I have found a few gotchas with TFS that make it a little different than other CVCS.
- TFS is very difficult to use outside of Visual Studio. Even diffing versions is done inside VS. Personally I only like to use VS for writing code.
- We have had lots of issues with dll's and other binary files not updating to the latest version.
- TFS makes all your files under version control read-only. This makes modifying files outside of VS very painful. In fact, this is still causing issues with out Silverlight projects in our Continuous Integration build in TFS.
- The command line tool for TFS is not easy to use from the command line. (Personally, I like to use the command line)
Background:
My company switched from SVN and TFS and I use Mercurial/Git for my side projects. I also followed this blog about using Mercurial with TFS and it has made my work with TFS much more enjoyable.
