TFS rentention policy always deletes the latest build output

Question

Within one of our customers, we have developed a custom build template (based on the default build template from tfs 2010).

What we experience is that often the drop output is deleted from the latest build although the retention policy is set to keep the latest 10 builds. When we set the retention policy on 'Keep all', the drop output is kept.

My questions:-

- who (process/service) is handling the retention policy? Is this a part of the build workflow?

- is the name of our build definition used in this algoritm ?

- is there some lecture which explains in detail how this is implemented in TFS 2010?

Answer 1

Hi Lieven, 

 

Thanks for your post.

 

·         I am currently looking into this issue and will give you an update as soon as possible.

 

If you have any further research of this issue, please share your experience here.  

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John Qiao [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hi Liven,

Can you please check the "What to delete" column on your case?  What is the setting when you set "keep the latest 10 builds"?

Thanks!

 

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Sophia Lu [MSFT]

Answer 3

Yes, this problem occurs only when we specify a number of builds. In our case is was the latest 5 builds...

What to Delete = All

Answer 4

Hi Liven,

Please refer another post.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/tfsbuild/thread/c7dce33d-68a8-4851-ace3-80963f3f029c

Thanks!

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Sophia Lu [MSFT]

Answer 5

Dear Sophia,

this give not an answer to my inital question.

If we specify 'Keep latest 10 builds', we encounter that the running build (the 11th build) deletes the build output of the 11th build... So my initial question was: how does the build retention policy determine if a build is in scope or not for deletion? Based on the name, submit time of other meta fields?

Best regards,

Lieven