Configure SourceTree with Azure Repositories

Steps

Pradeep Pradyumna
2 min readJun 21, 2021

Prerequisites

  1. Knowledge of Git
  2. Install the latest version of SourceTree from the site https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
  3. Of course, you need to have access to your Azure DevOps account https://dev.azure.com/YOUR_ORGANIZATION_NAME

With the following simple steps, you can connect your Azure repositories using SourceTree

Step 1

Open your Azure DevOps account and select any repository and click the Clone button

Step 2

Click on Generate Git Credentials button, it will show Username & Password. Just a make copy of it in a notepad

Step 3

Launch SourceTree and go to Remote tab and click on Add an account… button

Step 4

Set following values:

Hosting Service: Azure DevOps

Host URL: https://yourorganisationname.visualstudio.com

Preferred Protocol: HTTPS

Authentication: Personal Access Token

and click on the Refresh Personal Access Token button, it will prompt for username & password, just copy-paste the values from Step 2

That’s it! You’re all set to clone your repositories

Step 5

In the Remote tab, it will start listing down all your repositories. Now pick any repository you want and click on the Clone option

Step 6

All the fields will be prefilled for you, so just go ahead and click Clone

It will start downloading the code to your drive

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Pradeep Pradyumna
Pradeep Pradyumna

Written by Pradeep Pradyumna

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