How do I access the TFS workspace of an employee that has quit to review/check in some of the changes?

Question

One of my co-workers has resigned and was made to leave the premises before checking in all of his code to TFS. I have access to the physical files. Is there a way for me to access his workspace and check in some of the changes that are still left unchecked in? From tfs I can see which files he has checked out but no way of seeing the exact changes unless very manually.

Answer 1

This is probably a quick and dirty way of doing it:

• Shelve or check-in your own work.
• Copy the relevant files from your co-worker into your own workspace
• Compare the files with latest in TFS

//huusom

Answer 2

Have your sys-admin reset the users password to a known value, login as the user on that machine and voila, you are the user...

Answer 3

You could use some diff tool like beyond compare to visualise the actual differences.

To manage others' workspaces and even checked out files it is hard to beat Team Sidekicks, which is free and provides brilliant interface for this and many other routine TFS work.

Answer 4

1) Copy the files from his machine.

2) Administratively undo his checkout.

3) Check out the files on your machine.

4) Overwrite your files with his files.

5) Your machine state should now roughly equal his; do as many comparisons as you want.