Properties Command
Displays information about items under version control.
Required Permissions
To use the properties command, you must have the Read permission set to Allow for all specified files and folders. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.
tf properties [/collection:TeamProjectCollectionUrl] [/recursive] [/login:username,[password]]
itemspec [/version:versionspec] [/workspace]
Parameters
Argument |
Description |
|---|---|
TeamProjectCollectionUrl |
The URL of the team project collection that contains the items for which you want to display properties (for example, http://myserver:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection). |
Itemspec |
Identifies the files and folders that are specified for property retrieval. For more information about how Visual Studio Team Foundation Server parses itemspecs to determine which items are within scope, see Command-Line Options. .gif "Note") Note
You can specify more than one Itemspec argument.
|
Versionspec |
Provides a value such as C3 for the /version option. For more information about how Team Foundation Server parses a version specification to determine which items are within its scope, see Command-Line Syntax (Version Control). |
username |
Provides a value to the /login option. You can specify a username value as either Domain\UserName or UserName. |
Option |
Description |
|---|---|
/recursive |
Displays all files and subfolders of a folder. |
/version |
Specifies the version of the file to open for viewing the properties on. |
/workspace |
Indicates the workspace to be used when displaying the "local" properties (such as location on disk). |
/collection |
Specifies the team project collection. |
/login |
Specifies the user name and password to authenticate the user with Team Foundation Server. |
Remarks
The properties command displays several pieces of information about a version-controlled item. Local and server information is listed separately.
Property Name |
Description |
|---|---|
Local path |
Indicates the local path of the workspace folder for the specified item. |
Changeset |
Indicates the version number of the file or folder that was last retrieved to the current workspace using the Get Command. |
Change |
Indicates where a change is pending. |
Type |
Indicates the item type, for example file. |
Server path |
Indicates the full path of the item on the version control server. |
Changeset |
Indicates the version number of the item. |
Deletion ID |
If the item is deleted, the deletion identification; otherwise 0. |
Lock |
Indicates the type of lock.
|
Lock Owner |
Indicates the person who set a check-in lock. |
Last modified |
Indicates the date and time stamp for when the item was last modified. |
Type |
Indicates the item type, for example file. |
File Type |
Displays the file type encoding. For example, Windows-1252. |
Size |
Indicates the size of the file in bytes. |
For links to other Team Foundation commands that describe the items on the server and the workspaces that map to the server, see Informational Commands.
For more information on how to find the tf command-line utility, see Tf Command-Line Utility Commands.
Examples
The following example displays properties information about the file 314.cs.
c:\projects>tf properties 314.cs
The following example displays the properties of the working folder c:\projects\objects.
c:\projects>tf properties objects
See Also
Tasks
View Version Control File and Folder Properties
Reference
Command-Line Syntax (Version Control)