is it possible to checkout TFVC repository on azure yml pipeline(azure git)?-CodePudding

i am creating YAML pipeline which stored on azure git repo, however i need to checkout TFVC Repo which exist on the same project by referencing as below,

   resources: 
   repositories: 
   - repository: Shared 
     name: Playground/Shared 
     type: tfvc 
     ref: master #branch name

i know we can checkout azure Git, GitHub, Bitbucket repos. could some one clarify whether we can refer or not.

CodePudding user response：

YAML pipeline does not support TFVC currently.

As workaround you can migrate TFVC to Git.

You can also create a classic UI build pipeline instead of YAML pipeline. TFVC is supported on classic UI pipeline.

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Update:

To bring the code from tfsvc repo into build agent.

you can use TFVC Get items rest api to get the items. Add a script task in your pipeline to call the rest api and save the items in the build agent.

Please check about below example powershell script: To get a Personal access token. Please refer to document here.

 $url = "$(System.TeamFoundationCollectionUri)$(System.TeamProject)/_apis/tfvc/items?scopePath=path&recursionLevel=full&api-version=5.1"

 $PAT= "Personal access token"
 $base64AuthInfo= [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$($PAT)"))
 $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method Get -Header @{Authorization = "Basic $base64AuthInfo"} 

 $files= $result.value | where { !$_.isFolder} | select path, url

 foreach($file in $files){
    $path = "$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)\"   $file.path.Substring(2)
    New-Item -Path  $path -ItemType File -Force
    Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $file.url -Method get -Header @{Authorization = "Bearer $env:SYSTEM_ACCESSTOKEN"} -OutFile $path
  }

Above script call the Get Items Api and get the items url and path($files= $result.value | where { !$_.isFolder} | select path, url)

Then get each item and save to $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory).

For example if my scopePath is $/MyProject/, then the items will be save to $(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)/MyProject/