Why doesn t TFS get latest get the latest

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Why Why WHY doesn t TFS s get latest work consistently   You would have thought that feature would have been tested thoroughly   What I have to do is  get specific version  then check both overwrite writetable files   overwrite all files   Is my local setup messed up or you do this also

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WHen I run into this problem with it not getting latest and version mismatches I first do a  Get Specific Version  set it to changeset and put in 1  This will then remove all the files from your local workspace  for that project  folder  file  etc  and it will also have TFS update so that it knows you now have NO VERSION DOWNLOADED  You can then do a  Get Latest  and viola  you will actually have the latest

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just want to add TFS MSBuild does not support special characters on folders i e       i had experienced in the past where one of our project folders named as External Project1  we created a TFS Build definition to run a custom msbuild file then the workspace folder is not getting any contents at the External Project1 folder during workspace get latest   It seems that tfs get is failing but does not show any error   after some trial and error and renaming the folder to  Project1  voila we got files on the the folder   Project1

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I had the same issue with Visual Studio 2012  No matter what I did  it didn t get the code from TFS source control   In my case  the cause was mappings a folder   subfolder from the source control separately but to the same tree in my local HD   The solution was removing the subfolder mapping using the  manage workspaces  window

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Go with right click   Advanced   Get Specific Version  Select  Letest Version  and now  important  mark two checks     The checks are  Overwrite writeable files that are not checked  Overwrite all files even if the local version matches the specified version

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Most of the issues I ve seen with developers complaining that Get Latest doesn t do what they expect stem from the fact that they re performing a Get Latest from Solution Explorer rather than from Source Control Explorer  Solution Explorer only gets the files that are part of the solution and ignores anything that may be required by files within the solution  and therefore part of source control  whereas Source Control explorer compares your local workspace against the repository on the server to determine which files are needed

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TFS  like some other source control providers  such as Perforce  do this  as the system knows what the last version you successfully got was  so get latest turns into  get changes since x   If you play by its rules and actually check things out before editing them  you don t confuse matters  and  get latest  really does as it says   As you ve seen  you can force it to reassess everything  which has a much greater bandwidth usage  but behaves closer to how SourceSafe used to

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Sometimes Get specific version even checking both checkboxes won t get you the latest file  You ve probably made a change to a file  and want to undo those changes by re-getting the latest version  Well    that s what Undo pending changes is for and not the purpose of Get specific version   If in doubt    undo pending check in on the file s   do a compare afterwards to make sure your file matches the expected version run a recursive  compare  on your whole project afterwards to see what else is different keep an eye on pending changes window and sometimes you may need to check  take server version  to resolve an incompatible pending change   And this one s my favorite that I just discovered      keep an eye out in the the Output window for messages such as this    Warning - Unable to refresh R  TFS-PROJECTS www example com ExampleMVC Example MVC Example MVC csproj because you have a pending edit    This critical message appears in the output window  No other notifications  Nothing in pending changes and no other dialog message telling you that the file you just requested explicitly was not retrieved  And yes - you resolve this by just running Undo pending changes and getting the file

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This worked for me   1  Exit Visual Studio 2  Open a command window and navigate to the folder    localappdata  Local Microsoft Team Foundation   3  Navigate to the sub folders for every version and delete the sub folder  cache  and its contents 4  Restart Visual Studio and connect to TFS  5  Test the Get Latest Version

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It s hard to respond to a statement without examples of how it s not working  but it s crucial to understand that TFVC  in  Server Workspace  mode  which was the mechanism prior to TFS 2012  does not examine the state of your local filesystem   TFVC Server Workspaces are a  checkout-edit-checkin  type of system where this is by-design  an intentional decision made to massively reduce the amount of file I O required to determine the state of your workspace   Instead  the workspace information is saved on the server   This allows TFVC Server Workspaces to scale to very large codebases very efficiently   If you are in a multi-gigabyte code base  like Visual Studio or the Windows source tree  then your client does not need to scan your local filesystem  looking for files that may have changed  because the contract you have with TFS is that you will explicitly check a file out when you want to edit it   You are expected to not mark a file as write-only and change it without explicitly checking it out first   If you go down this route  then the server does not know that you have made changes to your file  and performing a  Get Latest  operation will not update your local workspace  because you haven t told the server that you ve made changes   If you do subvert this mechanism then you can use the tfpt reconcile command to examine your local workspace for changes that you have made locally   If you find yourself using  Get Specific Version  and selecting the  force  and  overwrite  options  then it is very likely that you are in the habit of bypassing all of the enforcements that TFS has implemented to keep you from hurting yourself  and you should probably consider TFVC Local Workspaces   TFVC Local Workspaces provide an  edit-merge-commit  type of version control system  which means that you do not need to explicitly check files out before editing them and they are not read-only on-disk   Instead  you simply need to edit the file  and your client will scan the filesystem  notice the change  and present this as a pending change   TFVC Local Workspaces are recommended for small projects that do not require fine-grained permissions control  since they present a much nicer workflow   You are not required to be online  and you do not have to explicitly check files out before editing them   TFVC Local Workspaces are the default in TFS 2012  and if they are not enabled for you  then you should ask your server administrator    Organizations with very large codebases or strict auditing requirements may disable TFVC Local Workspaces    Eric Sink s excellent book Version Control By Example outlines the differences between checkout-edit-checkin and edit-merge-commit systems and when one is more appropriate than the other   The Professional Team Foundation Server 2013 book also provides excellent information about the differences between TFVC Server Workspaces and TFVC Local Workspaces   The MSDN documentation and blogs also provide detailed information    Decide between using a local or a server workspace Server workspaces vs  local workspaces Team Foundation Server     Trying to understand Server versus Local Workspaces

