Accessing Azure DevOps Git repositories using SSH
Azure DevOps Server supports three secure ways to connect to your Git repositories—the first two work over HTTPS and the third option uses SSH:
- Git Credential Manager
- Personal Access Token
- SSH Public Keys
Git credential manager is the preferred option, since it lets you use the same credentials that you use with Azure DevOps Server web portal and also supports multi-factor authentication. In addition to supporting multi-factor authentication with Azure DevOps Server, the credential managers also support two-factor authentication for GitHub repositories. Once authenticated, the credential manager creates and caches a personal access token for future connections to the repo. Git commands that connect to this account won't prompt for user credentials until the token expires or is revoked through Azure DevOps Server. If you are accessing your Azure DevOps Server Git repositories through Team Explorer in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ...
