Support of TFS repositories on self-hosted Azure Devops

[brumartins]

Hello everyone 👋

Your VS extension seems to be exactly what I've been looking for... so cool to get an url pointing to a file of your code when you need to share something with a colleague! 👍

I've installed the extension, but I get no additional entry in my Windows context menu to copy the link. We have no Git but TFS repositories. Self-hosted Azure Devops. Maybe that's because (self hosted) TFS repositories are not supported?

Thank you in advance 😀
Bruno

[veler]

Hi,

Thanks for your feedback. TFS isn't supported at all. Self-hosted Azure DevOps Git server should be supported, that said, I haven't been able to test it otherwise than unit tests because I don't have any under the hand.

I'll try to look for the TFS support. Meanwhile, can you please share an anonymous TFS repository URL that look like the one of your repository? That would help me to verify that the URL is parsed correctly.

Thank you in advance 😊

[brumartins]

For self-hosted Azure, the remote URL of a Git repository is :
http://yourserver:8080/tfs/YourCollection/YourProject/_git/YourProject

For a TFS repository, I'm not sure as my knowledge of the CLI is very poor. The Git URL above show the files of the codebase. So with the same logic, for a TFS repo, the URL might be :
http://yourserver:8080/tfs/YourCollection/YourProject/_versionControl

Good luck if you keep digging into TFS support, especially with the branch system being a total mess in my opinion 😫

Thanks!

[veler]

Thanks :) I'll try to look at this.

[dlyz]

Hi! We are using self-hosted Azure DevOps Server 2020 Update 1.

Currently the extension (in VS2022) generates URL in form of:

http://my.domain:8080/tfs/CollectionName/_git/_git/?path=valid/path/and/other/params

But the working one is:

http://my.domain:8080/tfs/CollectionName/ProjectName/_git/RepositoryName?path=valid/path/and/other/params

I think, the problem is here. Apparently it does not consider CollectionName.

As I understand, the raw URL of the repository is taken from the .git/config file. In my .git/config file origin remote URL is exactly:

http://my.domain:8080/tfs/CollectionName/ProjectName/_git/RepositoryName

So the valid code would be:

properties[Organization] = repositoryUri.Host;
properties[Collection] = repositoryUri.Segments[2].TrimEnd('/');
properties[Project] = repositoryUri.Segments[3].TrimEnd('/');
properties[Repository] = repositoryUri.Segments[5].TrimEnd('/');
properties[OrganizationUrl] = $"{repositoryUri.Scheme}://{repositoryUri.Authority}/tfs/";
properties[RepositoryUrl] = $"{properties[OrganizationUrl]}{properties[Collection]}/{properties[Project]}/_git/{properties[Repository]}/";
// or even simpler and universal
properties[RepositoryUrl] = repositoryUri.ToString() + "/";

[veler]

Hi @dlyz ,

Thank you for sharing this. I still don't have a self-hosted AzDO Server and still can't verify it by myself.
I built a new extension package that includes your suggested changes here : https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtZ0bJ-3VAYrga-TNYscev_5AFsFI9s?e=4wOSu9
Would you please be able to give it a try on VS 2022?
To do it, you will need to:

1. Uninstall the existing extension from VS 2022 (note that the package I shared isn't compatible with VS 2019).
2. Install the new one by downloading and double-clicking the .vsix file I shared above.

@brumartins , Hi :) Would you be able to test it too by any chance?

Thank you very much for your help! I really appreciate :)

[dlyz]

Thank you for quick response! I checked it and it works for me just fine.

There is one minor remark though. Currently the file opens, but the tree view does not show current file. If I add to the path parameter prefix / (%2F), tree view works as expected. So it will be perfect if you add this prefix probably here like this:

string url = $"{repositoryUrl}?path=/{relativePath.TrimStart('/')}&version=GC{commitId}&lineStyle=plain";

But it should be checked for cloud AzDO, I don't know, will it work there or not.

[veler]

Thank you @dlyz ! I pushed my changes with your latest proposal and I'm currently publishing the newest extension package on the VS Marketplace :) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EtienneBAUDOUX.CopyGitLink2022 version 1.4.4

You might need to uninstall the package I sent earlier and install it again from the Extensions menu in Visual Studio to make sure you get future updates.

Thank you again for your help with this ! I will keep this issue opened since it still doesn't cover TFS version control.

[brumartins]

Hi @veler, I've changed job and I'm no more working with a self-hosted Azure DevOps so I can't help anymore. But I can see things worked out, big thanks to both of you! 👍