New Post: Branch to share assemblies and other blobs between team projects?
Hey all, This is a huge topic area, take a look at the guide for pros/cons. However also take a look at NuGet and NuGet package restore as a potential solution for dependency management which can in...
View ArticleNew Post: Making sure fixes don't get lost from one release to another
We have found that we "lost" a fix from one release to another. I need help in determining the best thing to do to help make sure this doesn't happen again. Picture the "Advanced Branch Plan" scenario....
View ArticleNew Post: Code Promotion Branch Plan Limitations?
I've been looking at the Code Promotion Branch Plan and I'm not clear as to how to apply a hot fix to a production release. Main -> Test -> Prod For example, if we are working on vNext in Main...
View ArticleNew Post: Code Promotion Branch Plan Limitations?
I suppose I can answer my own question. Looking at "Branching and Merging Guidance - Strategies" it's clear the it does not support a hot fix.
View ArticleNew Post: Code Promotion Branch Plan Limitations?
As with most things branching... "it depends"... and there are options. You could make the hotfix to the prod branch and get it out the door, then move it back to Test and Main (if they needed it). You...
View ArticleNew Post: Basic plan confusion about number of release branches and dev...
I just read through the Guide, and I'm a bit confused about the Basic plan and the role of the integration branch. Tell me if I understood it correctly: You have a Main branch that will always contain...
View ArticleNew Post: Basic plan confusion about number of release branches and dev...
My comments are based on the Friday, August 24, 2012 version of the Branching and Merging Guide. I recommend you re-read page 40. Most of your questions are answered there. I pasted the first part...
View ArticleNew Post: Basic plan confusion about number of release branches and dev...
Hi, I read over the Basic Plan again, and I understand it a lot better now. I still have two more questions. 1) Is the Branch by Feature Plan an add-on to the Basic, Standard and Advance plan? It...
View ArticleNew Post: Basic plan confusion about number of release branches and dev...
1. Yes, the technique to "Branch by feature" can be added on to any of the plans.2. It sounds like you understand. But there are some tricky spots. It is not merely the presence of multiple dev...
View ArticleNew Post: Basic plan confusion about number of release branches and dev...
Ah, it's all starting to make a lot of sense. So if I have 3 DEV branches, and initially, I thought they would be independent from each other, but as development progresses, I notice that DEV 1 and DEV...
View ArticleNew Post: Rolling Release as a component of a Periodic Release
First, I'd like to thank you for the excellent documentation. It's proved invaluable lately. We're responsible for deploying a web application that contains customizations (via a single compiled DLL)....
View ArticleNew Post: Basic plan confusion about number of release branches and dev...
There is a way to reparent an existing branch to an integration branch, but to do what you are asking is very tricky. The built-in reparent feature is not intended for this scenario. You may not like...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
Hi all, In TFS I understanding there is the branching and the labeling but it also seems with TFS that it's too much information or risky, respectively. Assuming we have a multiple applications...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
First, it's important to understand the facts about TFS branching and disk storage. If you have a trunk (MAIN) with 2,000 artifacts, and you branch it all, very little extra space is used on the...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
Hi Davidkallen, So sorry about the delay. Yes, I believe it's not taking much space on the server as I believe that is just the meta stored on there. However, you are correct and that's what I'm...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
How much disk space is consumed by the entire collection of 2,000 artifacts? It should be easy to obtain by looking at your development machine.
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
We are currently using SVN. But yep, familiar with how to get the size on the development machine or local machine. The 2,000 artifacts was just an example and very close to the disk size but here are...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
How often do you create a branch?As a reference for performance, it takes me only 7 minutes to download a complete new branch with 2 GB and 27,000 files. And my source code is on the internet in the...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
Whenever we create a new project we have it on a branch. So, how often really is based on how many projects we have going on that is scheduled for a release. You could associate it to a feature branch...
View ArticleNew Post: Identify an artifact or Multiple Artifacts for a Project
no. I've not seen anything about creating a branch on just specific artifacts.But here is an idea. I just tried it. Make a full branch of all 17,890 files. It only takes a few seconds, right? Because...
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