Naming Syntax, Conventions, and Limitations

Team Foundation version control has the following naming syntax, conventions, and limitations:

Names lengths:

• Check-in note names can be up to 64 characters long.

• Check-in policy names can be up to 256 characters long.

• Label names can be up to 64 characters long.

• Workspace names can be up to 64 characters long.

• Shelveset names can be up to 64 characters long.

Comment lengths:

• Check-in comments can be up to 2GB.

• Check-in note values can be up to 2GB.

• Label comments can be up to 2048 characters long.

• Shelveset comments can be up to 2048 characters long.

• Workspace comments can be up to 2048 characters long.

Files and Paths:

• Server paths can be up to 259 characters.

• Local file paths fall within Windows limits of 259 characters long (including the file name), and 248 for a directory.

• Files in the Team Foundation version control server have no size limit.

• The total size of content in the Team Foundation version control server has no limit.

Names:

Most names in Team Foundation version control cannot begin or end with spaces or tabs. Any character can be used for names or labels, except the following:

• Angle brackets (< >).

• Colon (:).

• Asterisk (*).

• Forward (/) and backward slash (\).

• Question mark (?).

• Quotation mark (").

• Pipe (|).

• A dollar sign ($) cannot be the first character in a file name.

• Label names cannot contain (@).

• Workspace and shelveset names cannot contain (;).

Concepts