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TFS redefined what  Get Latest  does   In TFS terms  Get Latest means get the latest version of the files  but ignore the ones that the server thinks is already in your workspace   Which to me and just about everyone else on the planet is wrong   See this link  http   blogs microsoft co il blogs srlteam archive 2009 04 13 how-get-latest-version-really-works aspx  The only way to get it to do what you want is to Get Specific Version  then check both of the  Overwrite      boxes

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Unfortunately  there has to be one or more bugs in TFS 2008  since this problem regularly crop up on developer machines and build servers where I work as well   I can do Get Latest  I can see in the history list of the project that there have been commits after I last did a Get Latest  I have not touched the files on disk in any way  but after the  Get Latest  function has completed  when I check the TFS tab  some of the files still says that they re not the latest version   Obviously TFS is able to determine that I have old files locally  since the list says so  Yet  Get Latest fails to do that  get the latest version  If I do what you did  use the Get Specific version  and check the two checkboxes at the bottom of the dialog  then the files are retrieved   We changed our build servers to always use the Get Specific version type of function instead  so this part now works  but since our build server  TeamCity  also relies on checking if there have been changes to the files in order to kick off a build  sometimes it lapses into a  nothing changed  nothing to see here  move along  mode and does nothing until we forcibly run the build configuration   Note that I have experienced this problem on a machine that is never touched  except for get latest   build  both manually  so there s nothing tampering with the files  It s just TFS getting confused   One time this cropped up I verified that the files on disk was indeed binary identical to the version previously retrieved  so no manual tampering had been done with the files   Also  I fail to see how TFS can  know  whether files have changed on disk or not without actually looking at the contents  If one part of TFS can see that the files are indeed not the latest version  then the Get Latest version should absolutely be able to get the latest version  This in reference to comments to other answers here

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Tool  TFS Power Tools   Source  http   dennymichael net 2013 03 19 tfs-scorch   Command  tfpt scorch  recursive  deletes C  LocationOfWorkspaceOrFolder  This will bring up a dialog box that will ask you to Delete or Download a list of files   Select or Unselect the files accordingly and press ok  Appearance in Grid  CheckBox  FileName  FileAction  FilePath   Cause  TFS will only compare against items in the workspace   If alterations were made outside of the workspace TFS will be unaware of them    Hopefully someone finds this useful   I found this post after deleting a handful of folders in varying locations   Not remembering which folders I deleted excluded the usual Force Get Replace option I would have used

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Every time this happens to me  so far  is because I have local edits pending on the  csproj  project file  That file seems to keep a list of all the files included in the project  Any new files added by somebody else are  quot not downloaded quot  because they are not in my locally edited  now stale  project file  To get all the files I first have to undo pending changes to the  csproj file first then  quot get all quot   I do not have to undo other changes I have made  but I may have to go back and include my new files again  and then the next guy gets the same problem when he tries to  quot get all quot      It seems to me there is some fundamental kludginess when multiple people are adding new files at the same time   this is in  Net Framework projects  maybe the other frameworks like Core behave differently

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It might because you are login TFS as the same user  and the workspace name  based on machine name by default  is also the same  so TFS thinks your are on the same machine and same workspace  thus you already have the latest version of the files  so it wont get them for you   try rename your machine  and create a new workspace as a new machine

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Get latest version  by default will only download the files that have changed on the server since the last time you ran  Get latest version    TFS keeps track of the files you download so it doesn t spend time downloading the same version of the files again   If you are modifying the files outside of Visual Studio  this can cause the consistency problems it sounds like you are seeing

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Team Foundation Server  TFS  keeps track of its local copy in a hidden directory called  TF When you issue the  get Latest Version   TFS looks into this folder and see weather I have the latest copy or not  If it does it will not download the latest copy  It does not matter if you have the original file or not  In fact you might have deleted the entire folder  as in my case  and TFS won t fetch the latest copy because it does not look into the actual file but the hidden directory where it records changes  The flaw with this design is  anything done outside the system will not be recorded in TFS  For example  you may go into Windows explorer  delete a folder or file and TFS wont recognize it  It will be totally blind  At least I would expect there Windows would not let you delete this file but it does   One way to enforce the latest copy is to delete the hidden  TF folder manually  To do that  go to command prompt and navigate to the root folder where you project was checked out and issue this command  rd s  tf                       remove  TF folder and everything inside it   If you want to just check the hidden folder  you can do it using  dir  ah                       display hidden files and folders   Note  If you do it  the tf will think you do not have any local copy even though you have it in files and it will sync up everything again   Caution  Use this method at your own risk  Please do not use it on critical work

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It could happen when you use TFS from two different machines with the same account  if so you should compare to see changed files and check out them then get latest then undo pending changes to remove checkout

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In my case  Get specific version  even checking both check boxes and undoing all pending changes didn t work   Checked the work spaces  Edit current workspace  Check all paths  The solution path was incorrect and  was pointing to a deleted folder   Fixed the path and get latest worked fine

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