Repo as Organizing element for multiple repos?

Question

I'm using Visual Studio 2022. I have multiple SharePoint On-Premises from web parts to application pages and I would like to organize them as independent repos under a single ADO Repo. Is this possible? I'd like to have a 'Sharepoint Assets' Repo, or other organizing element, in ADO which contains sub Repos: A1_WebPart, Report Application Page, A2_WebPArt, etc. The only thing in common is that they are deployed to our csharepoint farm. There need to be 3 branches for dev, qa and production and more than one person would require access to the top evel 'Sharepoint Assets' and whats beneath.

Answer 1

Hi Richard Ruth

In Azure DevOps (ADO), you cannot nest repositories (repos inside a repo) in the same way you might nest folders. Azure Repos does not support sub-repositories (like Git submodules or nested repos) within a single repository as a native feature.

However, you can organize your SharePoint projects in a clean and manageable way using multiple repositories under a single Azure DevOps Project.

Under this project: SharePointAssets, you can create multiple repositories, like:

• A1_WebPart
• Report_Application_Page
• A2_WebPart

Inside each repo, you can create the following branches:

• dev
• qa
• prod

Azure DevOps lets you set permissions per repo, folder, or branch. You can manage permissions at the project level or per repository, so:

• Grant everyone accesses to the entire project (SharePointAssets)
• Or restrict certain repos/branches if necessary

Hope this helps!

Please Let me know if you have any queries.

Answer 2

We've opted to use prefixes to help organize assets.