TFS 2010 Branch Across Team Projects - Best Practices

Question

I\'m having issues understanding how to configure TFS according to best practices as provided by the TFS Ranger team. The issue is such:

My company has several produ

Answer 1

TFS 2010 Branching Revisited:

I would like to offer a mode of confidence for the TFS 2010 baseless merge feature as a way to resolve this issue. I highly recommend picking up the Wrox book "Professional Team Foundation Server 2010".

In it, it describes this problem in depth and whilst it doesn't advocate the use of baseless merges, it sheds light on how to use them in scenarios like this.

We have been using them since this question was first resolved back in April and have yet to encounter a situation where the baseless merge present a problem. I wanted to post an image detailing our branching setup as recommended by the book and the ALM Ranger Team.