how to find all changes below a certain point in the source control tree

Question

I need to know what changes (if any) have happened at a particular level in our source control treee. Is there someway to make such a query of TFS?

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, the answer could be as simple as:

tf history c:\some\subdir -r -format:detailed -noprompt

Reply if that's not good enough.

Answer 2

Using Team Explorer:

1. Open Source Control Explorer
2. Navigate to desired source control folder
3. Right-click and choose View History

Shows you all of the changesets that have been checked in at that level in the tree or below.


Using the tf utility:

tf history c:\localFolder -r -format:detailed

Here's a link to the tf history documentation for more details on usage: link


Using the TFS SDK to do it programatically:

Here's a sample method based on some of our code. It takes a path, start time and end time and gives you all of the changeset details below that path in between the two specified times:

private StringBuilder GetTfsModifications(string tfsPath, DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)
    {
        StringBuilder bodyContent = new StringBuilder();

        TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer("YourServerNameHere");
        VersionControlServer vcs = (VersionControlServer)tfs.GetService(typeof(VersionControlServer));

        // Get collection of changesets below the given path
        System.Collections.IEnumerable changesets = vcs.QueryHistory(tfsPath, VersionSpec.Latest, 0, RecursionType.Full, null, new DateVersionSpec(startTime), new DateVersionSpec(endTime), int.MaxValue, true, false);

        // Iterate through changesets and extract any data you want from them
        foreach (Changeset changeset in changesets)
        {
            StringBuilder changes = new StringBuilder();
            StringBuilder assocWorkItems = new StringBuilder();

            // Create a list of the associated work items for the ChangeSet
            foreach (WorkItem assocWorkItem in changeset.WorkItems)
            {
                assocWorkItems.Append(assocWorkItem.Id.ToString());
            }

            // Get details from each of the changes in the changeset
            foreach (Change change in changeset.Changes)
            {
                changes.AppendLine(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "\t{0}\t{1}", PendingChange.GetLocalizedStringForChangeType(change.ChangeType), change.Item.ServerItem));
            }

            // Get some details from the changeset and append the individual change details below it
            if (changes.Length > 0)
            {
                bodyContent.AppendLine(string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}\t{1}\t{2}\t{3}\t{4}", changeset.ChangesetId, changeset.Committer.Substring(changeset.Committer.IndexOf('\\') + 1), changeset.CreationDate, changeset.Comment, assocWorkItems.ToString()));
                bodyContent.Append(changes.ToString());
            }
        }

        return bodyContent;
    }