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I've been using the Azure DevOps REST API to download repositories as zip files (for use with Conan, the C / C++ package manager.)

I use the following endpoint:

https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/git/repositories/{repositoryId}/items?scopePath=/&recursionLevel=full&includeContentMetadata=false&versionDescriptor.versionOptions=0&versionDescriptor.versionType=0&versionDescriptor.version={commitOrBranchToDownload}&$format=zip

This works well for retrieving the files, but when I extract the zip file, all files are directly in the root with no enclosing folder. (This causes problems with Conan, which expects an enclosing folder to appear when extracting the package.)

Is there a way to configure the API call, or any setting in Azure DevOps itself, to include an enclosing folder in the zip file? Ideally, this would be a folder with the same name as the repository or branch being downloaded. I'm looking for a solution that doesn't require manually creating a folder for each download on the client side.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

dvrm
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