Creating a patch is very easy in SubVersion, With Tortoise, you right-click and select Create Patch. But for the life of me, I can't find this functionality in TFS. Is this possible?
If not, what's the standard way to submit patches in open source TFS hosted projects (a la CodePlex)?
tf diff /shelveset:shelveset /format:unified
Edit: This writes to standard output. You can pipe the output to a file.
Codeplex uses is own client for creating patches see: http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlexClient/Wiki/View.aspx?title=HowToContribute&referringTitle=Home
Curt, can that create a separate file (like SubVersions .patch)?
Edward, thanks, but I would love to do that without having to download yet another app. And yes, I'm being nitpicky.
Because TFS doesn't natively support patch files, the most common thing I see people do on CodePlex is simply zip the modified files and upload the zip. The project coordinator then does a diff against their own checkout.
However since CodePlex also supports TortoiseSVN, more and more people are using that to create their patch files.