Comments on TeamCity Dev Blog: TeamCity 4.0.2 is out

Steve,Agent-side checkout affects only the way sou...

2009-02-05T19:18:00.000+03:00

Steve,

Agent-side checkout affects only the way sources are retrieved for the build. Changes checking is always done from TeamCity server.

With server-side checkout TeamCity gets the sources (changes to be applied) on the server-side and passes them to the agent. With agent-side checkout sources are retrieved by the agent itself.

We have server-side checkout for all version controls that are supported and agent-side was available for SVN and CVS for quite a while already. Now TFS has joined the set.

Agent-side TFS checkout requires Team Explorer to be available on the agent and a TFS workspace is created for each checkout location.
On the other hand it more reliable and reduces TeamCity server load.

Can you explain more about the TFS agent-checkout ...

2009-02-05T17:33:00.000+03:00

Can you explain more about the TFS agent-checkout capability?

Does this change the way that TeamCity checks for changes, or the way the build agent gets the latest changes or something else?

Thanks for noting (we made a typo in the file name...

2009-02-05T12:54:00.000+03:00

Thanks for noting (we made a typo in the file name)

Fixed.

The link to the war for 4.0.2 is returning 404

2009-02-04T17:58:00.000+03:00

The link to the war for 4.0.2 is returning 404