We have a baseline folder and development branches in TFS. We’d like to add a policy where changes can only be merged into the baseline from a development branch and not edited directly unless you override the policy. How can we do this?
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We have a baseline folder and development branches in TFS. We’d like to add a policy where changes can only be merged into the baseline from a development branch and not edited directly unless you override the policy. How can we do this?
There is no way to enforce this restriction 100%. Options:
There’s an example of a “merge only” checkin policy here: http://leon.mvps.org/TFS/MergeOnlyPolicy.aspx