I’m currently transfering some source code from a Subversion (SVN) repository to my client’s Team Foundation Server. One of the things I stumbled upon is that there seems to be no way to edit the repository without first pulling all files in that repository to a local working folder in the local workspace. I’m using Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer.
My repository resembles this structure:
$ $/branches $/trunk $/trunk/Solution1 $/trunk/Solution1/... etc. Now what I want to do is add a new folder in the root of the trunk (i.e. $/trunk/Docs). Because the Solution1 folder tree ($/trunk/Solution1) contains a lot of data, I don’t want to first get a local copy of that folder. I want to create the new ‘Docs’ folder server-side. However, I noticed the ‘New Folder’ button on the Source Control Explorer toolbar is grayed out when the selected repository folder isn’t available as a working folder in the local workspace.
Using SVN this never was a problem, because using TortoiseSVN I can create a new folder server-side using the Repo-Browser. SVN doesn’t require you to check out its parent folder first.
Does anybody know how to server-side edit a TFS repository? Did I miss some trivial thing?
You don’t need to get a local copy, but you do need to map the server-side folder to a workspace on your local machine.
In source control explorer, use the ‘Workspaces…’ drop down box to create such a mapping. I find that the simplest approach is to map the root node in TFVC ($) to a directory on your local machine such as c:\tfs, and allow the hierarchy to propogate downwards.