Making a TFS Branch Read-Only

Question

We are trying to follow the branching strategy from the TFS Branching Guide and have reached the point where we have made a branch representing a release, which should now b

Answer 1

If you have inheritance set to 'On', the best way I've found is to:

1. 'Deny' all permissions except 'Read' to the 'Reader' group, and
2. Add all other groups (except Project Administrators) to the 'Reader' group.

Then, all groups within the Reader group will inherit the 'Deny' permissions and not be able to do anything but read.