What is the difference between shelve and check in in TFS?

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juan picture juan · Feb 5, 2009 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

What is the concept of each?

When is it ok to shelve your changes instead of checking in?

Answer

Darcy Casselman picture Darcy Casselman · Feb 5, 2009

Shelved means the changes are set aside for you to work on later.

Checked in means that the changes are made available to the rest of the team, will be in the build and will eventually ship.

Very different. Think of shelving as a tool for context switching when you're not done with a task. Checking in means you're done (at least a part of it).

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