How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

re: How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

Robin — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:57:26 GMT

Bill, I used the "branch for reuse" under TFS2008 as well. It results in the nested branches you mention, which are not allowed under TFS2010, unless you convert them to "folders". Those obstacles introduced with 2010 motivated me to read the 2010 online documentation in detail and there you can Microsoft states, that the 2008 innovation of "branches for reuse" taken from the "TFS 2008 best practices" white paper by the Microsoft Architecture Team have become deprecated and not recommended with TFS 2010. Again: Microsoft recommends not to use "branched folder" but branches instead.

re: How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

Bill Heys — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:18:49 GMT

One more reason. You may find that you want to nest a branch under an existing branch. Or to nest this branch under another branch. TFS 2010 does not allow nested branches. But it does allow nested branched folders. If you convert the branch to a branched folder, you can nest a branch under it.

re: How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

Bill Heys — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:18:26 GMT

re: How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

Buck Hodges — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:31:47 GMT

Ewald, that's a great point. The conversion in the upgrade code is a heuristic, and it will make mistakes, which you can fix using this and the opposite operation (converting a folder to a branch that got missed by the upgrade code). Thanks for pointing that out!

Buck

re: How to convert a branch back to a regular folder

Ewald Hofman — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:08:32 GMT

Buck,

You also need this when the migration from TFS 2008 added some invalid branch paths.