Shelving Pending Changes in TFS

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Aaron picture Aaron · Apr 14, 2009 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

Right now I have some major code changes that won't be done in time for an upcoming release and need to be shelved. Is there a good way to get these changes out of my workspace but be able to return to them later? Maybe I am missing something, but looks like the changes remain in the workspace even when they are shelved.

Is there a better way to do this? I'd prefer not to create another workspace.

We're using VS 2008 and TFS 2008.

Answer

Chris Shaffer picture Chris Shaffer · Apr 14, 2009

When you shelve the changes, there is a checkbox towards the bottom "Preserve pending changes locally". Uncheck that and it will undo the checkouts on the files as it builds the Shelf.

Also, once a shelf is created you can safely undo the checkouts yourself; Same result but I consider the checkbox a little safer in that it only undoes the checkout on files that you are shelving (so you won't accidentally undo the checkout of a file that you missed or intentionally didn't shelve).

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