{"id":7353,"date":"2006-08-31T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2006\/08\/31\/a-question-about-displaying-history-of-files-stored-in-team-foundation-source-control\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:52:33","slug":"a-question-about-displaying-history-of-files-stored-in-team-foundation-source-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/a-question-about-displaying-history-of-files-stored-in-team-foundation-source-control\/","title":{"rendered":"A question about displaying history of files stored in Team Foundation source control."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We received this question from Gary:<font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"3\">I am a bit new to Team Server world. I was asked the question on how would I retrieve all the files that are currently checked out and by whom. This lead to my wandering around VS and the internet for a while and not being able to see an easy solution. So that is where this email comes in. How would I search the Source Control Explorer to get back a report that tells me who has what files checked out and in what is that files path. Secondly, is there query capabilities to look for a word in all files in a directory (I realize I can do this if I pull down all the files but I would prefer not to do that).<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">In the latest version on Visual Studio Team System, the best way to get this information is by using <strong>tf.exe history<\/strong> command.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">For more information, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/yxtbh4yh.aspx\">History Command<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">HTH,<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\">Q<\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received this question from Gary: I am a bit new to Team Server world. I was asked the question on how would I retrieve all the files that are currently checked out and by whom. This lead to my wandering around VS and the internet for a while and not being able to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We received this question from Gary: I am a bit new to Team Server world. I was asked the question on how would I retrieve all the files that are currently checked out and by whom. This lead to my wandering around VS and the internet for a while and not being able to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}