Branch from local workspace

Question

I was developing team project and suddenly realised that i've made so many changes, that i need create branch.

I've never used branching in TFS and when i saw "Branch\ "From Workspace version" i thought that's, what i need. But this option doesn't act as i supposed.

How can i create new branch, from my "LOCAL COPY of Project" and include all local changes"? The option that I mentioned above creates something like branch from...i don't know exacly from what, but i know for sure, that not from my local version with all changes. As i noticed, generated branch doesn't have files and project which i added.

Answer 1

What I would do is:

• Shelve your work
• Branch from the appropriate source folder
• Use TFS Power Tools to unshelve to a different location
• Check in.

That way, you get a nice clean branch, and you get a record of the changes you have made.