Inactivating and activating branches

Inactivating a branch prevents users from viewing or performing any actions on the branch and its repositories and files. You may want to inactivate a branch when your team is no longer using a branch, but you want it to be displayed in the Branches tree, Branch menu, and the Branch Maintenance dialog box. For example, you may want to inactivate old baseline branches used for feature development that you do not want users to be able to access.

Inactivating a parent branch does not inactive child branches, except when you inactivate a mainline branch. Inactivating a mainline branch also inactivates all child branches, repositories and subrepositories, and files, and makes the entire mainline inaccessible. Inactive branches are displayed in the Branches tree or Branch menu unless they are hidden. See Hiding and unhiding branches.

1. Choose Tools > Administration > Branch Maintenance.

The Branch Maintenance dialog box opens.

You can also choose Branch > Branch Attributes > Active to inactivate a branch.

2. Select a branch to inactivate or activate and click Toggle Active.

If the selected branch is active, you are prompted to confirm inactivating it.

3. Click Close to close the Branch Maintenance dialog box.