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Comments - Do you enforce comments with check-ins?

Last updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] 7 months ago.See history

Team Foundation Server is great, and one of its neat features is enforcing comments when checking in code. Without comments, some of the other built in features like History become redundant without comments.

You should have good comments... if you are struggling use Excuses For Lazy Coders :)

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Figure: Bad Example: No Comments against the check-ins we don’t know what changes were made in each revision

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Figure: Good Example: Now we can pin point which revision a particular change has been made

In Visual Studio 2013, to enforce this behaviour, you will need to:

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Figure: Go to Team Explorer | Source Control

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Figure: Then Check-in Policy | Add

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Figure: Then select Changeset Comments Policy and OK

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Figure: Now you have the Changeset Comments Policy applied to your Team Project

Now the next time someone checks-in some code, they are forced to enter a comment.

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