TFS Continuous Developement major project update

Question

We are using TFS Continuous Development model Main Trunk -> Various Development branches -> Various Release branches

All merging back to main trunk

Now we need some major changes to our folder structure and solutions

How do you handle folder restructure in above model of TFS usage?

• do i need to draw line and create new structure from latest Main trunk and lock all branches and do updates then creates branches with restructured new trunk.
• Or am i underestimating TFS, would be able to handle major folder structure updates and propagate over to branches. As long as i know if we move around folders in branch or trunk it don't like it.

Answer 1

TFS can handle this, and does it by "renaming" each file by changing it's TFS location path.

I've been able to do this in a child branch, merging it up into the trunk, and then back into another branch.

It does get a little tricky, and you are sometimes presented with confusing dialog boxes because it can't automatically resolve renaming changes.

When I got this box, I resolved any actual content changes in files. I was then able to cancel out of manually resolving every renaming change without any problems, and everything worked perfectly.