Ensuring projects in solution are from same TFS branch

Question

Is there an available way to identify if there is any project in a solution or reference in a project which is from another TFS source branch? The goal is to prevent this by alerting users before a check-in or while adding that project/reference.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This is probably not the most efficient way, but a band-aid we used...

We setup a gated checkin build that only checks out the specific source directory for that branch. Any references above or outside the branch root throws an error.

Hope this helps.