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Alternatively you can use the GitKraken integration with Azure DevOps, the documentation for this can be found here. Finally press 'Push' to add your code to the repository within Azure DevOps Repos. Once the push is complete you can refresh the Azure DevOps Repos window, and your files will be visible. Setting the build pipeline. GitKraken allows you to connect to Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS), which will help you find repos on Azure DevOps when cloning.

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A personal access token (PAT) is used as an alternate password to authenticate into Azure DevOps. Learn how to create, use, modify, and revoke PATs for Azure DevOps.

If you're working within Microsoft tools, then your Microsoft account (MSA) or Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is an acceptable and well-supported approach. But, if you're working with third-party tools that don't support Microsoft or Azure AD accounts – or you don't want to provide your primary credentials to the tool – you can make use of PATs to limit your risk.

PATs are easy to create when you need them and easy to revoke when you don’t. To set up PATs for non-Microsoft tools, use Git credential managers or create them manually. We recommend that you review our authentication guidance to help you choose the correct authentication mechanism. For smaller projects that require a less robust solution, PATs are a simple alternative. Unless your users are using a credential manager, they have to enter their credentials each time.

You can create and manage your PATs through one of two ways:

  • the user interface in your user settings, which is described in detail below, and
  • through the PAT Lifecycle Management API.

Create a PAT

Note

To enable the new user interface for the New account manager page, see Manage or enable features.

  1. Sign in to your organization in Azure DevOps (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization})

  2. From your home page, open your user settings, and then select Personal access tokens.

  3. And then select + New Token.

  4. Name your token, select the organization where you want to use the token, and then choose a lifespan for your token.

  5. Select the scopesfor this token to authorize for your specific tasks.

    For example, to create a token to enable a build and release agent to authenticate to Azure DevOps Services,limit your token's scope to Agent Pools (Read & manage). To read audit log events, and manage and delete streams, select Read Audit Log, and then select Create.

  6. When you're done, make sure to copy the token. For your security, it won't be shown again. Use this token as your password.

  1. Sign in to your organization in Azure DevOps (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization})

  2. From your home page, open your profile. Go to your security details.

  3. Select + New Token.

  4. Name your token, select the organization where you want to use the token, and then choose a lifespan for your token.

  5. Select the scopesfor this token to authorize for your specific tasks.

    For example, to create a token to enable a build and release agent to authenticate to Azure DevOps Services,limit your token's scope to Agent Pools (Read & manage), and then select Create.

  6. When you're done, make sure to copy the token. For your security, it won't be shown again. Use this token as your password.

  1. Sign in to your web portal (https://{server}:8080/tfs/).

  2. From your home page, open your profile. Go to your security details.

  3. Create a personal access token.

  4. Name your token. Select a lifespan for your token.

    If you have more than one organization,you can also select the organization where you want to use the token.

  5. Select the scopesfor this token to authorize for your specific tasks.

    For example, to create a token to enable a build and release agent to authenticate,limit your token's scope to Agent Pools (read, manage).

  6. When you're done, make sure to copy the token. For your security, it won't be shown again. Use this token as your password. Select Close.

Once your PAT is created, you can use it anywhere your user credentials are required for authentication in Azure DevOps.

Notifications

Users receive two notifications during the lifetime of a PAT - one upon creation and the other seven days before the expiration.

After you create a PAT, you receive a notification similar to the following example.

Seven days before your PAT expires, you receive a notification similar to the following example.

Unexpected notification

If you receive an unexpected PAT notification, an administrator or tool might have created a PAT on your behalf. See the following examples.

  • When you connect to an Azure DevOps Git repo through git.exe. it creates a token with a display name like 'git: https://MyOrganization.visualstudio.com/ on MyMachine.'
  • When you or an administrator sets up an Azure App Service web app deployment, it creates a token with a display name like 'Service Hooks: : Azure App Service: : Deploy web app.'
  • When you or an administrator sets up web load testing, as part of a pipeline, it creates a token with a display name like 'WebAppLoadTestCDIntToken'.
  • When a Microsoft Teams Integration Messaging Extension is set up, it creates a token with a display name like 'Microsoft Teams Integration'.

If you believe that a PAT exists in error, we suggest that you revoke the PAT. Then, change your password. As an Azure AD user, check with your administrator to see if your organization was used from an unknown source or location. See also the FAQ about accidentally checking in a PAT to a public GitHub repository.

Use a PAT

Your token is your identity and represents you when it's used. Treat and use a PAT like your password.

  1. Git interactions require a username, which can be anything except the empty string.The PAT is used as the password.Additionally, you have to Base64-encode the username and PAT to use it with HTTP basic authentication.On Linux or macOS, in Bash, you can enter:

On Windows, you can do something similar in PowerShell:

To keep your token more secure, use credential managers so you don't have to enter your credentials every time. We recommend the following credential manager:

  • Git Credential Manager Core (Windows also requires Git for Windows)

Use a PAT in your code

See the following sample that gets a list of builds using curl.


If you wish to provide the PAT through an HTTP header, first convert it to a Base64 string (the following example shows how to convert to Base64 using C#). The resulting string can then be provided as an HTTP header in the following format:
Authorization: Basic BASE64_USERNAME_PAT_STRING
Here it is in C# using the HttpClient class.


