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What's in a name - redux

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A while back, I asked what people wanted us to call our command line application. Today, we're using "h.exe" as a placeholder. Well, I'm happy to announce we've reached a decision and are now planning to call it "tf.exe", as in "**T**eam **F**oundation".

So, everywhere you've seen "h checkin" or "h delete" in our blogs, we'll start using "tf checkin", "tf delete", etc. 

This particular issue generated quite a bit of feedback, so I'm naturally interested in how people like this name.

Also, do you think you'll use the command line interface or the Visual Studio integration more? Will you exclusively use one or the other? Some combination of both?

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  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2004
    I'll use the VS integration when I'm working manually, but the commandline interface has to be good because I script stuff a lot.

    tf is fine by me, FWIW.
  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2004
    I'm certainly glad that you guys chose a short name. Not everyone uses an IDE for everything, and the lack of extra keystrokes will be appreciated.
  • Anonymous
    September 28, 2004
    I know it's been decided, but...

    tf.exe is fine, but I think tfc.exe (for TF Client), which was mentioned in the comments to the original post, is better.

    It's only one more letter, it's correspondigly more descriptive, and it leaves tfs.exe (for TF Server) available for the future.
  • Anonymous
    October 02, 2004
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