Source Control Explorer Shows Pending Changes, But In Pending Changes Window does not show

Question

Hi,

In TFS Source Control Explorer it shows pending changes(edit,[more]) with my name, But In

Pending Chages window does not showing any pending changes.

What I thought is, Months ago my Visual Studio was crashe(at that time some files are

checked out, which i was not aware of that , due to automatic checkout nature of TFS),

due to that I copied new VMImage, without undo the pending changes(which are showing

currently in Source Control Explorer). One of my team memberwants to chekin new version

of that particular file. Now I need to undo my pending chages.

Answer 1

It sounds like you have them checked out under a different workspace. Try going to View->Other Windows->Source Control Explorer, then open the Workspace dropdown near the top of the screen, and select "Workspaces..."

I would suggest simply deleting any extra workspaces shown.

Answer 2

I've seen this problem. Sometimes when I have the pending changes window in 'flat display mode', it doesn't display my changes. I find if I click the toolbar icon at the top of the pending changes window with tooltip 'Change to folder view', then they display. I think this is a bug in the Team Explorer Client.

Answer 3

TFS is buggy everywhere. i think you need to check out the parent folder and use TFS power toys to undo all the rubbish unchanged item. TFS use file property to indicate whether or not a file has change, which sucks the most, and produce tons of usability problem.