Tip

When you're using variables, add a '$' at the beginning of the string, like in the following example.

When your code is working, it's a good time to switch from basic auth to OAuth.

If you enable IIS Basic Authentication for TFS, PATs aren't valid. For more information, see Using IIS Basic Authentication with TFS on-premises.

For more examples of how to use PATs, see Git credential managers, REST APIs, NuGet on a Mac, Reporting clients, or Get started with Azure DevOps CLI.

Modify a PAT

You can regenerate or extend a PAT, and modify its scope.

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To enable the new user interface for the New account manager page, see Manage or enable features.

  1. From your home page, open your user settings, and then select Profile.

  2. Under Security, select Personal access tokens. Select the token for which you want to modify, and then select Edit.

  3. Edit the token name, organization it applies to, token expiration, or the scope of access that's associated with the token, and then select Save.

  1. From your home page, open your profile. Go to Security details.

  2. Select the token for which you want to modify, and then select Edit.

  3. Edit the token name, organization it applies to, token expiration, or the scope of access that's associated with the token, and then select Save.

Revoke a PAT

You can revoke a PAT at any time, for various reasons.

Note

To enable the new user interface for the New account manager page, see Manage or enable features.

  1. From your home page, open your user settings, and then select Profile.

  2. Under Security, select Personal access tokens. Select the token for which you want to revoke access, and then select Revoke.

  3. Select Revoke in the confirmation dialog.

  1. From your home page, open your profile. Go to Security details.

  2. Select the token for which you want to revoke access, and then select Revoke.

  3. Select Revoke in the confirmation dialog.

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FAQs

Q: Is there a way to renew a PAT via REST API?

A: Yes, there is a way to renew, manage, and create PATs using our PAT Lifecycle Management APIs. Read more about renewing/regenerating/rotating PATs in our FAQ.

Q: Can I use basic auth with all of Azure DevOps REST APIs?

A: No. You can use basic auth with most of them, but organizations and profiles only support OAuth.

Q: What happens if I accidentally check my PAT into a public repository on GitHub?

A: Azure DevOps scans for PATs checked into public repositories on GitHub. When a leaked token is discovered, we immediately send a detailed email notification to the token owner and log an event to your Azure DevOps organization's audit log. We encourage impacted users to mitigate immediately by rotating or revoking the leaked PAT.

A pull request (sometimes called merge requests), is a review request. You are asking someone to check the changes on a branch before merging into another branch.

Creating a pull request

If connected to a remote on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Visual Studio Team Services, create pull requests by dragging and dropping one branch to another and selecting Start a pull request.

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Alternatively, try right-clicking the target branch and selecting Start a pull request.

Or click the in the pull requests section on the left panel, and select the repo and branch to create the pull request.

Pull request templates

GitKraken supports pull request templates from your GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps (including legacy VSTS URLs).

Once your pull request templates are commited to your remote, the template field will appear when you create a pull request in GitKraken:

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If this is your first time working with pull request templates, consider reviewing the following instructions for GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps pull request templates.

Assignee, Labels, and Reviewers

Some integrations will allow you to also add a pull request assignee and label(s) to your pull request. GitKraken will then pass these values onto your remote service when the pull request is created.

Note - When creating pull request, GitKraken will now detect whether your source branch has conflicts with the target branch in the pull request modal.

Depending on the integration, you may also add reviewers and multiple assignees to a pull request.

Note: Because pull requests occur in the remote, first push your branch before creating the request.

Draft Pull Requests

If connected to the GitHub Integration, you may create a draft pull request by checking this box when creating a pull request in GitKraken.

As the name implies, this will create a 'draft' pull request in GitHub. However please note that not all GitHub free or paid plans support the draft feature. Please check your GitHub plan if you do not see this option.

GitKraken Boards Cards

Associate your GitKraken Boards issues with pull requests by simply searching for the card name in the GitKraken Boards card section when creating a pull request.

Cards across all of your GitKraken Boards will be searched. Associate as many cards as you'd like to a pull request!

GitKraken passes the card information onto your remote service when the pull request is created. The pull request description will include a link to said card details.

On your GitKraken Board, information of the pull request will automatically populate under Pull Request in the cards' detail panel.

After setting up GitHub pull request integration in your GitKraken Board, you can trigger an automatic change to progress your card to a new column the moment your PR status changes. Goodbye, context-switching!

Working with active pull requests

GitKraken displays active pull requests in your graph with this icon.

If using the integration with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket, you may hover over the pull request in the left panel to get a quick view of when the pull request was opened and for which branches.

For the GitLab integration, this tooltip will also show any assignee or labels associated with the pull request.

And for GitHub, this tooltip will show assignees, labels, reviewers, and build status.

If the branch changes look good after review, you or a reviewer may merge the branch.

However if there are outstanding questions or comments, users can leave a comment on the pull request.

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If other changes are required, make the change to your code, and then commit and push to your existing branch. Updating your branch updates the pull request too.

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Read more about using pull requests on our blog.