Making a TFS Branch Read-Only

Question

We are trying to follow the branching strategy from the TFS Branching Guide and have reached the point where we have made a branch representing a release, which should now b

Answer 1

As is mentioned above locking is not a very nice strategy. The correct way of handling this is setting permissions.

You can effectively make files readonly. Users trying to modify the files will get a message 'checkout denied'

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252587.aspx#project_level

In VS2013: Team Explorer -> Settings -> Security/Version Control