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John Little
John Little

Reputation: 12403

how to clone an azure dev ops git repo using PAT with command line git or sourcetree?

ok, our org has the code in an azure dev ops repo.

I have been trying to clone it via git command line on the mac, via sourcetree on the mac and via sourcetree on windows, with no luck.

I created a PAT in the azure git web UI.

on the mac, if I do:

$ git clone https://ourorg.visualstudio.com/CMS/_git/ourProj
Cloning into 'ourProj'...
Username for 'https://ourorg.visualstudio.com': xxx
Password for 'https://[email protected]': 
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://ourorg.visualstudio.com/CMS/_git/ourProj/'

For user, I tried my azure user, and I also tried the PAT. For pass, I tired my azure pass, and also the PAT.

None of these options work.

For sourcetree, I have also tried these combinations o PAT/PAT user/PAT user/pass etc. with no luck. Any suggestions?

This is the page I used to create the PAT:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/use-personal-access-tokens-to-authenticate?view=azure-devops

This doc says to use the PAT as the user and pass, but this simply doesnt work.

the doc also says you can do this:

git clone https://anything:{yourPAT}@dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName

But this does not work either.

e.g. If I do this (fixed thanks to jessejouwing):

$ git clone https://asdf:{myPATgoesHERE}@dev.azure.com/ourorg/CMS/_git/ourProj

On windows I always get:

Cloning into 'ourProj'... fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://dev.azure.com/ourorg/CMS/_git/ourProj/'

The PAT is 100% correct.

Unfortunately, "alternative credentials" is disabled in our org, so we have to use PAT. PAT is not working, so I cant work.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 13562

Answers (3)

Florian Eckert
Florian Eckert

Reputation: 311

if you want to avoid personalAccessTokens and have the Azure CLI installed, you can use following snippet

az login --allow-no-subscriptions --tenant $tenant 
$azureDevOpsToken = az account get-access-token --resource '499b84ac-1321-427f-aa17-267ca6975798' --query accessToken --output tsv --tenant $tenant
git clone "https://[email protected]/$organization/$projectName/_git/$repositoyName"

Upvotes: 0

dparkar
dparkar

Reputation: 2132

git clone https://{yourPAT}@dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName

That should suffice.

Upvotes: 3

Thiago Custodio
Thiago Custodio

Reputation: 18387

Just click on Generate Git Credentials and use it to authenticate / clone your repo:

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Upvotes: 1

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