What are the consequences of renaming a branch in TFS 2012?

Question

I\'ve read in many places that renaming a branch is rather problematic in TFS 2010 : you may lose the history of the branch you just renamed ( as seen in this article or in this

Answer 1

You can do it, but depends what situation you're in. For my situation, I have the following structure:

Development
   ProjectX
      ProjectY
Main
Release

ProjectX is getting released sooner than ProjectY and it was merged to Development-->Main a week ago. Now, the name ProjectX isn't relevant anymore and also, there's a new project starting with a name ProjectZ so, I'm going to rename ProjectY to ProjectZ and rename ProjectX to ProjectY.

Both X, Y and Z are to be merged fully once they move to the standard release cycle so I don't have to worry about merging piece by piece.