Thursday, October 29, 2009

Convert folder to branch failure - Deleted folder

When you try to conevert a folder into a branch in TFS 2010, you may fail if you already have a branch somewhere in its sub folders.


The error is TF203028: You cannot create a branch at $serverPath because a branch already exists at $SubFolderServerPath.

You can fix this by converting this sub folder back to folder (as you can't have a branch inside a branch)



You might however don't see any such branch folder.
In this case - just set Visual Studio to show deleted items in Team Explorer.
Then you will be able to convert this sub folder into a folder - which will fix the problem

4 comments:

Adam C said...

Thanks! This did the trick. I wasn't aware of the "Show deleted" option.

Snaits said...

+1. Not easy to find this on my own.

Anonymous said...

Do you know what to do, when a branched folder is renamed and you want to convert it back to a folder? :*(

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