Change default branch path name in TFS 2013

Question

We have a trunk branch in TFS called Main . From that we create bug/feature branches that should go into their own folder. We had created a folder called Development for this purpose, so when we branched we would specify...

$/TFS/Development/{branchname}

However, we noticed TFS defaulted the path to...

$/TFS/Main-branch

So we thought, we'll just rename Development to Main-branch and life will be good. And we did.

Now the problem is TFS defaults the path to...

$/TFS/Main-branch1

I realize this is severely in the "first world problem" category, but is there a way to change the default path TFS uses? I have found other SO posts that indicate this cannot be done, but I was hoping there was something we could do for TFS2013.

Answer 1

There is no way to change this behavior without code.

It is the same behavior as creating a new folder in windows explorer and it being "NewFolder"...

It's kinda deliberate so you give it a proper name 😊