Tag: Git

There are many situations where you want to make a copy of a repository…

• You’ve been working on a personal repo and want to share it with work
• You’re contributing to an open source project and need to fork
  
• You’ve been working on a repo that you want to hand-over to a customer

It’s the last situation that I need to fulfill and the steps are as follows.

In the source repo;

1. Create a personal access token (don’t forget to copy it)
2. Copy the source repo URL

In the destination repo;

1. Select Repos
2. Select the drop down the repo list
3. Select Import repository

1. Clone URL = source repo URL
2. Select the Requires authorization check-box
3. Username = username of the personal access token created above
4. Password = generated password of the personal access token created above
5. Name = name of the destination repo (if different)
6. Click import

Once the process is complete you’ll receive an on-screen and email notification.

When you create a new DevOps project, you only get one Git repo. It is possible to create more repos within the project, but not immediately obvious how. There are a couple of options;

Navigate to Repos, hit the drop down and select Manage repositories

Or…

Open the project and go to Project settings| Repositories | New Repository

Permissions

You will need CreateRepository permissions to complete this.