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Asked: 2026-06-12T07:50:25+00:00

What is the easiest way to apply the changes from a specific changeset from

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What is the easiest way to apply the changes from a specific changeset from one TFS instance on another instance?

What I want is to get some sort of patch file from instance A that I can apply to instance B. Since there are two different instances, a traditional branch/merge approach cannot be used. And as far as I know, TFS has poor support for patch files in the traditional Unix-sense.

Do I really need to inspect a changeset on instance A and manually zip the relevant files which I can then extract into the source tree of instance B?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out that the “patch” route was a dead end due to lack of support in TFS. The solution we ended up with was to perform a nightly job which basically does the following:

    1. Get all code from remote repo with a read-only user.
    2. Overwrite all content of a separate branch in our repo with the content from the other.
    3. Perform a merge from that separate branch to the main branch whenever we want to bring their changes into our main branch.
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