Azure DevOps / Team Foundation Server Configuration¶
RBTools supports posting changes against TFVC repositories hosted on Azure DevOps Server / Team Foundation Server and Azure DevOps Services. Depending on what version of Visual Studio (or other development environment) you’re using, there are different requirements for supporting Azure DevOps / Team Foundation Server TFVC repositories. These aren’t needed when working with Git repositories hosted on Azure DevOps / TFS.
The table below summarizes the three different methods and the different features which are available under each.
Note that if you’re running VS2017 or higher, the only option available is the built-in tf.exe method.
VS2017+ tf.exe |
rb-tfs adaptor |
Team Explorer Everywhere |
|
|---|---|---|---|
OS support |
Windows |
All |
All |
Visual Studio versions |
2017+ |
2010, 2013, 2015 |
2010, 2013, 2015 |
Posting pending changes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Posting committed changes |
No |
Yes |
No |
Posting shelvesets |
No |
Yes |
No |
VS2017+ tf.exe¶
Visual Studio 2017 and higher include a command-line tool, tf.exe, which includes enough support for RBTools to post pending changes to Review Board. Committed changes can be posted, but only through the web UI, and shelvesets are not supported.
Due to changes in Microsoft’s data storage formats, if you’re using VS2017+, the other options (the rb-tfs adaptor and Team Explorer Everywhere) will not work.
This method requires GNU diff but no other installation.
rb-tfs adaptor¶
When using Visual Studio 2010 through 2015, the Team Explorer Everywhere tools, or the TFS extensions for Eclipse, we provide a custom adaptor which supports posting pending, committed, or shelved changes.
To install the rb-tfs adaptor, run:
$ rbt install tfs
Team Explorer Everywhere¶
If you have the Team Explorer Everywhere command-line tools installed, RBTools can use that for posting committed changes. In all cases where you might use this, the rb-tfs adaptor adaptor is faster and supports more features. Team Explorer Everywhere works with Visual Studio 2010 through 2015.