Question

I checked in a changeset adding ~10 media files to my TFS branch. However, upon successive calls to ‘Get Latest’ by the rest of the people on the branch, none of them were able to actually get the files until they chose ‘Get Specific Version’ from Source Control Explorer, and checked both boxes.

It should be noted that these media files were in the same folder as the project they belonged to; however they are not part of the project/solution (you can’t see them from Solution Explorer in Visual Studio).

Here are my two ideas of what (may) have been the issue:

• They chose to ‘Get Latest’ from the Solution Explorer rather than the Source Control Explorer; updating their workspace version but not actually downloading the files.

• Adding these files somehow did not count as a change.

I realize that it is difficult to try and answer a question with such limited information, but I am curious as to why they weren’t the able to get the new media files.

Also, how could problems like this be avoided in the future (best practices)?

Answer 1

Adding files will always count as a change.

I would assume that your first idea is what’s happening. Get Latest from the solution explorer only updates those files in the solution tree. If the files are part of the solution, you may want to consider adding them as content items so they are updated appropriately.