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JT_WhiteWater
Mar 30, 2023Copper Contributor
"Branches" not listed under "Repos" on <mysite>.visualstudio.com. How do I enable this?
Apologies for the newbie question. My Repos in Azure DevOps looks like this: How can I show the Branches option? Note we have a number of branches: Could anyone point me to the approp...
- Sep 21, 2023Hi, thanks for your question. My personal experience with Azure DevOps is only with _Git_ used for repos. But from your screenshot mentioning shelvesets and changesets, terms common in TFS type repos, I suspect your repo is set up as TFS. I am not familiar with how the ADO UI presents itself in TFS style repos, but the manual page for branching in TFS only mentions the use of Visual Studio for managing the TFS branches. I hope that helps a bit
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/tfvc/view-branch-hierarchy-team-project?view=azure-devops
JT_WhiteWater
Sep 20, 2023Copper Contributor
Anyone know anything about this topic at all? Anyone?
Sep 21, 2023
Hi, thanks for your question. My personal experience with Azure DevOps is only with _Git_ used for repos. But from your screenshot mentioning shelvesets and changesets, terms common in TFS type repos, I suspect your repo is set up as TFS. I am not familiar with how the ADO UI presents itself in TFS style repos, but the manual page for branching in TFS only mentions the use of Visual Studio for managing the TFS branches. I hope that helps a bit
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/tfvc/view-branch-hierarchy-team-project?view=azure-devops
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/tfvc/view-branch-hierarchy-team-project?view=azure-devops
- JT_WhiteWaterSep 21, 2023Copper Contributor
Thanks for the reflection on this, I am tending to agree with you. Maybe branches visibility in Azure Dev Ops is only for GIT repositories.
Thanks again.