Visual Studio TFS shows unchanged files in the list of pending changes

Question

I see a file in pending changes window. I try to compare it with latest version and I get an a message \'The files are identical\' If the files are identical why is this fi

Answer 1

This is normal if a file becomes automatically checked out due to a change, and if ultimately the contents of the file are changed back to it's original state. At that point you would see the message about identical contents upon comparison.

This blog entry describes a not-so intuitive way of dealing with this; and in the comments there is an even better suggestion on dealing with it through the command line via TFS power tools.

TFS pending changes ignoring identical files...