{"id":4543,"date":"2012-08-24T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T09:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2012\/08\/24\/alm-rangers-branching-and-merging-guide-for-visual-studio-2012-is-available\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T04:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:41:45","slug":"alm-rangers-branching-and-merging-guide-for-visual-studio-2012-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/alm-rangers-branching-and-merging-guide-for-visual-studio-2012-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guide for Visual Studio 2012 is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2012\/08\/15\/cowabunga-visual-studio-alm-rangers-readiness-gig-goes-rtm.aspx\">Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness \u201cGIG\u201d goes RTM!<\/a> the RTM version of the Branching and Merging Guide for Visual Studio 2012\u00a0 was not included in the sim-ship wave. But we have just received the following signal from the product owner <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/mitrik\/\">Matthew Mitrik<\/a> and the project lead <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/willy-peter_schaub\/archive\/2011\/07\/07\/introducing-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers-micheal-learned.aspx\">Micheal Learned<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/1145.image_thumb_392A3AEA.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor;margin-right: 0px;margin-left: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/1145.image_thumb_392A3AEA.png\" width=\"141\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <em>Well done team!<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>The team has released the following bits, with more to come:<\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"4\">Guidance<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Branching and Merging Guide<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Screenshot (4)\" style=\"float: right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screenshot (4)\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/7024.Screenshot-4_thumb_3FDD446D.png\" width=\"383\" height=\"215\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Cheatsheets<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced Plan<\/li>\n<li>Basic Branch Plan<\/li>\n<li>Code Promotion Plan<\/li>\n<li>Feature Branch Plan<\/li>\n<li>Picking a Strategy<\/li>\n<li>Standard Branch Plan<\/li>\n<li>Terminology<\/li>\n<li>Hands-on Labs<\/li>\n<li>Local Workspaces, Diff and Merge HOL<\/li>\n<li>Shared Resources HOL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong>Illustrations<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reusable Illustrations PPTX collection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\">\n  <em>Download the latest bits today\u2026 <br \/><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/vsarbranchingguide.codeplex.com\/releases\/view\/93330\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/5861.image_0AD0B53D.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a> <br \/><em>\u2026and share your candid feedback!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness \u201cGIG\u201d goes RTM! the RTM version of the Branching and Merging Guide for Visual Studio 2012\u00a0 was not included in the sim-ship wave. But we have just received the following signal from the product owner Matthew Mitrik and the project lead Micheal Learned: \u00a0 Well done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,229,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ci","category-community","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As mentioned in Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness \u201cGIG\u201d goes RTM! the RTM version of the Branching and Merging Guide for Visual Studio 2012\u00a0 was not included in the sim-ship wave. But we have just received the following signal from the product owner Matthew Mitrik and the project lead Micheal Learned: \u00a0 Well done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}