Check-in Policies Pack Update

Hi, I just wanted to give you guys an update on our check-in policies pack. After a lot of feedback we decided to do a small release-out of band- of new check in policies. The pack will hopefully contain four policies and we will also distribute the source code so you can use it as a reference.

Our current plan is to include:

Check-in policy granularity: there is one already in Code Gallery and what we will do is package this, change some of the UI and take out some of the complexity

Work-Item Associations: This is a very cool one that I hope many of you will find useful. You get to specify a query and if the associated work items by the developer are not part of the query results the check-in is blocked. This is very useful when it comes to making sure that check-ins are always associated with approved bugs.

Banned files: this policy allows you to specify a file extension or a regular expression in order to keep files that you don’t want out of version control. This is usually used for dll’s, build artifacts, or some website files that are automatically generated.

Check-in Comments: this policy gets shipped as part of the SDK. It looks at the check-in comments and makes sure it is not blank.

Expect more news over the coming month. Any feedback is welcomed.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 08, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 03, 2007
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