Safely delete a TFS branch project

Question

I\'m currently reorganising our TFS source control for a very large set of solutions, and I\'ve done this successfully so far.

I have a problem at the moment where I

Answer 1

In TFS you generally cannot permanently delete anything inside a team project (and TfsDeleteProject deletes a complete team project, but it is not clear if the source control content will actually be removed as a team project is just the top level of the source control tree).

A delete of a file, or whole set of files is just another tracked change, go back into history and it can still be seen.

You could use permissions to make it inaccessible to all. Or rename under an "Obsolete" team project.

EDIT (I finally remembered where this command was):

There is another option, from the command line: tf destroy:

Destroys, or permanently deletes, version-controlled files from Team Foundation version control.

I would expect this to remove the branch records to create the, now destroyed, files... but you might need to check.