Can I branch a file to another TFS workspace?

I have some general purpose classes in one project that I would like to branch to another unrelated project in another TFS folder that I have mapped to a different workspace. I would prefer branching to plain copying to keep the change history and be able开发者_运维问答 to merge back any changes.

However, when I try to branch the file in TFS, it complains that no appropriate mapping exists. Is there a way to branch across workspaces?

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It turned out that I just had to select my source control explorer workspace to be the target workspace rather than the source workspace, then branching was allowed. Now the files appear in the other project with history and possibility to merge back.

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No, that's not possible - at least not that way.

But if you have general-purpose libraries, which are used across various applications, you should reorganize your project and workspace structure anyway...

If you had for example two solutions, which partially include the same project(s), and then would map each of these solutions to an individual workspace, then it should work.

HTH.
Thomas