Props to Steve Jobs for finally calling a spade a spade and dismissing DRM as an ineffective solution to rights management. I'm all for protection of author/artist rights but DRM just isn't getting the job done. DRM is simply the major record/movie houses trying to solve the problem with technology. We see this all the time in business. It's easy to treat everything like a nail if all you have is a hammer. Get creative. Come up with a solution that works-hint: it's not technology.
Rhut roe, Raggie. You just checked in a merge operation affecting 100's of files in TFS against the wrong branch. Ooops. Well, you can simply roll it back, right? Select the folder in Source Control Explorer and...hey, where's the Rollback? Rollback isn't supported in TFS natively. However, it is supported within the Power Tools leveraging the command-line TFPT.exe utility. It's fairly straightforward to revert back to a previous version--with one caveot. First, download and install the Team Foundation Power Tools 2008 on your workstation. Before proceeding, let's create a workspace dedicated to the rollback. To "true up" the workspace, the rollback operation will peform a Get Latest for every file in your current workspace. This can consume hours (and many GB) with a broad workspace mapping. To work around this, I create a temporary workspace targeted at just the area of source I need to roll back. So let's drill down on our scenario... I'm worki...
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