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New Post: How many people are still using cpc/tfc?

onovotny — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:05:00 GMT

I'm using the TFC against a local TFS server to a poor-man's sync of a code branch between an SVN repo and TFS. As the given directory can't have two SVN repos, using SvnBridge is out. Given the way Team Explorer works with read-only files and workspaces, using it wouldn't work for the workflow. TFC is able to detect new/changed files (brought down from SVN) and check them into TFS.

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BurtHarris — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:52:49 GMT

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New Post: How many people are still using cpc/tfc?

bradwilson — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:30:13 GMT

I'm curious to know how many people are still using cpc/tfc, given that SvnBridge has been deployed and you can now use standard Subversion clients.

Show of hands? If you're still using cpc instead of a Subversion client, why?

New Post: How do I apply someones patch to my copy of someones project?

werD420 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:22:30 GMT

When I follow the exact instructions i receive the following output

Unhandled exception:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at CodePlex.TfsLibrary.PatchEngine.ApplyPatch(String directory, String patchXml, SourceItemCallback callback)
at CodePlex.CodePlexClientLibrary.ApplyPatchPresenter.ApplyPatch(String directory, String patchFilename)
at CodePlex.CodePlexClientLibrary.ApplyPatchCommand.Execute()
at CodePlex.CodePlexClientLibrary.ApplicationBase`1.Run(DependencyContainer container)
at CodePlex.CodePlexClientLibrary.ApplicationBase`1.Run()

Ive got tortoise svn and tortoise merge installed and have downloaded a clean copy of the src from this site. is this an issue with the codeplex client? Ive tried lots of different combinations with this but it's not working out. can one of you check this out please. It's a bit of a pain

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New Post: How do I apply someones patch to my copy of someones project?

BradWilson — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:20:56 GMT

Please see: http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlexClient/Wiki/View.aspx?title=HowToAcceptContributions

New Post: How do I apply someones patch to my copy of someones project?

werD420 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:07:54 GMT

Im using a project on here for a web site. i use TortoiseSVN pretty regularly for my own projects.

The project im using off of CodePlex has an error that a user has posted a patch for.
See Here: http://www.codeplex.com/aspnetxmlproviders/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=10004

you can see by reading the post that not even the author of the tool knows how to apply the patch. How do i get the data from this patch? This issue is causing all sorts of problem with my site

Unfortunately if I download the attached patch and try to apply it with Tortoise I receive [The line "index" was not found! Either this is not a diff file or the diff is empty.]

it looks like just one file has been patched as i can open it with notepad and see that only one path has been listed. Do i need to use .net to convert this stream to text? has to be easier than that.

Im listing the text of the patch below [minus the majority of the data stream]

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<patch xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.codeplex.com/schema/PatchSchema-1.0.xsd">
<update path="$/aspnetxmlproviders/XmlProfileProvider.cs" csid="16947" compression="deflate">7b0HYBxJliUmL23Ke39K9UrX4HShCIBgEyTYkEAQ7MGIzeaS7B1........</update>
</patch>

New Post: Unable to commit initial version

ianwij — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:35:41 GMT

Glad I found this thread. I have the exact same problem so it clearly hasn't been resolved.

I created a project and tried both TFS and CPC and couldn't upload source code. I've waited 12 hours and tried again. Still no luck.

I'll deleted the project, recreated it and voila, it works.

New Post: How does the client work?

BradWilson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:54:11 GMT

I was the last developer to work on the CodePlex Client, and I left CodePlex almost a year ago (shortly after CodePlex Client went v1.0).

Nobody has been actively maintaining it since then. The core API library has been updated infrequently as needed for SvnBridge. The team's source control focus has been on SvnBridge since CodePlex Client v1 shipped. I've updated the wiki home page (at your suggestion) pointing out that people should probably not be expecting further releases.

As for history, the log command might suit, though it is very limited: it only works for a single file (not folder) that exists on your local file system. It cannot make arbitrary requests and does not support folders nor recursion. This was obviously something we had planned to enhance later with fuller functionality, but never got around to for v1.

