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Asked: 2026-05-26T05:45:09+00:00

I am about to migrate my Java project from CVS to TFS . I

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I am about to migrate my Java project from CVS to TFS. I use eclipse IDE for development and I am unsure about the drawbacks of TFS over CVS. Please let me know if you know any.

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  1. Editorial Team

    TFS really works best with Visual Studio suite, anything else and you will find it to be quite a struggle.

    • Eclipse doesn’t really have any hooks into TFS unlike Visual Studio, so you will be struggling a little when it comes to checking in/out files (unless there is a plugin that I am not aware of)
    • TFS is expensive. You need TFS server, and you need a client to access it (VS Team Edition and similar or Team Explorer)
    • Also, you can’t check out multiple branches/versions (from memory). You’re stuck with 1 working directory that is managed by Team Explorer.

    To be fair, TFS is a step up from CVS. But why stop there? Please look into 4th generation source control like Git, Mercurial (being the main 2) etc.

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