Real TFS Command Line Help

John Lyon-Smith, a developer on my team, put togther this extensive command line help for Team Foundation's TF.exe command.  In his own words...

After the umpteenth time of typing “tf –?” only to have it launch the MSDN documentation that usually isn’t installed in my Dogfood environment, I threw together a text file that contains the sort of memory jogging help that I (and probably others) would like to see printed in the console (hint hint).  I thought it would be nice to share it.

Handy Text Files
tfhelp.txt       120 Character Width
tfhelp80.txt   80 Character Width

Thanks John!

COMMANDS

Add tf add itemspec [lock:none|checkin|checkout] [/type:filetype]

              [/noprompt] [/recursive]

Branch tf branch olditem newitem [/version:versionspec] [/noget] [/lock]

              [/noprompt] [/recursive]

Branches tf branches [/s:servername] itemspec

Changeset tf changeset [/comment:comment|@commentfile] /s:servername

              [/notes:("NoteFieldName"="NoteFieldValue"|@notefile)] [/noprompt]

              ([/latest]|changesetnumber)

Checkin tf checkin [/author:authorname] [/comment:("comment"|@commentfile)]

              [/noprompt]

              [/notes:("Note Name"="note text"|@notefile)]

              [/override:reason|@reason] [/recursive] filespec ...]

Checkout tf checkout|edit [/lock:(none|checkin|checkout)] [/recursive]

              [/type:encoding] itemspec

Configure tf configure pathtoproject /server:servername

Delete tf delete [/lock:(none|checkin|checkout)] [/recursive] itemspec

Difference tf difference itemspec [/version:versionspec] [/type:filetype]

              [/format:(visual|unix|ss)] [/ignorespace]

              [/ignoreeol] [/ignorecase] [/recursive] [/options:"options"]

           tf difference itemspec itemspec2 [/type:filetype]

              [/format:(visual|unix|ss)] [/ignorespace] [/ignoreeol]

              [/ignorecase] [/recursive] [/options:"options"]

           tf difference [/shelveset:[shelvesetowner;]shelvesetname]

              shelveset_itemspec [/server:serverURL]

              [/type:filetype] [/format:(visual|unix|ss)] [/ignorespace]

              [/ignoreeol] [/ignorecase] [/recursive] [/options:"options"]

           tf difference /configure

Dir tf dir [/s:servername] itemspec [/version:versionspec] [/recursive]

              [/folders] [/deleted]

Get tf get itemspec [/version:versionspec] [/all] [/overwrite] [/force]

              [/preview] [/recursive] [/noprompt]

Help tf help commandname

History tf history [/s:servername] itemspec [/version:versionspec]

              [/stopafter:number] [/recursive]

              [/user:username] [/format:(brief|detailed)] [/slotmode]

Label tf label [/s:servername] labelname@scope [/owner:ownername]

              itemspec [/version:versionspec]

              [/comment:("comment"|@commentfile)] [/child:(replace|merge)]

              [/recursive]

           tf label [/s:servername] [/delete] labelname@scope

              [/owner:ownername] itemspec [/version:versionspec]

              [/recursive]

Labels tf labels [/owner:ownername] [/format:(brief|detailed)]

              [/s:servername] [labelname]

Lock tf lock itemspec /lock:(none|checkout|checkin)

              [/workspace:workspacename] [/server:serverURL] [/recursive]

              [/noprompt]

Merge tf merge [/recursive] [/force] [/candidate] [/discard]

              [/version:versionspec]

              [/lock:none|checkin|checkout] [/preview] [/baseless] [/nosummary]

              source destination

Merges tf merges [/s:servername] [source] destination [/recursive]

Permission tf permission [/allow:(* |perm1[,perm2,…]]

              [/deny:(*|perm1[,perm2,...])]

              [/remove:(* |perm1[,perm2,...])]

              [/inherit:yes|no] [/user:username1[,username2,…]] [/recursive]

              [/group:groupname1[,groupname2,...]]

              [/server:servername] itemspec

Properties tf properties [/recursive] itemspec

Rename tf rename [/lock:(none|checkout|checkin)] olditem newitem

Resolve tf resolve itemspec [auto:(AcceptMerge|AcceptTheirs|AcceptYours)]

              [/preview]

              [(/overridetype:overridetype | /converttotype:converttype)]

              [/recursive]

Shelve tf shelve [/move] [/replace] [/comment:(@commentfile|"comment")]

              [/recursive] shelvesetname[;owner] filespec

           tf shelve /delete [/server:serverURL] shelvesetname[;owner]

Shelvesets tf shelvesets [/owner:ownername] [/format:(brief|detailed)]

              [/server:serverURL] shelvesetname

Status tf status itemspec [/s:servername]

              ([/workspace:workspacename[;workspaceowner]] |

              [/shelveset:shelvesetname[;shelvesetowner]])

              [/format:(brief|detailed)] [/recursive] [/user:(*|username)]

Undelete tf undelete [/noget] [/lock:(none|checkin|checkout)]

              [/newname:name] [/recursive] itemspec[;deletionID]

Undo tf undo [/workspace:workspacename [;workspaceowner]]

              [/s:servername] [/recursive] itemspec

Unlabel tf unlabel [/s:servername] [/recursive] labelname itemspec

Unshelve tf unshelve [/move] [shelvesetname[;username]] itemspec

View tf view [/s:servername] [/console] [/noprompt] itemspec

              [/version:versionspec]

WorkFold tf workfold localfolder

           tf workfold [/workspace: workspacename]

           tf workfold [/s:servername] [/workspace: workspacename]

              repositoryfolder

           tf workfold [/map] [/s:servername] [/workspace: workspacename]

          repositoryfolder|localfolder

           tf workfold /unmap [/s:servername] [/workspace: workspacename]

              [/recursive] (repositoryfolder|localfolder)

           tf workfold /cloak (repositoryfolder|localfolder)

              [/workspace: workspacename] [/s:servername]

           tf workfold /decloak (repositoryfolder|localfolder)

              [/workspace:workspacename] [/s:servername]

Workspace tf workspace /new [/noprompt]

              [/template:workspacename[;workspaceowner]]

     [/computer:computername] [/comment:("comment"|@commentfile)]

              [/s:servername]

           tf workspace /delete [/s:servername]

              workspacename[;workspaceowner]

           tf workspace [/s:servername] [/comment:comment]

  [/newname:workspacename] workspacename[;workspaceowner]

Workspaces tf workspaces [/owner:ownername] [/computer:computername]

              [/s:servername] [/format:(brief|detailed)]

              [/updateUserName:oldusername]

              [/updateComputerName:oldcomputername] workspacename

ITEMSPECS

  Can contain wildcards *, ? and #

  Can contain relative path parts . and ..

  Can reference file system or UNC paths mapped to a workspace or server

  paths (which start with $/). You can usually specify more than one

  file separated by spaces for an itemspec (useful for edit, add, delete

  commands)

VERSIONSPECS

  Date/Time Dmm/dd/yyyy

  Changeset number Cnnnnnn

  Label Llabelname

  Latest version T

  Workspace Wworkspacename;workspaceowner

ALIASES

  /changeset /G /noprompt /I

  /comment /C /owner /O

  /computer /M /recursive /R

  /delete /D /server /S

  /force /P /slotmode /X

  /format /F /template /T

  /help /?,/H /user /U

  /lock /K /version /V

  /login /Y /workplace /W

  /newname /N