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Ignacio Soler Garcia
Ignacio Soler Garcia

Reputation: 21855

TFS 2010 and 2015 really slow when deleting branches

We develop every US and Bug on a branch to be able to review the code related with that element so we generate a nice amount of branches. Every month we delete the old ones and traditionally this process has been way too slow.

We can only commit the deletion of 6 to 10 branches at once, otherwise we get a timeout. The deletion of 10 branches takes more that 5 minutes.

We have migrated recently from TFS 2010 and VS 2010 to TFS 2015 and VS2015 and nothing changed.

Is this normal? Is there a way to speed up this? Looking for an answer in google all I found is something related with local workspaces which is not the case, the workspace is remote.

Regards.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 254

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51183

First, please check if other operations also delay so long, like adding a file, are fast.

And you could use tf delete command instead of GUI in VS. Which may do the trick. Deleting the branch will only actually perform a "soft delete". The branch will still exist complete with all of it's history, except it will be hidden. If you want to permanently deletes version-controlled files from Team Foundation version control, need to perform a tf destroy command.

Also check if it's a client issue, like a conflicting Visual Studio add-in. Try to clear TFS and VS cache.Besides, you could use another account and machine to do the delete operation next month.

Must to say there is some delay of deleting branch in TFS using VS GUI. I have created 20 empty branches for test. It took about 30 seconds to complete the whole delete operation. So if your branch have a number of folders with a large number of files, then the deletion of 10 branches takes about 5 minutes looks like acceptable. After all in TFVC, we don't create and delete branches frequently like GIT.

Upvotes: 1

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