{"id":4733,"date":"2005-10-05T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2005\/10\/05\/tfs-version-control-command-line-tf-exe\/"},"modified":"2005-10-05T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T20:12:00","slug":"tfs-version-control-command-line-tf-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/tfs-version-control-command-line-tf-exe\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS version control command line: tf.exe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For folks who like command lines or those who&#8217;ve found the typical command line experience a little spartan, you should try tf.exe.<\/p>\n<p>One interesting feature of our command line is that it uses dialogs for a number of commands when you are running it interactively (i.e., you don&#8217;t specify \/noprompt or \/i).&nbsp; For instance, you get the same check-in dialog from the checkin command in tf.exe as you get from VS.<\/p>\n<p>The following commands bring up the same dialogs you&#8217;d find in VS.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>changeset<\/li>\n<li>checkin<\/li>\n<li>difference runs external diff viewer<\/li>\n<li>get will take you to the conflict dialog as necessary<\/li>\n<li>history<\/li>\n<li>resolve<\/li>\n<li>shelve<\/li>\n<li>unshelve<\/li>\n<li>view runs the associated editor<\/li>\n<li>workspace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That makes working with the command line a lot more convenient than you might otherwise think.&nbsp; You can find the command line docs on MSDN at <a title=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc31bk2e(en-us,vs.80).aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc31bk2e(en-us,vs.80).aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc31bk2e(en-us,vs.80).aspx<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For folks who like command lines or those who&#8217;ve found the typical command line experience a little spartan, you should try tf.exe. One interesting feature of our command line is that it uses dialogs for a number of commands when you are running it interactively (i.e., you don&#8217;t specify \/noprompt or \/i).&nbsp; For instance, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-4733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>For folks who like command lines or those who&#8217;ve found the typical command line experience a little spartan, you should try tf.exe. One interesting feature of our command line is that it uses dialogs for a number of commands when you are running it interactively (i.e., you don&#8217;t specify \/noprompt or \/i).&nbsp; For instance, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}