Monday, August 31, 2015

Performing a baseless Merge in Team Foundation Server

If you search Google for how to perform a baseless Merge operation, you may come across these articles which require using the command-line:


How To: Perform a Baseless Merge in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Bb668976.aspx


Merge Command
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bd6dxhfy%28v=vs.100%29.aspx

Well, unfortunately, Microsoft has not updated these articles for TFS 2012 and later releases!!

Fortunately, however, this article addresses how to perform a baseless Merge using the User Interface beginning with TFS 2012 and later releases: http://incyclesoftware.com/2012/08/baseless-merge-vs-2012-ui/

It is a great relief to know that you can now perform baseless merges directly using the Visual Studio User Interface and not have to resort to the command line to perform these operations thus making baseless merges much easier to use for the entire development team!

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