How can i update the TFS workarea in local machine only updated checked-ins files\folders

Question

For TFS, how can I update my workarea of new check-ins file or folder only. When I'm giving the command tf get WORKAREA LOCATION , it is showing All the files/folders are up to date. But all new check-ins files/folders are not up to date, actually. When I'm running the command tf get WORKAREA LOCATION /recursive /force the get is showing:

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Which means updating each files and folder which is also not new which takes more time to update. So is there ant way to update only new files/folders only.

Answer 1

Running tf get from a directory in your workspace will update all out-of-date sources. Passing the /force parameter will cause all files to be retrieved rather than just those that are out of date.

If you only want files beneath a particular particular path, you can specify an itemspec . The command line would look like this:

tf get $/project/folder/subfolder /recursive