# Dealing with TFS **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155 "2010-01-23T16:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/1 "2010-01-23T16:41:29Z")
Hi How do you guys deal with TFS? My guys have settled on Rubymine as their IDE, but their SCM is TFS of course as it’s a .NET shop. As you’re well aware off TFS has the unfortunate habit of marking files as read-only and AFAIK there isn’t an easy way to make it detect new files short of going through all the folders and manually adding the new files. When you’re on a roll with a rails app for example this can mean there are quite a few files that need to be added. ## What is the workflow you settled on? use git for everything and once in a while make it sync with TFS? Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/2 "2010-01-23T17:07:14Z")
I know some people who like “tfpt online” (from TFS Power Tools[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en)) for the purpose of adding a bunch of new files to a preexisting enlistment. I’ve never used it myself. From: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 7:28 AM To: ironruby-core Subject: [Ironruby-core] dealing with TFS Hi How do you guys deal with TFS? My guys have settled on Rubymine as their IDE, but their SCM is TFS of course as it’s a .NET shop. As you’re well aware off TFS has the unfortunate habit of marking files as read-only and AFAIK there isn’t an easy way to make it detect new files short of going through all the folders and manually adding the new files. When you’re on a roll with a rails app for example this can mean there are quite a few files that need to be added. ## What is the workflow you settled on? use git for everything and once in a while make it sync with TFS? Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([IronRuby in Action - Ivan Porto Carrero and Adam Burmister | Manning](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/3 "2010-01-23T23:47:31Z")
We’ve got a couple of people using the TFS-\>SVN bridge, which I think is made by the codeplex guys. It’s SLOW, but it works well for them, as they’re on smaller projects. ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/4 "2010-01-23T19:49:55Z")
Tfpt online is nice for that purpose. tf folderdiff . /r (recursive on this directory) is another way to detect changes, but it’s a pain since it re-syncs everytime you make a change. Rails would make it hard, but a few other options I can think of to help: a) If it’s a new project, maybe Codeplex’s new Mercurial support can convince them to use something different b) I can help you get setup to sync Git with TFS like we do for IronRuby. It’s a bit of a kludge right now, but it works. Jimmy and I are both trying to make it better, but neither of us have the time yet. c) Write a plugin for rails that hooks into the generator’s SCM support (-g and –s options) to add and edit files as it works. One other thing I have for working within TFS. I map :w to :w! (to overwrite read-only files). And I have defined te and ta which simply call :!tf edit % and :!tf add %. The percent expands to the current file. Whenever I touch a file I run this command, of course, this requires you to launch vim from a command line that has TF in the path. JD From: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Curt Hagenlocher Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:02 AM To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] dealing with TFS I know some people who like “tfpt online” (from TFS Power Tools[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en)) for the purpose of adding a bunch of new files to a preexisting enlistment. I’ve never used it myself. From: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 7:28 AM To: ironruby-core Subject: [Ironruby-core] dealing with TFS Hi How do you guys deal with TFS? My guys have settled on Rubymine as their IDE, but their SCM is TFS of course as it’s a .NET shop. As you’re well aware off TFS has the unfortunate habit of marking files as read-only and AFAIK there isn’t an easy way to make it detect new files short of going through all the folders and manually adding the new files. When you’re on a roll with a rails app for example this can mean there are quite a few files that need to be added. ## What is the workflow you settled on? use git for everything and once in a while make it sync with TFS? Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([IronRuby in Action - Ivan Porto Carrero and Adam Burmister | Manning](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/5 "2010-01-24T00:06:15Z")
svnbridge doesn’t work with rubymine or git-svn but it does with tortoise etc. The source control needs to work from within the environment, at least that’s what the boss told me. this looks promising too with a few rake tasks perhaps: [http://jeroen.haegebaert.com/post/2008/08/23/Dealing-with-the-quirks-of-TFS-using-git-take-2](http://jeroen.haegebaert.com/post/2008/08/23/Dealing-with-the-quirks-of-TFS-using-git-take-2) I’ll check out the ironruby source code too on how you do it. * * * Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([http://manning.com/carrero](http://manning.com/carrero)) ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/6 "2010-01-27T05:41:30Z")
I’ve not gone through the full post, but based on the title this might help: > **[How to get Git and TFS Working Together](http://richardsbraindump.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-get-git-and-tfs-working-together.html)** > > Update: There's now a second approach for doing this that you may want to look at TFS has a lot going for it and from a team perspective it... On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Jimmy S. \< ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2010, 9:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dealing-with-tfs/182155/7 "2010-01-26T09:38:18Z")
That blogpost is basically all Jim and I would want to do – wrap the GIT and TFS command-lines. A step above that would be to use grit (GIT implementation in Ruby … or even Git#) as well as the TFS APIs. But as Jim said, we haven’t found the time to make this really nice, so I welcome anyone else to do so. As a starter, here’s my notes on using TFS and GIT together; it’d be great to just get some easy-to-use scripts to wrap this up: > **[286677’s gists](https://gist.github.com/286677)** > > GitHub Gist: star and fork 286677's gists by creating an account on GitHub. ~Jimmy From: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Ivan Porto Carrero Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 3:06 PM To: [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] dealing with TFS svnbridge doesn’t work with rubymine or git-svn but it does with tortoise etc. The source control needs to work from within the environment, at least that’s what the boss told me. this looks promising too with a few rake tasks perhaps: [http://jeroen.haegebaert.com/post/2008/08/23/Dealing-with-the-quirks-of-TFS-using-git-take-2](http://jeroen.haegebaert.com/post/2008/08/23/Dealing-with-the-quirks-of-TFS-using-git-take-2) I’ll check out the ironruby source code too on how you do it. * * * Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([IronRuby in Action - Ivan Porto Carrero and Adam Burmister | Manning](http://manning.com/carrero)) On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Orion E. \<[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)\> wrote: We’ve got a couple of people using the TFS-\>SVN bridge, which I think is made by the codeplex guys. It’s SLOW, but it works well for them, as they’re on smaller projects. On 24/01/2010, at 4:28 AM, Ivan Porto C. wrote: Hi How do you guys deal with TFS? My guys have settled on Rubymine as their IDE, but their SCM is TFS of course as it’s a .NET shop. As you’re well aware off TFS has the unfortunate habit of marking files as read-only and AFAIK there isn’t an easy way to make it detect new files short of going through all the folders and manually adding the new files. When you’re on a roll with a rails app for example this can mean there are quite a few files that need to be added. ## What is the workflow you settled on? use git for everything and once in a while make it sync with TFS? Met vriendelijke groeten - Best regards - Salutations Ivan Porto C. Blog: [http://flanders.co.nz](http://flanders.co.nz)[http://flanders.co.nz/](http://flanders.co.nz/) Twitter: [http://twitter.com/casualjim](http://twitter.com/casualjim) Author of IronRuby in Action ([IronRuby in Action - Ivan Porto Carrero and Adam Burmister | Manning](http://manning.com/carrero)) * * * Ironruby-core mailing list [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core) * * * Ironruby-core mailing list [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core](http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core)