I'm trying to use a command file to perform some tasks with TF.exe. Since I want this operation to be interactive I'm trying to use the "setnoprompt false" command listed in the documentation for TF, but when I run my command file I receieve the error "Unrecognized command: setnoprompt".

This is the content of my command file:

setnoprompt false
merge /recursive /version:C288~C288 $/Test/Dev $/Test/Branch1

When executed the setnoprompt command generates the error mentioned above and the merge command executes without displaying any dialogs (which I don't want since it generates conflicts that needs to be resolved)

What am I doing wrong here??

Hello,

unfortunately setnoprompt was removed from TFS RTM and documentation wasn't updated then. There is no way to make commands pop up the dialogs when they are run in tf @ mode. In the future release we plan to add /prompt option then would let you do it.

Hi Michal, thanks for your reply, altough it was not what I was hoping for...

If I explain my problem in a bit more detail the perhaps you could suggest an alternative solution (altough I'm beginning to suspect that what I want to do isn't possible..)

I'm writing a custom tool for our developers to ease the integration of changes into various branches, as a part of this I will have to do a lot of merges, to avoid having to implement all the conflict resolving logic myself I planned to just call tf.exe and let it deal with it. Now, to keep a log of things I would like to redirect the output from tf.exe to my application, unfortunately it seems that tf detects this and thinks it's running in non-interactive mode - which means no dialogs and my plan for dealing with merge conflicts fails miserably...

So the question is: Is it possible in any way to redirect the output from tf.exe and still have the resolve dialogs popup?

Well, then I have it confirmed anyway.

For anyone else having similar problems, my backup solution will probably be to run the merge silent with redirection (to be able to capture any error messages etc.) and then do an interactive tf resolve before checkin to resolve all conflicts.

Thanks for the help.