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Changeset command

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Displays information about and lets you change the attributes, such as comments and check-in notes, that are associated with a changeset.

Prerequisites

To use the changeset command, you must have the Read permission set to Allow for any files or folders in the changeset for which you wish to display full information. The only users who can modify the notes and comments that are associated with a changeset are the users who created the changeset or a user who has the Revise other user's changes global permission.

For more information, see Default TFVC permissions.

Syntax

tf changeset [/comment:("comment"|@commentfile)] 
[/notes:("NoteFieldName"="NoteFieldValue"|@notefile)] [/noprompt][/collection:TeamProjectCollectionUrl]] 
[changesetnumber | /latest][/login:username,[password]]

Parameters

Argument

Argument Description
comment Provides a comment about the check-in.
@<commentfile> Specifies a path of a file on disk that contains the comment used for the check-in.
<NoteFieldName>=<NoteFieldValue> Sets the value of the check-in note field. You can provide multiple, semicolon-separated field=value expressions.
@<notefile> Provides the path of a file on disk that contains check-in note field names and values in the format of field=value with one per line.
<TeamProjectCollectionUrl> The URL of the project collection that contains a changeset about which you want to display information or whose attributes you want to modify, for example, http://myserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection.
<username> Provides a value to the /user option. You can specify this argument as either Domain\username or username.
<changesetnumber> Identifies the changeset to be reviewed or modified. Can't be used with /latest.

Option

Option Description
/comment Replaces the changeset comment that was created during the check-in process, with a new comment.
/notes Provides one or more check-in notes to associate with the changeset.
/latest Specifies the most recent changeset. Can't be used with <changesetnumber>.
/noprompt Suppresses any prompts for input from you.
/collection Specifies the project collection.
/login Specifies the user name and the password to authenticate the user with Azure DevOps.

Remarks

A changeset is a set of file and folder revisions that were committed to the Team Foundation version control server as part of the same check-in event. For more information, see Working with Changesets.

You can use the changeset command to view the attributes of a changeset and modify its properties. You can use the history command to determine which changeset you want to obtain information about. For more information, see History Command.

For more information on how to use the tf command-line utility, see Use Team Foundation version control commands.

Examples

The following example displays detailed information about changeset 8675309 in an editable format in the Visual Studio Details for Changeset 8675309 - Source Files dialog box, and replaces the existing comment with This is a new comment.

c:\projects>tf changeset /comment:"This is a new comment." 8675309

After you enter the command, in the Visual Studio Details for Changeset 8675309 - Source Files dialog box, select Save to associate the comment with the changeset.

The following example provides two check-in notes to associate with the changeset.

c:\projects>tf changeset /notes:reviewer=Jo;Security = checked 8675309

The following example provides two check-in notes that include spaces in the values and names to associate with the changeset.

c:\projects>tf changeset /notes:"Code Reviewer"="John Smith";"Security Reviewer"="Chen Yang" 8675309

The following example associates the check-in notes included in the file notes.txt with the changeset 8675309.

c:\projects>tf changeset /notes:@notes.txt 8675309

Where the notes.txt can be in the following format:

field1=value1;
field2=value that
spans multiple
lines;
field3 = value3;

The following example replaces the existing comment for changeset 8675309 and displays information about the changeset in the command prompt window. This example doesn't open the Visual Studio Changeset dialog box.

c:\projects>tf changeset /comment:"This is an automatically generated comment." /noprompt 8675309

The following example displays non-editable information about changeset 8675309 in the command prompt window.

c:\projects>tf changeset 8675309 /noprompt

Sample output:

Changeset: 8675309
User: DOMAIN\JohnG
Date: 01/21/2004 21:03:45
Comment:  This check-in fixes issues in several features.  I also refactored some items in buf.c into a new file named bif.c because buf.c was too hard to parse.
Items:
    $/baz/proj/bif.c           Added
    $/baz/proj/buf.c          Modified, Renamed
Work Items:
    34527     The "Access Denied" message isn't descriptive enough.
    35628     The UI flickers when I press the '8', 'y', 'Ctrl', and 'End' buttons at the same time.
Check-in Notes:
    Code Reviewer:  ShellM
    Performance Reviewer: ShellM
    Security Reviewer: ShellM