How do I rollback a TFS check-in?

Jason_1338 0
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I'd like to rollback a change I made recently in TFS. In Subversion, this was pretty straightforward. However, it seems to be an incredible headache in TFS:

Option 1: Get Prior Version

  1. Manually get prior version of each file
  2. Check out for edit
  3. Fail - the checkout (in VS2008) forces me to get the latest version

Option 2: Get TFS Power Tools

  1. Download Team Foundation Power Tools
  2. Issue rollback command from cmd line
  3. Fail - it won't work if there are any other pending changes

Option 3: Manually Undo Changes

  1. manually undo my changes, then commit a new changeset

Question

How do I rollback to a previous changeset in TFS?

rollback tfs visual-studio-2008 version-control
17 Answers
  1. Download and install Team Foundation Power Tools.
  2. Open up the Visual Studio command prompt
  3. Navigate to the directory on the file system that TFS is mapped to. If you don't do this you'll get an "Unable to determine the workspace" error when you try to roll back
  4. Make sure everything else is checked in or shelved
  5. run tfpt rollback to bring up the interface.
  6. Choose the changesets you want to rollback
  7. Check in the new versions of the files you rolled back

The big disadvantage of the tool is that it will want to refresh everything in your workspace before you can merge. I got around this issue by creating a new workspace just for the rollback which mapped directly to the place in the source tree where the affected files were.

If you need help to figure out which changesets to roll back, I find the code review tool in the free Team Foundation Side Kicks add-in very helpful.

Helephant_130280

Your solution #1 will work: 1. manually get prior version of each file

  1. check out for edit

  2. Checkin the file and Ignore server changes when prompted.

The reason why it failed for you is because you must have the "Get latest version of item on check out" option turned on. Turn this option off by going to Tools...Options...Source Control...Visual Studio Tema Foundation Server and unchecking "Get latest version of item on check out"

Cheers

user_436510
user_33810

If you did 1 check-in and you just want to undo it, that has a changeset # associated with it. Do a history on the folder in question to see the bad changeset. Open it up to see the details (all files changed, etc).

I believe that you can restore or undo a changeset from that screen, but my Visual Studio just crashed when I tried to do this. /sigh -- I definitely share your pain.

Where do I downmod TFS on this site?

user_33810
Phillip_Wells_30120

Ben Scheirman - the Changeset Details dialog does not have rollback functionality.

user_481480

Another option is TFSPlus. This Visual Studio Addin adds (among others) Get This Version command to the history window. If you have the file checked out it will replace it with that version. If you do a check in afterwards you will effectively do a rollback to that version.

It works on individual files instead of complete changesets, though.

user_1979130

Get Specific Version

In Version Type drop down select Type as Changeset

Use Changeset ... button to find your Changeset or just type in, if you know this number.

After you have the specific Changeset.

Check Out

Check In

user_5759590
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