I have 34 word templates in TFS and I'm suing VS2012. Only 32 have been modified and saved under a change set. I wanted to just extract those modified by that change set. I made sure my mapped folder was empty before I started. I used Advanced/Get Specific and then did a get using the changeset number However, all 34 templates were downloaded into my folder. The changeset get seems to get all files modified before and up to the change set I requested. In my case I can pick out the 2 files and remove them. But if I had hundreds of files spread over a dozen folder it would be a nightmare. Is there a way to get only those files modified by a specific changeset files ?
"Get Specific" means getting all the files as how they were at the time when ChangeSet was created. It doesn't mean getting only changed files.
Since you are using VS 2012, you could use Team Foundation Power Tools' tfpt GetCS command:
The GetCS tool retrieves all items listed in a changeset for a given changeset version.
This is useful when a co-worker checks in a change that you need to have in your workspace, but you cannot upgrade your entire workspace to the latest version. Use the GetCS tool to get just the items affected by your co-worker’s changeset. You can do this without inspecting the changeset to manually list the changed files when using a getcs command.
There is no graphical user interface for the GetCS tool. To invoke the GetCS, type the following command. The parameter changesetnum specifies the changeset number.
tfpt GetCS /changeset:changesetnum