Informational Commands

Dir Command

Displays a list of the files and folders in the Team Foundation version control server directory.

Permission Command

Displays information about the users and groups of users who are allowed to perform actions against an item or set of items in the Team Foundation version control server.

Status Command

Displays information about pending changes to items in one or more workspaces.

Branches Command

Displays the branch history of a specified file or folder.

Changeset Command

Displays information about and enables you to make changes to the attributes, that are associated with a changeset, such as comments and check-in notes.

Labels Command

Displays the list of labels in the Team Foundation version control server.

LocalVersions Command

Displays the version of one or more items in a workspace.

Properties Command

Displays information about a version-controlled file or folder including path, local version, size, file type, and lock status.

Shelvesets Command

Displays information about a set of shelved changes. You can also use this command to compare a shelved revision to its base shelveset version without unshelving the item into your workspace.

Help Command (Team Foundation Version Control)

Displays detailed information about a Team Foundation version control command.

Difference Command

Compares and, if possible, displays differences between two files or two folders.

Workspaces Command

Displays information about all workspaces in the system.

Workfold Command

Creates, modifies, or displays information about the mappings between your workspace folders and the Team Foundation version control server folders to which they correspond.

You can obtain information about version-controlled items indirectly, by combining common commands with informational options.

tf get /preview

You can use the /preview option to issue the Get command without making updates to the local workspace in order to see what would happen if you were to perform an actual get.

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