Chapter 10Branching and Merging
What's in this chapter?
- Understanding branching terminology and concepts
- Getting to know common branching strategies
- Using the branching and merging tools with TFVC
- Using the branching and merging tools with Git
Branching and merging in version control can open up a whole world of possibilities for improving development productivity through parallelization. Yet, for many developers, branching and merging are slightly scary and full of uncertainty. Because of a lack of good tooling in the past, many developers still shy away from branching and merging, despite Team Foundation Server having good support for both. At the other extreme, some people who see all the great branching and merging functionality available can go a little crazy with their newly found power. Overuse of branching and merging can impact developer productivity and reduce the maintainability of their repository as a result.
With the addition of Git as a supported version control repository in Team Foundation Server 2013, you now have two different methods of branching and merging available to your teams.
No matter which side of the spectrum you find yourself on, this chapter explains the fundamental principles behind the important branching and merging strategies, and it provides some key guiding principles to help you apply them to your organization's needs. This chapter highlights the branching and merging tooling available with Team Foundation Server 2013, and then concludes ...
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