Question

How do you export history from TFS 2010 that includes the user, date and the complete comment (not truncated)?

For example, in Team Explorer: right-click team member name > show check-in history. This will bring up the user’s check-in history, but the comments are truncated.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to connect to the TFSWharehouse from excel, then pull the data from the source control history in a excel sheet. This is really simple and very powerful.

You’ll find useful info here: http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/getting_started.html

Edit:

Using the TFS API to enumerate the changesets when you don’t have access to SSAS (e.g. tfspreview.com for instance):

TeamProjectPicker tpp = new TeamProjectPicker(TeamProjectPickerMode.SingleProject, true);
tpp.ShowDialog();

var tpc = tpp.SelectedTeamProjectCollection;

VersionControlServer versionControl = tpc.GetService<VersionControlServer>();

var tp = versionControl.GetTeamProject("MyTeamProject");
var path = tp.ServerItem;

var q = versionControl.QueryHistory(path, VersionSpec.Latest, 0, RecursionType.Full, null, new ChangesetVersionSpec(1), VersionSpec.Latest, Int32.MaxValue, false, true, false, false);

foreach (Changeset cs in q)
{
    var user = cs.Owner;
    var comment = cs.Comment;
    var date = cs.CreationDate;

    Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("[{3}] Date: {0}, User: {1}, Comment {2}", date, user, comment, cs.ChangesetId));
}