{"id":2623,"date":"2007-03-21T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2007\/03\/21\/guidance-on-using-branches-in-tfs-version-control\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T13:46:36","slug":"guidance-on-using-branches-in-tfs-version-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/guidance-on-using-branches-in-tfs-version-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidance on using branches in TFS version control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/\">Jeff Beehler<\/a> announced the initial release of guidance on using branching and merging with your development process with TFS.&nbsp; This has been a pretty popular request from folks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2007\/03\/21\/branching-guidance-now-available.aspx\">Branching guidance now available<\/a><\/h3>\n<p> I&#8217;m extremely excited to announce the availability of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeplex.com\/BranchingGuidance\">Branching guidance<\/a> for Team Foundation Server.&nbsp; This was a collaborative effort between the TFS product team and members of our &#8220;Ranger&#8221; program who are focused on accelerating adoption of V1.&nbsp; While the product documentation will tell you how each of our tools works, it doesn&#8217;t provide insight into the best practice usage of each.&nbsp; The guidance that we recently released attempts to fill that gap in the area of version control and how to best work with branches.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the high level overview:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction  <\/li>\n<li>Parallel Development  <\/li>\n<li>Branching Defined  <\/li>\n<li>Creating Isolation in Team Foundation Server  <\/li>\n<li>General Branching Structure Guidance  <\/li>\n<li>Branching Strategies  <\/li>\n<li>Broad Areas of Branching Isolation  <\/li>\n<li>Creating Your Branching Strategy  <\/li>\n<li>Defining Your Code Promotion Model  <\/li>\n<li>Feature Crews: How Microsoft Does It  <\/li>\n<li>End-to-End Implementation Scenario  <\/li>\n<li>Appendix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d0a5a081-c117-415d-967c-f5465a932957\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tfs\" rel=\"tag\">tfs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team%20foundation\" rel=\"tag\">team foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/source%20control\" rel=\"tag\">source control<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/branching\" rel=\"tag\">branching<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Beehler announced the initial release of guidance on using branching and merging with your development process with TFS.&nbsp; This has been a pretty popular request from folks. Branching guidance now available I&#8217;m extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server.&nbsp; This was a collaborative effort between the TFS product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Jeff Beehler announced the initial release of guidance on using branching and merging with your development process with TFS.&nbsp; This has been a pretty popular request from folks. Branching guidance now available I&#8217;m extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server.&nbsp; This was a collaborative effort between the TFS product [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}