What are the consequences of renaming a branch in TFS 2012?

Question

I\'ve read in many places that renaming a branch is rather problematic in TFS 2010 : you may lose the history of the branch you just renamed ( as seen in this article or in this

Answer 1

DON'T DO IT!!! You might be able to rename it on the server, but from my experience TFS wants to check every file out... basically treating it like a copy.