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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:30:26+00:00

We’re using MS Visual Studio 2008. TFS seems to take into account the creation

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We’re using MS Visual Studio 2008.

TFS seems to take into account the creation date of a file or something, to determine whether the files should be committed.

Is it possible to make TFS test just on the filename and content?

  • I check out an xml or txt file
  • I copy the content
  • I open notepad and paste
  • I save the file using the same name, and confirm the overwrite
  • I commit: TFS by default selects the file for committing

Although the name nor the content has changed.

Our concrete use case:
We nightly run a script that generates xml files (overwriting existing files) and commits them.
We would like to commit only the ones that actually changed to keep the history clean.

Thanks in advance!
Jan

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  1. Editorial Team

    When you actually perform the check-in of the file, have a look at the changeset that actually is created in the history view. Normally TFS will check the contents of the files uploaded and will only include a file in the changeset if the MD5 hash of the file is different to the last version that was in version control.

    Is this not what you see? Do you have multiple versions of the same file that are identical in content? If so – what extension do the files have? .XML or something else?

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