Performing code review of tasks spanning several change sets
How do I get a consolidated view of the changes made in relation to a task or story when these are distributed against change sets?
Opening the change sets one by one in the change explorer gives me all changes in an exploded view, where I really just need a list of changes files and the option to compare the before and after versions.
regards
/anders
Accepted answer
The following blog post shows how to code review multiple change sets using the Change Summary view: Reviewing Code Changes with RTC
In RTC 6.0.1 a Code Review feature was added. This feature also supports reviewing multiple change sets, and offers a comparison of each file which aggregates the changes (shows the 'net effect').
See the following links on Code Review:
RTC 6.0.1 New & Noteworthy - Code Review
Using Code Review, Part 1
Using Code Review, Part 2
Comments
Note: All the general quality/code review documentation suggest that it is bad practice and error prone to conduct code reviews of such scale. This is why the out of the box RTC Code Review is work item-centric (giving the reviewer a smaller set of code to review (ideally), and a better context of what defect/enhancement they are reviewing). To do what you are asking however, If you were to compare the 2 releases (snapshots) then you could get a list of 'all' the change sets that went into the newer release in the Change Summary view in Eclipse, you could go through the file changes there for the Code Review, or you could try attaching them all to a work item to have them show up in the web based Code Review tool (no guarantee on how well that user experience would be, as it was never tested to that scale).
2 other answers
Multi-select also applies to change sets in Pending Changes if you want to open them in Change Explorer from there.