TFS Branch Diagrams

Question

Hi,

Has anyone got any great ideas or experience around easily producing Branch Diagrams against TFS?

Thanks in advance for your help

Andy

Answer 1

TFS 2008 does not include this functionality, so you'll have to resort to a plug-in/add-on. I haven't found any mature projects that produce branch or version diagrams, though many allow browsing of branch/version trees.

• Team Foundation Sidekicks has a History Sidekick that includes version tree browsing
• Vertigo plans to include version tree browsing for individual files, as well as branches, but is still in alpha.

Answer 2

Very similar questions already answered:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/45882/view-tfs-checkin-history-across-branches http://stackoverflow.com/questions/681630/tfs-branch-merge-meets-history-view

If you don't mind setting up a 2nd server just for playing with branch visualization, TFS 2010 Beta 1 is going to render by far the best diagrams.