Forbidden Patterns Check-In Policy in TFS 2010

Question

I\'ve been trying to use the Forbidden Patterns part of the TFS 2010 Power Tools and I\'m just not understanding something - I simply cannot get anything to change as I try

Answer 1

Here's a set of expressions we use that work. We have the December 2011 Team Foundation Power Tools installed, which is where the Forbidden Patterns Policy feature comes from, not from a base TFS 2010 install.

.*/[Bb]in/.*

.*/[Pp]ackages/.*

.*/[Oo]bj/.*

.*/_[Rr]eshar[Pp]er./.*

\.((?i)suo$)

\.((?i)user$)

thumbs\.db

I also found another site that has a good write-up with example patterns.

Answer 2

After playing around for a while I found a working solution for excluding *.config files (derived from the following blog link text)

^(.+\.config$)

Please don't ask me why it's the way it is, I don't really get it myself, especially the part with '$)' (')$' does not work!)