Azure DevOps Fork Repos between two Organization

Azure DevOps Fork Repos between two Organization

This weekend I embarked on a topic a bit foreign to myself, on the surface seemed a bit simple.

The idea is to fork my Azure DevOps Repo to a different organization and push changes between them.

Bad news DevOps doesn’t allow to fork Repos to a different organization, you have only the capability to fork to a different Projects within the same Organization.

I’m pretty much sure there are so many other ways to solve this issue, but this is the one that I found to be easy to implement.

1. Import Repo to the new Organization

   1. Remember here you have to generate a personal token to be able to import the Repo

   2. you have to be a member of the new organization as well

2. This might take a few minutes depending on the size of your project, once its complete you will receive a confirmation email, or just refresh it after few minutes

3. So far all looks good, you can clone the solution in your new Organization, branch and do all the amazing things that git provides.

   1. Few things to remember here:

      1. Your changes are merged in the master of your new organization

      2. Question is what can you do to push your changes from the new Organization to the to the Previous Organization where you have imported your repo?

This will give you the capability to push and fetch changes from the Organization that the code has been generated.