MAF/TFS partial deploys (local)

I recently had a lot of trouble with my workspace (I'm using Intellij) which involved doing lots of builds of the app to try and get it correctly set up again. Each build was taking long enough for me to go out and have a cigarette, get a coffee, do the crossword, have a chat... you get the picture.

Plus I found that a lone icon from insignis help directory (castillayleon) was getting replicated in about five different places!

Finally I locally deleted everything under WEB-INF that didn't pertain to my brand (WLUK) and now the app is built almost before I've finished clicking the mouse button.

This is terrific for me, and it got me wondering if there were some way we could have local build files (just as we have local test properties files) so that we only needed to check out WebContent required for our specific brand and build that.

Sometimes, fetching the latest code from TFS, I'm waiting a long time for a bunch of stuff to come down for Spain, China, Argentina or somewhere, and there haven't been any changes to WLUK WebContent at all. Conversely, I'm quite sure there are days where WLUK have checked in a lot of code, and someone in Spain, China, Argentina or somewhere is haplessly waiting for our code to come down to them.

It would speed up development no end, for all of us, if we only needed to get the web content for our own brands. Does anyone have any ideas how we could do this?

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Martin Newstead

Now that you know which directories you need can you not just do the 'get latest' on those ones ? There is an ant interface to TFS (http://labs.teamprise.com/build/ant.html) which wrap the tfs command line tools so perhaps you could create a 'WLUK-Get-Latest' task to do it all for you.

Kate Percival

Hmm, I'll check it out - not sure how well it might interface with the (rather rubbish) TFS plugin for Intellij, but it's a good suggestion - thanks!

Kate Percival

For all those Intellij users out there, I discovered if you right click on a folder in the Project view (e.g. a folder containing a brand that is irrelevant to you), then down near the bottom you can Mark Directory As/Excluded.

This will prevent it from showing in the Project view (useful if you're working on WLUK and don't want to see all the Spanish/Argentinian brands). It doesn't necessarily prevent updates to that directory being fetched when you update, but at least you don't have so much going on in the project view.

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