Azure DevOps CLI to the rescue

I need to migrate a lot of repositories from one Azure DevOps to another. Migration! Don’t ask why, please. Let’s assume it was much more simple than other options.

I was thinking that I will have to do it manually, but I found Azure DevOps CLI. Hurray!

Setup

az devops and az repos are inside az do the easiest way is to log in using az login and forget about other options ;)

Then we can set up default organization and project using:

az devops configure --defaults organization=https://dev.azure.com/MyOrg project=MyProject

Find all repositories

The first query was quite easy. I need to find all repositories in the old organization:

 az repos list --organization https://dev.azure.com/MyOldOrg --project OldProject -o tsv --query "[].name"

Copy

From the above list choose all needed projects and declare them as an array in bash:

export repoArray=(
  repo1
  repo2
  repo3
)

Now we can copy using create and import. But before you start coping generate PAT token for GIT for your old Azure DevOps. Just go to https://dev.azure.com/MyOldOrg/_usersSettings/tokens

for REPO_NAME in "${repoArray[@]}"
do
    az repos create --name $REPO_NAME --project "NewProject"
    az repos import create \
        --git-source-url "https://dev.azure.com/MyOldOrg/_git/$REPO_NAME" \
        --repository $REPO_NAME \
        --project "NewProject" \
        --requires-authorization \
        --user-name piotr.stapp
done

Create build pipeline

Now the funny part. If you are using YAML files for a build we can create build definition using:

az pipelines create --name $REPO_NAME \
    --yaml-path 'build.yml' \
    --repository-type tfsgit \
    --branch develop \
    --project "NewProject" \
    --repository $REPO_NAME