Merge a task with TFS

Question

I am using TFS source control, and I fixed bug, and when I checked in my changes, I associate the check in with the task (that represent the bug).

Now, the complicated stuff. I want to merge the changes associated with that task, into another branch.

I couldn't find a way to do it in Visual Studio team system, or TFS source control explorer.

do you know any other tool that can be a help.

I am telling you, if I cannot do it in TFS, then TFS is crap, because I can do that in free other free source controls.

Thanks for help.

Answer 1

You need to look up the changeset # that was associated with the bug. Or find a 3rd party tool that wraps this functionality for you. (would take about 10 minutes to write one if you don't care about handling all the edge cases)

The native Merge commands do not let you use bug #s as input because bugs can be associated with an arbitrary number of changesets which may not be contiguous. My understanding is that TFS 2010 improves this in some common scenarios, but the general case is not soluble.

Answer 2

TFS allows merge a changeset.