What do asterisks mean for tf merge output

Question

tf merge /recursive /candidate $/foo/ExUI $/bar/ExUI Changeset Author Date --------- -------------------------------- ---------- 23438 Fred_Bloggs 04/05/2010 23609 Jimmy_jones 11/05/2010 23943* John_doe 25/05/2010 

Can anyone explain what an asterisk means in the above issue. I suggested that it indicates changes that include changes outside the scope of the current request and which are "partial", but this is not the case with the study.

Any suggestions? It would be very helpful if there was a way to identify such changes. The current plan is that we have to upload the contents of each change set to a file and manually check for any changes outside the scope.

Answer 1

You should read the developer support developer post Partial Mergers in TFS Guide .

It could mean:

In the output, you will see an asterisk (*) next to changeset 138, which indicates that this is a partial merge. This means that only part of change set 138 was merged into change set 139. If we look at the merge candidates from Dev to Main, we can see that although we have already merged the changes into 138 to Main, it is still merging the candidate. This is due to the fact that a merge mechanism was discovered that included a set of 138 changes that were not propagated from Dev to Main.

I would read the whole post and see if it answers your question.