Here is an example of output from the xUnit.net project:

C:\Dev\xunit\Main> cpc log xunit.tests.msbuild
========================================================================
Log for $/xunit/Main/xunit.tests.msbuild
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r20722 | SND\BradWilson_cp | 6/29/2008 6:28 PM

Moved xunitext.nunit from Main to Samples
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r17004 | SND\BradWilson_cp | 4/23/2008 7:00 PM

Fix for issue #4335 (for xunitext.runner.msbuild.dll)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r17003 | SND\BradWilson_cp | 4/23/2008 6:40 PM

Fix for issue #4335 (for xunit.console.exe)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16515 | SND\BradWilson_cp | 4/9/2008 7:47 PM

Added several tests around ExecutorWrapper in advance of some new methods
(RunTests and EnumerateTests, which are not implemented yet). Fixed a bug
where ExecutorWrapper's constructor could throw and therefore not clean up
the AppDomain it had created.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r16382 | SND\BradWilson_cp | 4/5/2008 6:22 PM

Converted MSBUILD file to generate xUnit XML files in preparation for CCnet support
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r15895 | SND\BradWilson_cp | 3/15/2008 5:40 PM

Merged xunit and xunitext source code into this tree
========================================================================

New Post: How does the client work?

redsolo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:12:57 GMT

Thanks a lot for the thorough explaination, now I understand how the cpc goes around the workspace "feature" for the TF command line tool. Making it possible to retrieve the files without affecting anything on the server is a very nice feature of the CPC tool. The CPC tool makes it easier to help out on projects without applying for a project membership.

I am missing one crucial feature in the CPC, and that is the "history" command. Is there a reason why it was left out, or is it in the road map?

Waiting eagerly for your blog post about the anonymous feature.

New Post: How does the client work?

BradWilson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:32:47 GMT

TFS has two out-of-the-box APIs: one is the web service API, and one is the .NET wrapper that talks to this web service. These two APIs actually behave significantly differently.

The low level web service API for TFS allows you to do things like getting the content of items without having a workspace. In obvious hindsight (knowing that we've now built tfc/cpc), the low level APIs are flexible enough to allow a very disconnected, client-state oriented view of the world.

The slightly higher level .NET wrapper API doesn't allow this. It bakes in a lot of assumptions about workspaces and their relationship to your local file system that you simply cannot avoid. For this reason, we created our own high level API, one that allowed you access in a more client-state oriented manner.

Unfortunately, the TF command line tool is built on the out-of-the-box .NET wrapper API provided by the TFS team, so getting files without a workspace is impossible. A "tf get" operation is going to require you to have a workspace. If you just want a command-line alternative to tf.exe, then our tfc.exe should suit your needs.

On the second part of your question, the anonymous behavior was built by the CodePlex team, and therefore not available for Team Foundation Server by default. I'm working on a blog post about how we achieved this, and will post it to my blog soon.

New Post: How does the client work?

redsolo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:02:40 GMT

Oh, I was more wondering how the CPC can retrieve files from a (stock) TFS without creating a workspace or a work folder on the servers for every project on codeplex. Is it possible to mimic the anonymous handling that CPC does with a stock TF command line client?

New Post: How does the client work?

BradWilson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:45:44 GMT

It only needs to create a workspace for commit operations, and it creates it just before the commit then deletes it immediately after.

The CodePlex TFS servers are stock servers (using a custom project template, of course).

New Post: How does the client work?

redsolo — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:43:55 GMT

How does the cpc work without creating workspaces on the codeplex servers? Is it using one common workspace for all (wouldnt think so) or is there a tweak in the TFS implementation?

New Post: First Checkin Steps

tregoning — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:42:02 GMT

Thanks also found this very helpful.... this should be added somewhere in the official documentation..

NEW POST: path too long exception

BradWilson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:21:32 GMT

CPC is written in .NET, and thus suffers from .NET's limitations regarding total path length (maximum total path length is 260 characters).

The solution is to ensure that you do not use deeply nested folders with long names.

Also, it would appear that someone has checked in the CPC artifacts directories (_tfs), which is not correct. You should use another tool, like Team Explorer, to remove these folders from source control.

NEW POST: path too long exception

abicee — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:04:38 GMT

my platform

vista 64 sp1+visual studio 2008

partition format is ntfs.

NEW POST: path too long exception

abicee — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:00:49 GMT

my platform

vista 64 sp1+visual studio 2008

partition format is ntfs.

NEW POST: path too long exception

abicee — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:58:54 GMT

cpc checkout KeystrokeEsbNet

would report error: path too long...

NEW POST: Last change set not showing up

Bloodsplatter — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:24:37 GMT

I recently committed a change set to my project (ImageViewerCL) but it's not showing up on the Source Code tab.
I committed it with cpc.exe and if I type cpc info it says Revision 5077.
But as I said, there's no revision 5077 on the Source Code tab.

Did I do something wrong? cpc didn't report any errors while commiting.