How to Map a new TFVC branch and push project content ?

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I created a branch called developer-1 from the main branch in TFVC Azure DevOps I have set up the following mappings for developer-1 branch

Metadata: C:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory
Projects: C:\Users\developerUserName\source\repos

The Azure DevOps pipeline is configured to run on the main branch I should pushing code to the developer-1 branch and then merging it into the main branch as I am new in d365 X++ it is a bit confusing for me

I have the following questions so far
-Do I need to map the main branch in the same way as the developer-1 branch?
-How do I push my changes (such as classes, forms, tables, and reports) from my local machine to the developer-1 branch, including both the metadata and project files? For example, if I am working on a solution in Visual Studio that contains a project with classes, forms, and tables, how should I push these changes?

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Martin Dráb 239,036 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If developers develop just against developer-1, it's the only branch you need to have mapped to PackagesLocalDirectory. If all developers also merge code to Main, they'll need a mapping to Main too, but it can be in any folder (e.g. c:\MyRepo).

If you want to develop in multiple branches and switch between them, it's more complicated, but feasible.

To push commit changes to TFVC, add your solution to source control, which also adds all the objects inside, and then check-in the changes.

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Hi @Martin Dráb thank you for your reply,

I have mapped only the developer-1 branch as show below after pushing the code I tried to merge the branch into main but I faced an error indicating that I need to map the main branch as well

developer-1:

Metadata: C:\AOSService\PackagesLocalDirectory
Projects: C:\Users\developerUserName\source\repos

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I already covered this topic in my previous reply: If all developers also merge code to Main, they'll need a mapping to Main too, but it can be in any folder (e.g. c:\MyRepo).

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Hi @D365FO Junior-Dev

My usual approach is to have another folder somewhere, e.g. K drive on a CHE, which is mapped to the root directory of you TFVC source repo, in its own workspace.

Something like:

K:\ProjectRoot

-Dev

--Projects

--Metadata

-Main

--Projects

--Metadata

Then from visual studio, open this workspace in source explorer, and you can right click the dev branch and merge to main. You can merge changsets for specific changes (be careful with this), or latest for everything.

Anthony

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