Rename command is very slow

Rename is slow but notthat slow :) Here's what I tried:

[navigate to an empty, mapped folder]
for /l %a in (1, 1, 1000) do (echo foo > %a.txt)
tf add . /r
tf checkin . /r /i
for %a in (*) do (echo ren %a %a-ren >> test.tfc)
tf @test.tfc
tf checkin /i

The bulk rename took about 5 minutes, the checkin about 15 seconds. My guess is the perf team would consider that "good enough." We don't really anticipate bulk renames being a common operation. Nevertheless, the server rearchitecture work we're doing might improve things in the future -- I can find out what the vNext perf goals are if you like.

Hmm. I've tested some more too and run into some severe slowdowns myself. Rename perf seems to depend heavily on the # of pending changes in the workspace. You might try pending X renames, checkin, then pending the next X renames, checkin, etc. (where X is somewhere between 10-100, based on a few tests I've run) Another option if perf is important would be to create lots of workspaces and split up the work so it can be done in parallel.

Another problem is once you have 2000 pending rename files in the workspace, the Get Latest command will just hang. I'll try to use your suggestion to rename files. Thanks.

Heng-yi