Branching, Label, Merging - examples.
Hi,
I'm fairly new to TFS, so was wondering if people could give some practical examples of when I would want to , or need to create a branch, Label and Merge ?
regards,
Peds
Hi,
I'm fairly new to TFS, so was wondering if people could give some practical examples of when I would want to , or need to create a branch, Label and Merge ?
regards,
Peds
See the following links (while not written with TFS in mind, they are pretty good introductions to the concepts):-
http://software.ericsink.com/scm/source_control.html
and
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04.html
Brian Harry did a couple of good blog posts here:-
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/11/13/492258.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/11/18/494439.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/11/12/492198.aspx
I've also done a blog post on the topic here
http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000224.html
And Mitch Denny also did a nice series of posts:-
http://notgartner.com/posts/3556.aspx
http://notgartner.com/posts/3549.aspx
http://notgartner.com/posts/3571.aspx
http://notgartner.com/posts/3577.aspx
http://notgartner.com/posts/3627.aspx
Hope that helps for now - post back if you have any more questions :-)
Martin.
In addition to Martin's great set of links, you may also find the following posts to be helpful.
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2004/06/04/148633.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2004/06/04/148633.aspx
Buck