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Personal access tokens let you create a password for use with the command line or other Git client without using your Azure DevOps Services username and password directly. They're the recommend approach in this case, even according to Azure's own documentation (below), so they should really make it more obvious: Instead of setting a simple password to use with Git, you should use a personal access token. Clicking 'Generate Git credentials' reveals the form shown below, which encourages you to set a password. In order to push to your Azure Repos repository, you need to generate some new credentials. The slightly confusing solution to this is the 'Generate Git credentials button' nestled under the 'Clone to your computer' section. Generating Git Credentials for Azure Repos Nevertheless, I tried the password for my Microsoft account, but that didn't work.

The username is my organisation name ( andrewlock), not an email address I have access to. That last line rather confused me as the username/email isn't one I've seen before. > git remote add origin /andrewlock/TestRepo2/_git/TestRepo Initialized empty Git repository in C:/repos/andrewlock/temp/.git/

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Click this link and you're presented with a plethora of options for how to connect a local Git repo to Azure ReposĬonnecting a local Git repository to Azure ReposĪs it happens I'd already created a new empty Git repo locally, so I added the remote origin using the commands shown in the 'push an existing repository from command line' to section: > git init Flick the switch, and Azure Repos is enabled for the project:Īfter refreshing the page, you'll see the Azure Repos symbol appear on the left. To add Azure Repos, click Project settings > Overview and scroll to the bottom. When I created my project, only Azure Pipelines was enabled (presumably as that's all I've used previously). I gave mine the imaginative name: TestRepo. Go to, sign in with your Microsoft account and create a new project. I described how to setup an account for Azure Pipelines in a previous post, so see that one for how to get started. Creating a new Git repository with Azure ReposĪzure Repos is part of 'Azure DevOps' services, so you'll need to signup with a Microsoft account if you haven't already. GitHub, BitBucket, and Azure Repos all support Git LFS, and there's a whole host of open-source options. There are lots of different Git LFS implementations. The two technologies aren't compatible as far as I can see.

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VFS is the technology used to allow Microsoft to store the Windows source code in Git. Note that Git LFS is different to Virtual File System (VFS) for Git. That all happens seamlessly behind the scenes - when you checkout you see the actual binary files in your repository, they just aren't stored in the usual Git file structure. Git LFS tackles this problem by storing the binary files somewhere else and just storing a pointer to it in the Git repository. For large, frequently changing files, that can bloat your repository making simple operations slow and cumbersome. When you change a text file, Git only has to store the difference between the old and new file for binary files, Git has to store the entire file again, even if only a single byte changed. Unfortunately, while Git works great for source control of code and other text files, it can be cumbersome for working with large binary files like audio or video samples. I like Git - I'm no master but I can interactively rebase with the best of them.

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In this post I talk through the process I took to create a new Azure Repo, how to install Git LFS locally, and how to enable Git LFS in your repository. While I was trying new things, I decided to also look at Azure Repos for Git hosting. As an experiment, I decided to try out Git Large File Storage (LFS) as a solution to this problem. Unfortunately, that's just the sort of thing Git struggles with. I was recently working on a side project that seemed like it would have lots of large, binary assets.

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