Azure DevOps - Useful tips

Introduction

Here you’ll find tips to manage your Azure DevOps repositories from the CLI.

Azure Pull Requests

Open a Pull Request

Once all files are committed and commits are pushed, launch the following command:

Azure DevOps - Create PR

az repos pr create -s <source-branch> -t <target-branch>

The command will return an JSON payload response with all the information regarding the newly created Pull Request. There, you can check some useful information like the PR ID (you’ll need it later), description, status, etc…

Vote a Pull Request

If the policies applied to the PRs require them to be voted, you can also do it from the CLI:

Azure DevOps - PR voting

az repos pr set-vote --id <pr-id> --vote [approve, approve-with-suggestions, reject, reset, wait-for-author]

Choose the vote you see fit for the Pull Request current status.

Complete a Pull Request (merge changes)

Once reviewed the changes and accepted, you can complete the PR by updating its status with the following command:

Azure DevOps - Complete a PR

az repos pr update --id <pr-id> --status [abandoned, active, completed]

Choosing completed will automatically start the merging process to the target branch.