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Posted on August 17, 2022August 17, 2022 by geralexgr — Leave a comment

remote: TF401019: The Git repository with name or identifier does not exist or you do not have permissions for the operation you are attempting.

Recently from a new devops project I tried to checkout an external repository from another devops project and I got a failure. In more detail I was working on a new pipeline on devops project B and I was trying to fetch a repository from azure devops project A.

remote: TF401019: The Git repository with name or identifier does not exist or you do not have permissions for the operation you are attempting.

Searching it further I realized that the error was the job scope. In order to resolve I disabled the job scope for the current project (the one from which I run the pipeline – project B).

After disabling “Limit job authorization scope to current project for non release pipelines” then I was able to get a successful checkout for the external repository.

Posted on July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 by geralexgr — Leave a comment

Trigger azure Devops pipeline from another repository

For security reasons you may want to store the pipelines to another repository than the one that the code is hosted. Lets say for example that you have your application code located on test-project/repository location but your pipelines are stored on the consoleapp1 repository. Also you want to have continuous integration and deployment for the repository on which the code is hosted, so when code is pushed to repository then the pipeline should trigger which is hosted on ConsoleApp1.

You can do that using the repositories resource of azure devops. You will need to define the repository and also configure trigger for this repository based on your strategy.

The final result would be the pipeline to run when code is commited on the code repository instead of the one that pipelines are hosted.

Posted on February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 by geralexgr — Leave a comment

Automatically update your GitHub repositories with a powershell script

Developers often have a lot of repositories stored on their local machines. These repositories get updated from other developers and they stay outdated. In many cases developers forget to fetch and pull the latest changes on those repositories and when they commit code, the IDE will notify of the new changes. When this is the case, the commit will get an non explanatory message as the latest of the commit and you will have to navigate on the actual commit to verify the changes and commit message.

Commit message
Merge branch test/v3.0.0 of https://github.com/org/repository

In order to resolve this issue, you can create a powershell script that can automatically fetch the latest changes of your local repositories. You will need to change your repositories base location.

	#change your github location
	$github_directory = "C:\Users\galexiou\Documents\GitHub"


	Get-ChildItem $github_directory \| ForEach-Object {
	if($_.Attributes -eq "Directory")
	{
	Write-Host $_.FullName
	Set-Location $_.FullName
	git fetch
	git pull
	}
	}

view raw github-update.ps1 hosted with ❤ by GitHub

As you can see from the output below this script will go and fetch the latest changes on the repositories that have been updated.

You can also create a cron job or an automated windows task in order to run this job automatically on computer startup or on your work schedule start. For example

On task scheduler press create task

and select your triggers (when this task will run) along with the action. This will be the run of the powershell script. On the argument you must specify the -File location (where you stored your powershell script).