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TF.exe

tf.exe is the Team Foundation Version Control Tool
C:\> tf /?

Microsoft (R) TF - Team Foundation Version Control Tool, Version 16.167.30431.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Type tf vc help for a list of supported Version Control commands.
Type tf git help for a list of supported Git commands.
Type tf settings help for a list of supported server settings commands.

tf vc help

This is the slightly edited result of tf vc help:
tf vc add Adds new files and folders from a local file system location to Team Foundation version control.
tf vc branch Copies an item or set of items, including metadata and version control history, from one location to another on the Team Foundation version control server and in the workspace.
tf vc branches Displays the history of a branch for a specified file or folder.
tf vc changeset Displays information about a changeset and lets you change the associated attributes, such as comments and check-in notes.
tf vc checkin Commits pending changes in the current workspace to Team Foundation version control.
tf vc checkout Makes the local file writable and changes its pending Change status to edit in the workspace. edit is an alias for the Checkout command. Compare with tf vc get.
tf vc certificates Configures how client authentication certificates are used when connecting to Azure DevOps through a secure connection.
tf vc configure Enables an administrator to view and change the following configuration settings for a team project in the Source Control Settings dialog box: Check-out settings, Check-in policies and Check-in notes
tf vc delete Removes files and folders from Team Foundation version control and deletes them from the disk.
tf vc destroy Destroys, or permanently deletes, version-controlled files from Team Foundation version control.
tf vc diff Compares, and if it is possible, displays differences between two files, files in two folders, or a shelveset and a local or server file.
tf vc dir Displays all or part of the contents of Team Foundation version control.
tf vc edit An alias for tf vc checkout
tf vc folderdiff Display a visual representation of the differences between files in two server folders, in a server folder and a local folder, or in two local folders.
tf vc get Retrieves a read-only copy of a file from Azure DevOps Server to the workspace and creates folders on disk to contain it. In order to get an editable version of files, tf vc checkout is needed.
tf vc history Displays the revision history for one or more files and folders.
tf vc info Displays information about items under version control.
tf vc label Attaches a label to or removes a label from a version of a file or folder in Team Foundation version control.
tf vc labels Displays the list of labels in Team Foundation version control.
tf vc localversions Displays the version of one or more items in a workspace.
tf vc lock Locks or unlocks a file or folder to deny or restore the permissions of users to check out an item for edit into a different workspace or to check in pending changes to an item from a different workspace.
tf vc merge Applies changes from one branch into another.
tf vc merges Displays detailed information about past merges between the specified source and destination branches.
tf vc msdn Launches the Microsoft Document Explorer to the documentation page for the command.
tf vc permission Modifies the user access control list (ACL) and displays authorization settings for an item under version control.
tf vc property Displays and pends changes on properties associated with items under version control.
tf vc reconcile Compares the current state of the workspace on disk with the server's view, either to clean the workspace or to promote unpended local changes.
tf vc rename Changes the name or the path of a file or folder (so it can be used to move a file to a different location). An alias for rename is move.
tf vc resolve Resolves conflicts between changed items in your workspace and the latest or destination versions of items on the server.
tf vc resolvePath Resolves a server path to a local path in your workspace.
tf vc rollback Rolls back the changes in a single or a range of changesets.
tf vc shelve Stores a set of pending changes, together with pending check-in notes, a comment, and a list of associated work items in Azure DevOps Server without actually checking them into the version control server.
tf vc shelvesets Displays information about a set of shelved changes.
tf vc status Displays information about pending changes to items in one or more workspaces. (Should probably be used with the /recursive option: tf vc status /recursive .)
tf vc undelete Restores items that were previously deleted.
tf vc undo Removes pending changes from a workspace.
tf vc unlabel Removes an item from an existing label in Team Foundation version control.
tf vc unshelve Restores shelved file revisions, check-in notes, comments, and work item associations to the current workspace or removes an existing shelveset from the server.
tf vc view Retrieves a specific version of a file to a temporary folder on your computer and displays it.
tf vc workfold Creates, modifies, or displays information about the mappings between your workspace folders and the Team Foundation version control folders.
tf vc workspace Creates, deletes, displays, or modifies properties and mappings associated with a workspace.
tf vc workspaces Displays information about workspaces in the system and updates cached information about a user name or computer name change on Azure DevOps Server.

tf git help

tf git view Retrieves the file from a Git repository to a temporary location on your computer and displays it.
tf git permission Modifies the user access control list (ACL) and displays authorization settings for a Git repository or branch within a Git repository.

tf settings help

tf settings connections Displays information about the registered Team Foundation connections in the system, as well as perform actions to remove a connection and switch the authenticated user of a connection.
tf settings proxy Configures the proxy setting automatically or manually. You can also use the proxy command to add, delete, and list proxy server records.

Command line option -noprompt

The following command opens the result in a GUI Window.
tf vc folderdiff .
Using -noprompt prints the result to the console:
tf vc folderdiff . -nopropmt

Misc

The tx.exe binary is not found in a fixed location for %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and later versinos.

TODO

The following command prints the result to the console. But the text is rather hard to read:
tf vc status /recursive .
Detailed format
tf vc status /recursive /format:detailed .

See also

The path to TF.exe is stored in %DevEnvDir%\srcsrv.ini.
%DevEnvDir%\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer
Team Foundation

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