How can I Export the Compare Folder results from Team Foundation Source Control

Question

Hello,

Having run a compare between a main branch folder and a given changeset in Source Control (Visual Studio TFS), and finding a number of differences, I would like to export the results to a spreadsheet so that it can be passed around and notes made etc...

Is there any way that I can export this list results from the Folder Difference screen?

Cheers

Nige

Answer 1

Not directly afaik, your best bet is to create a new workspace, check out the specific changeset, and use Beyond Compare / GNU diff -urw | grep "^diff" / et al. to get the list out.

Answer 2

A good solution is to copy and paste into Excel.

Start at the top, select all the items Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V into Excel.

Answer 3

Not to take anything away from Joe's super cool answer, but I should point out this is also possible from the command line.

C:\Temp>tf folderdiff /?
TF - Team Foundation Version Control Tool
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Displays a visual representation of the differences between files in two server
folders, in a server folder and a local folder, or in two local folders.

tf folderdiff [sourcePath] targetPath [/recursive] [/noprompt]
              [/server:serverName:port] [/filter:filter]
              [/filterLocalPathsOnly]
              [/view:same,different,sourceOnly,targetOnly]

Pass /noprompt (aka /i) to print a textual display to the console or redirect it to a file. E.g.:

tf folderdiff . /r /i > diffs.txt

Answer 4

I think it is a failing in TFS that it does not let you 'get' just the differences. As it can be used for items not created using VS, it is helpful ot be able to just get differences when building patches etc. Most other tools provide this function.