Can TFS & Visual studio generate branch timeline diagrams?

Question

Is it possible for the branching diagrams to be automatically generated by Visual studio (using info from TFS)? I know there are simple tools like this, but they have no dates! and they don't show when it was merged back into the trunk branch.

I'd love for it to generate a diagram like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/wyJ8B.png

It needs to have dates of when the original branch was made (from trunk)... and when it was merged back into trunk.

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you right click on a changeset and select "track changeset" you get a view of where the changeset is and where it has been merged. You can then switch to Timeline View and see this overlayed on a timeline with dates.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd405662.aspx

Answer 2

There is a command line tool for TFS that at the very least can show you all of the branches that came off of trunk (and their children). It is:

tf branches <YourTrunkBranchPathHere>