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    Build a utility to interact with TFS.

    Review Request #8303 — Created July 20, 2016 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded

    Information

    rb-tfs
    master
    a3aeb6e...

    Reviewers

    The "tf" command that ships with Team Explorer Everywhere is pretty good, but
    it is missing some functionality that we'd like. Most notably, there's no way
    to get the content of files within a shelveset without unshelving it. That
    means that in order to be able to post shelvesets, we need our own adapter.
    This change is the beginnings of such an adapter, using the TFS SDK for Java.

    Because we have such an adapter now, we can make it do exactly what we need for
    interacting with TFS, which dramatically reduces the number of times it needs
    to be called. This is good because each time it is called, we have to spin up
    the whole JRE.

    I've written this using a modular command format with individual commands for
    each of the steps we have. These steps are:

    • Verify the workspace and get the URL of the collection.
    • Parse a given revision spec (with zero, one, or two "revisions" specified).
      This converts those revisions into either numeric changesets or special
      internal keys representing either the working copy or a shelveset.
    • Do a diff based on the parsed revisions. Diffs are currently implemented for
      the working directory and shelvesets. I haven't yet implemented diffs for
      committed revisions, because that's somewhat more complex, but the existing
      tf.cmd-based implementation doesn't do it either.

    This does not yet handle rbtools' -I and -X flags.

    Used this to post pending and shelved changes.