Why doesn't TFS get latest get the latest?

Question

Why Why WHY doesn\'t TFS\'s get latest work consistently?

You would have thought that feature would have been tested thoroughly.

What I have to do is, get sp

Answer 1

just want to add TFS MSBuild does not support special characters on folders i.e. "@"

i had experienced in the past where one of our project folders named as External@Project1

we created a TFS Build definition to run a custom msbuild file then the workspace folder is not getting any contents at the External@Project1 folder during workspace get latest. It seems that tfs get is failing but does not show any error.

after some trial and error and renaming the folder to _Project1. voila we got files on the the folder (_Project1).