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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Microsoft Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance

in: http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2007/03/20/team-foundation-server-branching-guidance-now-available.aspx


The Team Foundation Server Branching Guidance whitepaper is now available! It's a comprehensive whitepaper that covers strategies, patterns and anti-patterns for branching and merging with TFS. You can view the branching guidance online or you can download the PDF version.

Branching Guidance Index
Introduction
Parallel Development
Branching Defined
Creating Isolation in Team Foundation Server
Isolation at Individual Level
Isolation for Collaboration
Branching Scenarios
General Branching Structure Guidance
Branching Checklist
Branching Strategies
Broad Areas of Branching Isolation
Creating Your Branching Strategy
Single Release Scenario
Multiple Release Scenario
Multiple Feature/Team Scenarios
Defining Your Code Promotion Model
Code Promotion Best Practices
Baseless Merges
Feature Crews: How Microsoft Does It
End-to-End Implementation Scenario
Step1 – Deciding on a Team Project structure
Step2 – Deciding on a branch structure
Step3- Following a release on paper
Step 4- Creating the physical structure
Appendix
Software Configuration Management
Branching and Merging Anti-Patterns
Branching in Team Foundation Server vs. Sharing in Visual SourceSafe
Labeling vs. Branching
Branching and Compliance
Identifying Environments
Virtual Build Labs


[update] And while you're there, VSTS Pattern & Practices section.

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