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dhundley's avatar
dhundley
Regular Contributor
8 months ago

Unbinding a project suite from source control

I have an automation project suite that is connected to Azure Devops. there are several of those test cases that i would like to convert to manual testing to run only on my workstation so i copied th...
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    rraghvani
    8 months ago

    I'm not sure what source control you are using, but you need to use the application as opposed to the source control plugin.

    I use Team Foundation Version Control Plugin, however I don't use this within TC. I use Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2019, to perform the necessary check-in/out etc, and also remove mapping (plus it's a lot quicker).

    Remove Mapping

     

     

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    dhundley
    8 months ago

    i found an article on StackOverflow that suggested using the TortoiseGit Export option from the context menu. This sends it to a zip file and then when i extracted from the zip file it was free of any source control. Thanks for your help

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MW_Didata
Regular Contributor

If its a copy of the project you can also remove the .git folder inside your copied projectsuite folder.

git will no longer track any files or changes to said files within the copied project.

The little checkboxes will be gone and the commit/ pull/ push buttons will be grayed out:

 

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dhundley
Regular Contributor
8 months ago

that probably would have been easier than the way i ended up doing it using the Export option. thanks!