TFS annotate/blame summary report for a project

Question

In Team Foundation Server, I know that you can use the "Annotate" feature to see who last edited each line in a particular file (equivalent to "Blame" in CVS). What I'd like to do is akin to running Annotate on every file in a project, and get a summary report of all the developers who have edited a file in the project, and how many lines of code they currently "own" in that project.

Aside from systematically running Annotate of each file, I can't see a way to do this. Any ideas that would make this process faster?

PS - I'm doing to this to see how much of a consultant's code still remains in a particular (rather large) project, not to keep tabs on my developers, in case you're worried about my motivation :)

Answer 1

It's easy enough to use the "tf.exe history" command recursively across a directory of files in TFS. This will tell you who changed what files.

However what you're after is a little bit more than this - you want to know if the latest versions of any files have lines written by a particular user.

The Team Foundation Power Tools ship with a command-line version of annotate called "tfpt.exe annotate". This has a /noprompt option to direct the output to the console, but it only outputs the changeset id - not the user name.

You can use my tool tfsblame.exe to output the usernames: http://ozgrant.com/2006/07/11/tfsblameexe-who-wrote-that-line-of-code/

Then you could use something like this to run it across all files: C:\Code\Project1> for /R %a in (*) DO tfsblame.exe /server:yourserver "%a" >> output.txt

Or you could use the TFS VersionControl object model to write a tool that does exactly what you need.

Answer 2

http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/03/13/annotate.aspx

Answer 3

If you install the TFS Power tools (at least for VS2005); it's called annotate.

It might be part of VS2008...