Staging view, click plus sign to add to index (staging area), then click commit button, merging in with any other changes made to TESTGIT1.src by other developers. Don't use push command to push entire contents of LocalServerRepo. Or is there a better answer?
I have Eclipse Neon.
I want to show differences with my file and same file in another computer/user which I have permission to.
Can I do that? I know it's possible in Intellij.
This depends the user is using a sever workspace or a local workspace. You could use tf status command to display information about pending changes to files and folders in one or more workspaces.
You can also use this command to view pending changes in a remote
server workspace (for example, changes made by another user on another
dev machine) by using the /collection, /user, and /workspace
options. However, you cannot view pending changes in a remote local
workspace.
Then you could just use a diff tool to show the difference.
Right-click on the source tree, and choose "View History." This will list all changesets that have been checked in to source control. You can right-click the changeset, and select "Compare." This will provide a dialog that lets you select the file to compare against.
When I delete a file in the file system, TFS 2013 will correctly show it as still being in version control, but the file will not show as pending delete, and committing changes does not remove the file from the server. If I go to Source Code Explorer, the deleted file shows up as being on the server, but if I try to delete it, I get an error saying The item could not be found in your workspace, which is also correct, but I need to delete the file and I can't find any way to do it. I really do NOT want to have to download each file and manually delete it.
So, how can I get TFS to detect files that are no longer on the local file system and remove them from the server?
Note, my workspace is local, not server. Many sources say that TFS should detect local deletes in a local workspace, but this does not seem to be true, at least, it's not what I'm seeing.
Update: I know that my workspace is local because here's the TFS Workspaces window:
If the changes are not being detected then your workspace is currently configured as a Server Workspace and not a Local Workspace.
If you edit your workspace, click Advanced, and switch the workspace type to Local.
Note: You can check the configuration by looking for the hidden $tf folder in the root of your workspace...
Use /deletes with the tfs power tool: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2005/11/16/power-toy-tfpt-exe.aspx#Online
Is there a way to tell TFS that one or more files has been moved/renamed by another application (in our case, WebMethods 9) running in Eclipse? We have to move/rename the files using WebMethods and not TFS, because WebMethods does a whole lot of automatic reference updating. However, we haven't found a way to tell TFS "hey, trust me - I moved/renamed/deleted it outside of TFS". Instead, it refuses to commit any changes back to the repository until the old file reappears.
We're working around this at the moment by creating dummy files with the old name and then deleting them again via TFS, but you have to agree that kinda sucks. I'd be happy to treat a move/rename as a deletion of the old filename and creation of the new filename; I just don't want to have to fight TFS over it.
Eclipse: 3.6.1.M20100909-0800
TFS plugin: 11.0.0.201306181529
It depends on whether you use server workspaces or local workspaces.
In a server workspace, TFS requires that you inform the server for every change - to check out a file, rename, delete, etc. This allows TFS to avoid scanning your disk for changes, which is beneficial for large repositories. If you want to force a disk scan with Team Explorer Everywhere, because you may have made some changes outside of Eclipse, you can go to the Actions menu and select Detect Local Changes.
In a local workspace, TFS will examine your disk for changes every time you look at the pending change status. So all you have to do is run tf status or click refresh in the Pending Changes View to see changes made to files outside of Eclipse.
If your workflow involves files changed outside your IDE frequently, I would strongly recommend using local workspaces, however this requires TEE 11.0 and TFS 2012 or better.
No matter what I do, Eclipse (EGit) doesn't display the changes. I've searched a lot for this issue, but cannot solve it. A friend of mine has the same issue. In the past everything worked fine, but from one day to the other the issue occured.
When I hit Team > Synchronize Workspace, only the dialog "Synchronizing Git: No changes found." appears. When I choose Team > Advanced > Synchronize, the same happens.
I also installed a new Eclipse (with a fresh Windows) and issue was still there. With my Ubuntu notebook everything is fine.
Does anybody have the same issue? Is there a solution? I also tried to install the plugins mentioned in this answer, but it didn't work for me.
Update
Eclipse also displays incoming changes (after fetching from upstream) and the changed files (with an arrow), but the synchronize view still doesn't show the changes.
Update 2 I've tested a project from Github and there everything works as apected. What could be the difference between these two projects? I've checked the repository settings and they are equal. Could the authentication cause the issues? Like I've said, the project works fine on my Ubuntu machine.
I've tried the new EGit, re-cloning the project and nothing worked except this:
In the Synchronize view, click on the dropdown arrow next to Synchronize button, then select "Synchronize...".
In the dialog that appears choose Git, press Next.
Then the crucial part - select destination to be HEAD for your repository and check "Include local uncommitted changes in comparison".
Click Finish.
I used to have the same problem but upgrading to EGit 2.2 seems to have taken care of it. Things are now consistent between "git status" at command line and "Team / Synchronize Workspace" in Eclipse.
You can get EGit from here or you can add the update site http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates-2.2 to Eclipse.
Latest Egit Update Site:
http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates
Before you can synchronize your workspace, you need to do a "fetch" from the remote repository (Team -> Fetch from Upstream) to get all the incoming changes into your local repository. Afterwards you can synchronize them.
If you don't want to make two clicks for synchronizing, you can enable "Always launch fetch before synchronisation" in Preferences -> Team -> Git -> Synchronize.
Staged ChangesThis has worked for me :
Whenever you made any changes. Right click on your Project name then Go to Team and click on "Add to Index". Now again Right click on your Project Name then Go to Team and click on "Commit". Now You will see that Git Staging console has been opened and the changes you have made are started displaying in Staged Changes box.
We were strugeling with the same problem. It turned out that we had to remove all options in Git->Synchronize preferences.
We are using Eclipse Juno and Kepler. Removing the options solved the problem for both.
If it helps anyone, I ran into the same problem.
During synchronization, in repository selection, the option Include local uncommitted changes in comparison is not checked and shows No changes found in the Synchronize view. Synchronizing with that option checked, shown the changes.
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