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

I've been configuring TFS just now and met with the same problem. The point is, there's no need in baseless merge. Workaround:

1. Create parent branch

   $/Core/Main

2. Create child branch

   $/Product1
   -> /Main
   -> /Main/Core
   -> /Main/...

3. Delete child branch folder

   $/Product1/Main/Core

4. Create folder with the SAME name

   $/Product1/Main/Core

5. Convert Product1 folder to branch
   

   $/Product1/Main

Now you can merge changes from $/Core/Main to $/Product1/Main/Core and backwards.
Visualization won't work for Core branch, but it's okay I guess ;)