Fork a repo from one Azure DevOps Org to another Org using the API-CodePudding

Is it possible to fork a repo that exists in a Private Project of the SourceOrganization into another Project of DestOrganization using Azure DevOps API?

CodePudding user response：

No this is not available.

The question you linked to will allow you to create a one-time mirror of another repository, but you won't have any features like pull requests, diff/merge etc.

You can perform an import request to create a clone in another organization, but it completely ignores the relationship between the repos and you can't perform any pull requests across the organisations.

The code is two-step:

Create a temporary endpoint:

POST https://dev.azure.com/{{ORG}}/{{PROJECT}}/_apis/serviceendpoint/endpoints

{
    "authorization":{
        "parameters":{
            "password":"{{PAT WITH ENOUGH PERMISSIONS}}",
            "username":"."
        },
        "scheme":"UsernamePassword"
    },
    "name":"{{RANDOM UNIQUE NAME}}",
    "type":"git",
    "url":"{{CLONE URL OR SOURCE REPO}}"
}

which will respond with an endpoint ID:

{
   "data":{},
   "id":"72d574f0-05f1-481f-af15-f78579b374d4",
   "name":"wv1w1",
   "type":"git"
   ...
}

Then create the import:

POST https://dev.azure.com/{{ORG}}/{{PROJECT}}/_apis/git/repositories/{{NEW REPO NAME}}/importRequests

{
   "parameters":{ 
      "deleteServiceEndpointAfterImportIsDone":true,
      "gitSource":{
          "overwrite":false,
          "url":"{{CLONE URL OF SOURCE REPO}}"
      },
      "tfvcSource":null,
      "serviceEndpointId":"{{ID FROM PREVIOUS REQUEST}}"
    }
}

It also can't be used to sync sources between different organisations.

You could cobble something together with a Azure Pipeline that pushes the changes from one org to another. Again, no "fork", but really just a sync.