Get started with Git from the command line

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This guide shows you how to share your code in a Git repo in Azure Repos using the command line.

The instructions below use the default bash shell used on Linux and macOS, but the Git commands will work in any shell, including Git Bash from Git for Windows.

Prerequisites

  • An organization in Azure DevOps. If you don't have an organization, you can sign up for one for free. Each organization includes free, unlimited private Git repositories.

Download and install Azure CLI and add Azure DevOps extension

  1. Install the Azure CLI. You must have at least v2.0.49, which you can verify with az --version command.

  2. Add the Azure DevOps Extension az extension add --name azure-devops

  3. Run the az login command.

    If the CLI can open your default browser, it will do so and load a sign-in page. Otherwise, you need to open a browser page and follow the instructions on the command line to enter an authorization code after navigating to https://aka.ms/devicelogin in your browser. For more information, see the Azure CLI login page.

  4. For seamless commanding, set the organization and project as defaults in configuration.

    az devops configure --defaults organization=https://dev.azure.com/contoso project=contoso

Download and install Git

Windows

Download and install Git for Windows , which includes the Git Credential Manager to easily connect to Azure Repos.

macOS

Use Homebrew to install and set up Git.

brew install git

Linux and Unix

Use your distribution's package management system to download and install Git. For example, on Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install git

Refer to the list of install commands for the most up to date instructions for your Linux distribution.

Create your local repo

Create a local Git repo for your code. If your code is already in a local Git repo, you can skip this step.

  1. Navigate to the folder where your code is on the command line:

    cd /home/fabrikam/fiber
    
  2. Create a Git repo on your machine to store your code. You will connect this repo to Azure Repos in the next section.

    git init .
    
  3. Commit your code into the local Git repo.

    git add --all
    git commit -m "first commit of my code"
    

Create your Git repo in Azure Repos

  1. Create a new Git repo in Azure Repos for your code.

    az repos create --name FabrikamApp
    
  2. Copy the clone URL from the remote URL attribute in the JSON output.

    $ az repos create --name FabrikamApp
    
    [
     {          
         "defaultBranch": null,
         "id": "fa3ee42f-519d-4633-8e31-4a84de343ca3",
         "isFork": null,
         "name": "FabrikamApp",
         "parentRepository": null,
         "project": {
           "abbreviation": null,
           "description": "This is the pipeline project for github repo",
           "id": "fa3ee42f-519d-4633-8e31-4a84de343ca4",
           "lastUpdateTime": "2019-04-09T08:32:15.977Z",
           "name": "Fabrikam",
           "revision": 255,
           "state": "wellFormed",
           "url": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikops2/_apis/projects/fa3ee42f-519d-4633-8e31-4a84de343ca4",
           "visibility": "public"
         },
         "remoteUrl": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikops2/Fabrikam/_git/FabrikamApp",
         "size": 0,
         "sshUrl": "fabrikops2@vs-ssh.visualstudio.com:v3/fabrikops2/Fabrikam/FabrikamApp",
         "url": "https://dev.azure.com/fabrikops2/fa3ee42f-519d-4633-8e31-4a84de343ca4/_apis/git/repositories/fa3ee42f-519d-4633-8e31-4a84de343ca3",
         "validRemoteUrls": null
       }
     ]
    
  3. Connect your local repo to the Git repo in Azure Repos using the copied clone URL in the git remote command:

    git remote add origin https://dev.azure.com/fabrikops2/Fabrikam/_git/FabrikamApp
    

Push your code

Before pushing your code, set up authentication with credential managers or SSH before continuing.

git push origin main

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