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In Team Foundation Server 2008, there doesn’t seem an easy way to simply perform a rollback on a comitted changeset. Well, that is until you discover the power of the updated Team Foundation Server Power Toys.

Rollback command

Before rolling back a changeset, the local workspace must have no pending changes. After issuing the rollback command, tfpt rollback a dialog will appear asking whether you want the local workspace brought up to date with the repository. After affirming the dialog, a get command will be issued for your workspace and updated with the latest changes.

After the get operation completed successfully, another dialog will appear asking you to identify the changeset that you want to rollback. Note: Make sure that you have the correct changeset before continuing.

Select the files that you want to rollback in the changeset and click on “Roll Back”. After the rollback completed, you might have to resolve some conflicting changes. Now that the rollback is complete, you will still need to commit the new changeset, which is the latest code, without the changeset that was rolled back.

If you want to skip all of the GUI stuff, then you can simply execute the rollback command this way: tfpt rollback /changeset:4018.