Cacher is the code snippet organizer for pro developers

Move Shelveset to a Different Branch in TFS
Want to move a shelveset to a different branch? It’s more painful than I realised, but not to worry, here’s exactly what you need to do.

Step 1: Preparation

Make sure your source branch and target branch are both up to date by running Get Latest Changes. If you don’t you may receive the error:

“Unable to determine the workspace.”

Make sure you’ve created your shelveset and there are no pending changes for either branch. This includes the changes you just shelved! If you don’t you may receive the error:

“An item with the same key has already been added”

Step 2: Open Command Prompt

if you cant find it please download it here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TFSPowerToolsTeam.MicrosoftVisualStudioTeamFoundationServer2015Power

Open up a visual studio command prompt. I used “VS2013 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt”, very inconveniently located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\Shortcuts.

Make sure you navigate to the root of (or anywhere inside) your project, or you might see this friendly guy again: “Unable to determine the workspace.”

Empty Command Prompt
Figure: Command prompt open and navigated to project

Step 3: Run this Command

Now run the following Command: tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"$/ProjectName/Branch" /target:"$/ProjectName/Targetbranch" "My Shelveset Name"

Command Prompt with Command
Figure: Running the command using my project’s values

Step 4: Follow the Prompts

Now that you’ve run the command, a couple of prompts will appear. They should be quite straight forward.

First Prompt
Figure: The first prompt. I just clicked “Unshelv”.

Second Prompt
Figure: The second prompt. Here I clicked “Auto-merg” and then once completed, “Close”.

After you’ve closed the final prompt, your original command window should look something like this:

Command Complete
Figure: You’re all done. Close this when you’re ready.