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Nov 18, 2005
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Why TFS labels aren't like SourceSafe labels

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

I'm keeping my eye out for reasonable "short" blog topics as all of mine seem to be pretty long :)  There was a question today on one of our internal aliases about why labels in TFS don't show up in the history display the way they do in SourceSafe.  The originator was under the impression that labels were not available in the UI.  H...

Nov 13, 2005
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A Branching and Merging Primer

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Hmm, OK I guess I jumped too quickly into using unfamiliar terminology.  Let me step back and define some of the concepts/terms a little more and then hopefully that last post will make more sense. The Source Tree Let’s start with what the source tree in the Developer Division looks like.  It has the following top level folders (not...

Nov 12, 2005
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Branch structure in Developer Division at Microsoft

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

I've seen a lot of people looking for more information on Team Project organization and branching.  The Version Control PMs are putting together some good whitepapers on it.  Recently, however, there have been some questions about how we do branching at Microsoft so I figured I'd wade into that in my blog.  I'm most familiar with wha...