I would like produce a list of merge candidates between two branches that includes the changeset comments in a format that I can copy paste in an email.
I know I can do this tf command:
tf merge /candidate $/Branch1 $/Branch2
Which returns something this:
Changeset Author Date
--------- -------------------------------- ----------
22282 developer1 08/09/2012
22354 developer2 08/14/2012
22361 developer2 08/14/2012
22365 developer2 08/14/2012
22381 developer3 08/15/2012
However, I'd like to get the comments as well. The Merge Wizard does something similar when doing a "Selected changesets" merge. Here is an example:
I was thinking that I might be able to combine tf merge /candidate in some way with this command:
tf changeset /noprompt 12345
Which outputs something like this:
Changeset: 12345
User: developer1
Date: Thursday, August 09, 2012 5:20:01 PM
Comment:
Completed various things
Items:
merge, edit $/Branch1/BreakFreely.asmx.vb
merge, edit $/Branch1/FreelyBroken.vb
Work Items:
ID Type State Assigned To Title
----- ------------------- ----- ------------ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
21406 Sprint Backlog Task Done JoDeveloper1 Fix various things
Check-in Notes:
Code Reviewer:
Complete Lyblind
In short, my desired outcome is something like this:
Changeset Author Date Comment
--------- -------------------------------- ---------- --------------------------
22282 developer1 08/09/2012 Fixed random stuff
22354 developer2 08/14/2012 Fixed specific stuff
What do you think?