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azrepos: add commands to manager user bindings
Add commands to manually manager the user/org bindings for the Azure Repos host provider.
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# Azure Repos: Access tokens and Accounts | ||
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## Different credential types | ||
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The Azure Repos host provider supports creating multiple types of credential: | ||
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- Azure DevOps personal access tokens | ||
- Microsoft identity OAuth tokens (experimental) | ||
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### Azure DevOps personal access tokens | ||
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Historically, the only option supported by the Azure Repos host provider was | ||
Azure DevOps Personal Access Tokens (PATs). | ||
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These PATs are only used by Azure DevOps, and must be [managed through the Azure | ||
DevOps user settings page](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/use-personal-access-tokens-to-authenticate?view=azure-devops&tabs=preview-page). | ||
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PATs have a limited lifetime and new tokens must be created once they expire. In | ||
Git Credential Manager, when a PAT expired (or was manually revoked) this | ||
resulted in a new authentication prompt. | ||
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### Microsoft identity OAuth tokens (experimental) | ||
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"Microsoft identity OAuth token" is the generic term for OAuth-based access | ||
tokens issued by Azure Active Directory for either Work and School Accounts | ||
(AAD tokens) or Personal Accounts (Microsoft Account/MSA tokens). | ||
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Azure DevOps supports Git authentication using Microsoft identity OAuth tokens | ||
as well as PATs. Microsoft identity OAuth tokens created by Git Credential | ||
Manager are scoped to Azure DevOps only. | ||
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Unlike PATs, Microsoft identity OAuth tokens get automatically refreshed and | ||
renewed as long as you are actively using them to perform Git operations. | ||
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These tokens are also securely shared with other Microsoft developer tools | ||
including the Visual Studio IDE and Azure CLI. This means that as long as you're | ||
using Git or one of these tools with the same account, you'll never need to | ||
re-authenticate due to expired tokens! | ||
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#### User accounts | ||
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In versions of Git Credential Manager that support Microsoft identity OAuth | ||
tokens, the user account used to authenticate for a particular Azure DevOps | ||
organization will now be remembered. | ||
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The first time you clone, fetch or push from/to an Azure DevOps organization you | ||
will be prompted to sign-in and select a user account. Git Credential Manager | ||
will remember which account you used and continue to use that for all future | ||
remote Git operations (clone/fetch/push). An account is said to be "bound" to | ||
an Azure DevOps organization. | ||
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--- | ||
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**Note:** If GCM is set to use PAT credentials, this account will **NOT** be | ||
used and you will continue to be prompted to select a user account to renew the | ||
credential. This may change in the future. | ||
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--- | ||
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Normally you won't need to worry about managing which user accounts Git | ||
Credential Manager is using as this is configured automatically when you first | ||
authenticate for a particular Azure DevOps organziation. | ||
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In advanced scenarios (such as using multiple accounts) you can interact with | ||
and manage remembered user accounts using the 'azure-repos' provider command: | ||
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```shell | ||
git-credential-manager-core azure-repos [ list | bind | unbind | ... ] <options> | ||
``` | ||
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##### Listing remembered accounts | ||
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You can list all bound user accounts by Git Credential Manager for each Azure | ||
DevOps organization using the `list` command: | ||
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```shell | ||
$ git-credential-manager-core azure-repos list | ||
contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
fabrikam: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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In the above example, the `contoso` Azure DevOps organization is associated with | ||
the `[email protected]` user account, while the `fabrikam` organization is | ||
associated to the `[email protected]` user account. | ||
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Global "bindings" apply to all remote Git operations for the current computer | ||
user profile and are stored in `~/.gitconfig` or `%USERPROFILE%\.gitconfig`. | ||
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##### Using different accounts within a repository | ||
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If you generally use one account for an Azure DevOps organization, the default | ||
global bindings will be sufficient. However, if you wish to use a different | ||
user account for an organization in a particular repository you can use a local | ||
binding. | ||
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Local account bindings only apply within a single repository and are stored in | ||
the `.git/config` file. If there are local bindings in a repository you can show | ||
them with the `list` command: | ||
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```shell | ||
~/myrepo$ git-credential-manager-core azure-repos list | ||
contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
(local) -> [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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Within the `~/myrepo` repository, the `[email protected]` account will be | ||
used by Git and GCM for the `contoso` Azure DevOps organization. | ||
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To create a local binding, use the `bind` command with the `--local` option when | ||
inside a repository: | ||
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```shell | ||
~/myrepo$ git-credential-manager-core azure-repos bind --local contoso [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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```diff | ||
contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
+ (local) -> [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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##### Forget an account | ||
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To have Git Credential Manager forget a user account, use the `unbind` command: | ||
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```shell | ||
git-credential-manager-core azure-repos unbind fabrikam | ||
``` | ||
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contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
- fabrikam: | ||
- (global) -> [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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In the above example, and global account binding for the `fabrikam` organization | ||
will be forgotten. The next time you need to renew a PAT (if using PATs) or | ||
perform any remote Git operation (is using Azure tokens) you will be prompted | ||
to authenticate again. | ||
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To forget or remove a local binding, within the repository run the `unbind` | ||
command with the `--local` option: | ||
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```shell | ||
~/myrepo$ git-credential-manager-core azure-repos unbind --local contoso | ||
``` | ||
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```diff | ||
contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
- (local) -> [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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##### Using different accounts for specific Git remotes | ||
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As well as global and local user account bindings, you can instruct Git | ||
Credential Manager to use a specific user account for an individual Git remotes | ||
within the same local repository. | ||
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To show which accounts are being used for each Git remote in a repository use | ||
the `list` command with the `--show-remotes` option: | ||
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```shell | ||
~/myrepo$ git-credential-manager-core azure-repos list --show-remotes | ||
contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
origin: | ||
(fetch) -> (inherit) | ||
(push) -> (inherit) | ||
fabrikam: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
``` | ||
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In the above example, the `~/myrepo` repository has a single Git remote named | ||
`origin` that points to the `contoso` Azure DevOps organziation. There is no | ||
user account specifically associated with the `origin` remote, so the global | ||
user account binding for `contoso` will be used (the global binding is | ||
inherited). | ||
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To associate a user account with a particular Git remote you must manually edit | ||
the remote URL using `git config` commands to include the username in the | ||
[user information](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.1) part of | ||
the URL. | ||
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```shell | ||
git config --local remote.origin.url https://alice-alt%[email protected]/project/_git/repo | ||
``` | ||
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In the above example the `[email protected]` account is being set as the | ||
account to use for the `origin` Git remote. | ||
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--- | ||
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**Note:** All special characters must be URL encoded/escaped, for example `@` | ||
becomes `%40`. | ||
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--- | ||
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The `list --show-remotes` command will show the user account specified in the | ||
remote URL: | ||
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```shell | ||
~/myrepo$ git-credential-manager-core azure-repos list --show-remotes | ||
contoso: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
origin: | ||
(fetch) -> [email protected] | ||
(push) -> [email protected] | ||
fabrikam: | ||
(global) -> [email protected] | ||
``` |
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