To make outgoing change sets available to the rest of your
team, deliver them.
About this task
As you check in changes to a component, change sets accumulate
in the component's
Outgoing folder. This folder
is visible in the
Pending Changes view. The message
area of the
Pending Changes view toolbar indicates
how many change sets are pending and whether they are outgoing or
incoming. There are several ways to deliver change sets:
- To deliver all outgoing change sets, click the
icon in the Pending Changes view
toolbar.
- To create a change set from unresolved changes and then deliver
it, right-click the Unresolved folder or a
project in it and click Check in and deliver.
(If you have enabled automatic check-in, you cannot use Check
in and deliver.)
To deliver
an individual change set:
- In the Pending Changes view, navigate
to the Outgoing folder of the component that
contains the change set.
- To include a comment, right-click the change set and click Edit
Comment. Many team processes require a change
set to include a comment, an association with a work item, or both
before you can deliver it.
- To specify a non-default flow target before you deliver
changes, open the Pending Changes view, right-click
the repository workspace, and click Change Flow Target.
Select from the list of targets you added to your repository workspace,
or enter a text string to search for another stream or workspace. For more information, see Understanding and modifying change flow.
- Right-click the change set and click Deliver. If you are delivering to a non-default flow target, you are
prompted to confirm.
Results
The outgoing change sets are automatically marked complete
if they were not already completed, and then delivered to the flow
target(s) of your workspace.
Example
The
Pending Changes view has three modes
to facilitate check-in and delivery. Click the drop-down menu for
the

icon in the
Pending Changes view
toolbar to see the options.
- Show my pending work: Shows all of your
local changes and outgoing change sets across components. Change sets
are grouped by work item so that you can suspend or deliver them collectively.
This mode is useful when you are frequently working in multiple components.
- Show my suspended change sets: Shows only
change sets that you have suspended.
- Show selected items: Shows only the items
that you have selected from one of the other modes.