Azure DevOps Tips: How to set default branch name for new repos?
Recently Azure DevOps came up with a new feature of setting the default branch name for new code repos. Based on my experience, most of the projects or organizations use the master branch to refer to the official release history (which is deployed into production), and the develop branch serves as the integration branch for features.
Azure DevOps Git Repositories by default the branch name is set to master, and whenever we create new repositories, it takes that as default. In a nutshell, if organizations who are following Gitflow Workflow having the default branch as a master doesn’t work well, which means as part of creating a new repository need to follow a two-step process where first they need to create a repo and then navigate to branches of the project à select the branch of your preference and click on the three-dot icon to set as the default branch.
How to set the Default branch name for new repos in Azure DevOps?
With the new feature announcement from the Azure DevOps team now we can set the default branch name for new repositories at both the Organization level and at the Project level, just like how we set policies in Azure DevOps. Below are the steps to be followed to set the default branch name in Azure DevOps:
- Navigate to Organisation Settings/ Project settings based on the preference to set the default branch in your Azure DevOps.
- Once the below setting is turned On, we can now set the default branch name for new repositories within the Azure DevOps project.
- Now, let’s verify by creating a new repository. As part of creating a repository, it will show the default branch we had set in the previous step using Project Settings.
Originally published at https://rajurh.blogspot.com on October 26, 2020.
