How can I connect to a OneBranch repo and read a file in .net?

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I want to connect to a onebranch/git repo and read a file, possibly make edit and checkin. My question is how can we do that? How will user authentication work in this case?

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 28 '20 at 09:15

You should first connect to Azure DevOps Server or Azure DevOps Service.

Personal Access Token authentication for REST services

public static void PersonalAccessTokenRestSample()
{
    // Create instance of VssConnection using Personal Access Token
    VssConnection connection = new VssConnection(new Uri(collectionUri), new VssBasicCredential(string.Empty, pat));
}

OAuth Authentication for REST services

public static void OAuthSample()
{
    // Create instance of VssConnection using OAuth Access token
    VssConnection connection = new VssConnection(new Uri(collectionUri), new VssOAuthAccessTokenCredential(accessToken));
}

More details for Auth please refer Auth samples for Azure DevOps Services.

Then you could connect Git Repo and select a Branch to list files or a file. A code snippet from similar question: How to list all the files that are in TFS GIT repo using REST API

List<GitRepository> repositories = await client.GetRepositoriesAsync(true); // or use GetRepositoryAsync()
var repo = repositories.FirstOrDefault(r => r.Name == "Some.Repo.Name");

GitVersionDescriptor descriptor = new GitVersionDescriptor()
{
    VersionType = GitVersionType.Branch,
    Version = "develop",
    VersionOptions = GitVersionOptions.None
};

List<GitItem> items = await client.GetItemsAsync(repo.Id, scopePath: "/", recursionLevel: VersionControlRecursionType.Full, versionDescriptor: descriptor);

More detail samples showing how to extend and integrate with Azure DevOps Server and Azure DevOps Services using the .NET client libraries.

How can I connect to a OneBranch repo and read a file in .net?

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