How to recover after a merge failure in TFS 2008?

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Published on 2010-03-15T20:51:44Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 21:29 UTC
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We recently attempted a large, "cherry picked" merge. First we did a full merge from one child development branch into the parent Main branch, then did a full merge of the Main branch into another child development branch, then we attempted to do a cherry pick merge from the second Development branch back into merge. There were many checkins, including renames and deletes; and when it wasn't working the person who was doing it did a bunch of TFPT rollbacks.

What options do we have to recover here? Things like baseless, force, etc merge? Roll back to a point in time and somehow, try again?

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