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Branching guidance now available

  • Artigo

I'm extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server.  This was a collaborative effort between the TFS product team and members of our "Ranger" program who are focused on accelerating adoption of V1.  While the product documentation will tell you how each of our tools works, it doesn't provide insight into the best practice usage of each.  The guidance that we recently released attempts to fill that gap in the area of version control and how to best work with branches. 

One thing about the Ranger team is that they straddle the fence between our customers and the product team.  So, what you'll read in this guidance isn't some theoretical description of how things should work in a perfect world but instead has been pressure tested and proved to be effective through actual TFS projects.  In fact, you'll find examples pulled directly from our own teams experiences as well. 

The other exciting thing about this effort is that it's been posted on https://www.codeplex.com which means that we're poised to take your feedback and incorporate it directly into the guidance.  So, it's bound to get better over time with your help. 

Here's the high level overview:

  • Introduction
  • Parallel Development
  • Branching Defined
  • Creating Isolation in Team Foundation Server
  • General Branching Structure Guidance
  • Branching Strategies
  • Broad Areas of Branching Isolation
  • Creating Your Branching Strategy
  • Defining Your Code Promotion Model
  • Feature Crews: How Microsoft Does It
  • End-to-End Implementation Scenario
  • Appendix

Enough talk...go take a look for yourself:  view the branching guidance online. 

Congrats to John, Mario and Graham for their hard work here...hope you like it!

Woohoo!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    As Jeff Beehler announced on his blog today, you can now find Branching Guidance for Team Foundation

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Jeff Beehler announced the initial release of guidance on using branching and merging with your development

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Jeff, thanks for pointing us to this. Finally, some documented guidance from Microsoft on branching with Team Foundation Server.  This includes a section on how Microsoft is using branching using "Feature Crews". Posting a guidance white paper as a CodePlex project is an interesting use for CodePlex, but, in some ways, a weird distribution model for this information.

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Jeff Beehler, thanks for pointing us to this. Finally, some documented Branching Guidance with Team Foundation Server from Microsoft . This includes a section on how Microsoft is using branchin ...

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Jeff, After reading the document I need clarification about the "Multiple Release Scenario" (MRS) and “Multiple Feature/Team Scenarios” (MFTS) outlined on pg 15. Assuming that the original tree structure was created by following the steps in the “Single Release Scenario” (SRS) what happens to the DEV branch to make it a container to support branches from MAIN? At one point in time it was the source of all branches, right, or do you substitute MAIN for DEV when you first create the tree, then branch down into DEV? Can you lay out the exact steps as you did for SRS on pg 14 Thank you, Stephen Patten stephen dot patten at lendingtree dot com Lending Tree

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Comme l'a précisé Jeff Beehler sur son blog, un guide très complet vient de sortir sur l'utilisation

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Jeff Beehler의 블로거를 통해 공유된 내용 중, Visual Studio Team Founation Server를 이용해 개발 소스를 관리하는 경우 소스의 분기 (Branching)를

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2007
    Customers frequently ask me which branching strategy they should use with TFS. However, TFS is incredibly

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2007
    We get lots of questions about how to organize version control in TFS, particularly around branching.

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2007
    About a year ago at our Dev & IT-Pro Days 2006 Steven Wilssens delivered a session on advanced version

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2007
    J.D. Meier on Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance Now Available. Jeff Beehler on Branching guidance...