TFS Checkout and Get Latest

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Can TFS be set to automatically Get Latest when checking out objects in AX?

Also, is there a way to ensure you get warned and given an opportunity to merge when checking in an object when somebody else made changes after you did your checkout?

This has been unreliable for us and has resulted in unnecessary problems.

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Klaas Deforche 2,433 on at

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Hi,

What we do to get around this problem is disallow multiple checkout for .xpo files.

You can set this in Visual Studio by right clicking on your collection then choose Team Project Collection Settings - Source control file types... Then for the Dynamics xpo type, click edit and uncheck the "Enable file merging and multiple check out". This will then lock any xpo on checkout, but still allow for multiple checkout of label files for example.

It works for us, but I'm not sure if that's what you are after. It gets rid of the "merging problems", but you can't simultaneously work on the same object.

Concerning the get latest on check out, are you sure that isn't the case? The latest version is definitely getting imported when I check out. We've done some customizations but I don't think that was one of them (I will check).

There is an option in visual studio on the team project. Right click - Team Project Settings... - Source Control.

There is a checkbox "Enable get latest on check-out". It is not enabled for me yet the latest version is imported when I perform a check out.

The class.method SysVersionControlFilebasedBackEndTFS.requireSyncBeforeCheckOut always returns true which causes an get latest (I believe). If that doesn't happen for you, maybe you should debug this class when you checkout an item?

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Martin Dráb 237,795 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You should get the usual TFS merge dialog (an example here). What happens in your case?

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It hasn't been clear whether the option in Visual Studio was affecting checkouts in MorphX. I will take a look at SysVersionControlFilebasedBackEndTFS.requireSyncBeforeCheckOut.

Thanks.

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Most of the time, we get the merge dialog when there is a conflict. But on a few occasions, we haven't. It has caused problems, especially when hotfixes have been involved. I am trying to determine why the merge dialog doesn't appear sometimes.

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Hi Steve, did you find the cause for the missing merge dialog. We have started to see the same happening.

Thanks,

Torben

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Zahir Khan 35 on at

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Steve - To get the latest version on checkout, you need to enable the setting on TFS. In Visual Studio go to Team -> Team Project Settings -> Source Control. On the Check-out settings tab select Enable Get Latest on Checkout. This will assure that every object gets its latest version when checked-out by any developer.

For merge window, I havent faced the issue ever. Note that the merge window will only pop up in case there are conflicts in the changes made by multiple users.

Hope this helps!

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We have that set.

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No, we never did. It never happened often. I haven't experienced it for a long time. I think some of the other developers on our team might have though.

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