At work we came across a need to grant a single user access to only a single repository in Azure DevOps.
Here’s a short guide on how to achieve that with absolute minimal access.
Add the user to the organization
If the user does not exist in the organization already they need to be added:
- In Azure DevOps - go to: Organization settings
- Users
- Add users
- Access level: Basic (this is required for access to Git Repositories)
Granting access to the git repository
Then proceed to the Azure DevOps project where the git repository resides:
- Go to: Project settings
- Repos: Repositories
- Select/click the relevant repository
- Go to the Security tab
- Search for the user and grant/allow the relevant permissions (e.g. Read and/or Contribute)
Project level access
The user will also need access to View project-level information to be able to clone the repository:
- Go to: Project settings
- General: Permissions
- Create a new Group and add the user to this group
- Click the group and in the Permissions tab grant/allow the following: View project-level information
