Team Foundation Server - How to team build a Team Project but not pull all branches

Question

Currently we have a team project setup like below (in regards to branches)

Team Project
|__Developement
|__Development - Isolated Feature Dev
|__Main
|__Production

The issue that i have, is that when we want to do a team build on the production branch solution, it copies the entire team project down to the build server (so 4x copies, 1 for each branch) As the project is rather large, and the other branches are not required to be built, i'm wondering if there is any way to only build the single branch required?

Answer 1

When you configure the build, on the workspace tab, choose the correct branch in source control.

Answer 2

If you only want to check out the Development branch, configure the build to check out

$/Team Project/Development

If you want to check out a particular folder, but not sub-folders, you can 'Cloak' the sub-folders. Right click on the build from Team Explorer, chose "Edit Build Definition", and click the 'Workspace' tab.

From there you can cloak/add as many folders (branches are just folders) from as many places as you like