title: force visual studio to auto checkout a file (appdef.xml)
body: <p>I could not find any post for this..</p>
  <p>We have Azure DevOps for our solutions, and we use Visual Studio Community 2019. v 16.8.4
  I, and others keep forgetting to checkout and increment a file name appdef.xml, before we add files to Git.</p>
  <p>How can I make it always be checked out automatically as soon as we check out any other file in a solution, or even better if possible to auto increment the last number in this tag? Is this a Git feature maybe?</p>
  <p><code>&lt;version&gt;1.0.1.3&lt;/version&gt;</code></p>
  <p>If this is a duplicate post, please just close it, and point me in the right direction </p>
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  <li>When I say checkout, I mean &quot;Changes&quot; as in provided pic.</li>
  </ul>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8meUG.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8meUG.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>