I'm working with TFS on visual studio 2017. I had to reinstall it and now it automatically add all files in folder to source control.
By example, if I compare a file.cs with repository with winmerge, winmerge create a file.cs.bak in my folder. TFS will see the file in folder and add it to source control when I check in.
How can I disable this feature ? Before the reinstall, only files created with visual studio was added to source control.
Yes,as Shayki said in his comment, you should use .tfignore which will help to ignore whatever files you don't want to checkin to the source control.
You can configure which kinds of files are ignored by placing text
file called .tfignore in the folder where you want rules to apply. The
effects of the .tfignore file are recursive. However, you can create
.tfignore files in sub-folders to override the effects of a .tfignore
file in a parent folder.
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# Ignore .cs.bak files
*.cs.bak
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I usually get this problem with my visual studio TFS.
When I add a new item (*.cs, *.js...), it does not add to the source control automatically. But the *.csproj file does include the file.
I am sure that I did not change any related settings.
I solved it by modifying the local config file LocalItemExclusions.config, because there is *.lib in my solution's name, it will be excluded.
When I deleted this line <Exclusion>*.lib</Exclusion> in the config file,
it worked (or you can change the namestyle to avoid it).
Double check if there are folders and branches called Release in your soucre control and their contents is automatically excluded from TFS (along with Debug and lots of file types). You can override this for particular folders by creating a .tfignore file.
More details about the solution please refer this similar question: Visual Studio 2015 new files not being added to source control automatically
If above is not working, check if you source control binding is correctly. File > Source Control > Advanced > Change Source Control.
If not, bind the solution and project to your source control server (unbind first if it's already bound).
We have noticed in Visual Studio 2015 since Update 3 that any files or projects that get added to our solution no longer get picked up by source control (TFS) automatically:
Image of solution explorer showing missing "+" sign
When we right click the Person.cs file and select "Add files to Source Control" we get the following dialog:
Image of source control dialog when trying to add file
I have seen some folks talk about using the .tfignore file to override this behavior but I have had no success at all with this approach.
Any help that can be provided would be great.
This is a known behavior and only occurs at Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 for a branch with "Release" name. Using Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, everything is ok.
Folders called Release and their contents is automatically excluded from TFS (along with Debug and lots of file types). Just as your folks suggested, you could also override this for particular folders by creating a .tfignore file, detail info please refer this link: Customize which files are ignored by version control
Customize which files are ignored by version control
By default certain types of files (for example, .dll files) are
ignored by version control. As a result:
When you add ignored files to folders that are mapped in a local
workspace, they do not appear in the Pending Changes page in Team
Explorer.
When you try to add ignored files using the Add to Source Control
dialog box (for example by dragging them into Source Control
Explorer), they automatically appear in the Excluded items tab.
You can configure which kinds of files are ignored by placing text
file called .tfignore in the folder where you want rules to apply. The
effects of the .tfignore file are recursive. However, you can create
.tfignore files in sub-folders to override the effects of a .tfignore
file in a parent folder.
The related .tfignore file rules may help you:
.tfignore file rules
! negates a filespec (files that match the pattern are not ignored)
For example:
Do not ignore .dll files in this folder nor in any of its sub-folders !*.dll
I'm running VS Enterprise 2015. This infernal thing keeps wanting to add my solution's .vssscc file to version control. My .tfignore has this line:
*.vssscc
The other items in .tfignore are working fine, but for some reason this one is not. There are no other .tfignore files in the directory tree. Surely I'm overlooking something, but I'm pulling what's left of my hair out trying to figure out what. Any suggestions?
*.vssscc stands for Visual Studio Solution Source Control File
When a solution is added to source control, a corresponding .vssscc file is created. The text file contains connection information and an exclusion file list, similar to the project hint file. This file is temporary and exists only in the source control database.
As a rule of thumb, we'd recommend letting Visual Studio handle those files. It'll add to source control the files it needs and leave out those not needed.
.vssscc files also manage the solution bindings, so better to have them controlled (by VS) .
Also, visual studio can have problems with the source control bindings if the files it needs are not under source control.
I have a project on visualstudio.com and I am connecting to it from VisualStudio 2013, In the team explorer, how to ignore .dll files from checkin?
I was doing the same in svn like this How do I ignore files in Subversion?
If you're using Team Foundation Version Control, you can create .tfignore files in folders in your workspace to ignore any files that VS is not ignoring by default.
If you're using Git version control, you can create a .gitignore file. You can get a .gitignore for your project type here, or go into Settings in Visual Studio Team Explorer to add one automatically.
You can check-in/commit tfignore and gitignore files into source control so that the specified files are ignored for everyone. Any files that were already added to the repository will not be affected, however; those have to be removed manually.
how to ignore a local folder in a vs.net solution from being updated to TFS?
I have a web service reference, and I don't want this being saved to the TFS source control.
Each time I check-in, the service folder and its 1000's of files are pre-selected.
Navigate to File > Source Control > Change source Control and choose the folder that you to exclude and unbind the mapping of that folder to your workspace.
You could remove the folder from Source Control. This will also delete the folder on the local file system, so make sure to make a copy of the sources first.However Visual Studio will add the files to Source Control once you add the files to the project again, so it might not work.
Another option, however not sure if it will work, is to cloak the folder in the workspace mapping.