I'm using the (currently free) hosted TFS via VisualStudio.com and Visual Studio 2012.
I have an XML file, that gets edited via a tool that saves the changes in a minimized format (there is no option to make it spit out human readable XML).
This is easily corrected within Visual Studio with CTRL+E, D (reformat document) -- but sometimes people forget to do this before checking it in (which makes merges, harder, and makes the file less readable.)
My question is this: Is there a way to auto-re-format this file on check-in? Failing that, is there a way to run a (powershell?) script (server- or client-side -- but ideally serverside) in response to the user checking in a file?
I did some searching and found that someone had mentioned you could write a check-in policy class library and misuse it to modify the files at validation time (which, even though it's a hack, it sounds great!) -- but that it has to be installed on each individual client machine via a registry mod -- which sounds like a total deployment nightmare to me. I want the action to just automatically happen without everyone having to install a bunch of crap -- or failing that -- for the installation of said crap to happen automatically.
