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Summary

The list-remote-branches command helps you find the branches to clone of a TFS server.

Synopsis

Usage: git tfs list-remote-branches tfs-url-or-instance-name
       git tfs list-remote-branches http://myTfsServer:8080/tfs/TfsRepository

  -h, -H, --help
  -V, --version
  -d, --debug                Show debug output about everything git-tfs does
  -u, --username=VALUE       TFS username
  -p, --password=VALUE       TFS password

Prerequisite

To be able to return the list of the existing branches, all your source code folders corresponding to branches should be converted into branches (a notion introduced by TFS2010).

If none of your branches are converted into branch in your TFS server, the command will return the message :

No TFS branches were found!

To change that, you should :

  • Open 'Source Control Explorer'
  • For each folder corresponding to a branch, right click on your source folder and select 'Branching and Merging' > 'Convert to branch'.

Examples

To display all the remotes of a TFS server, do this:

git tfs list-remote-branches http://tfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

Output

TFS branches that could be cloned :

 $/project/trunk [*]
 |
 +- $/project/branch1
 |
 +- $/project/branch2
 |
 +- $/project/branch3
	|
	+- $/project/branch3-1
	
Cloning root branches (marked by [*]) is recommended!

Then you can use the clone command with the good remote branch of your choice! However, it is recommended to clone the root branch and then use the branch command to manage branches.

Authentication

If the TFS server needs an authentication, you could use the --username and --password parameters. If you don't specify this information, you will be prompted to enter them. This information is not stored by git-tfs.

git tfs list-remote-branches http://tfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection -u=DISSRVTFS03\peter.pan -p=wendy

See also