Cloning all remote repositories from TFS

Question

Is there a way to clone all the master branches from all the projects uploaded under 1 account.

I have a requirement to backup all the code in master branch every week. Is there a way to accomplish this using git, Powershell or any other way?

Note that I required to do this task in a Windows environment.

Answer 1

You can do it with PowerShell and TFS Rest API.

First of all, get the projects with Projects - List API, then get to each project the repositories with Repositories - List API and clone only the master.

For example, a simple PowerShell script that do it:

$collection = "http://tfs-server:8080/tfs/collection-name"

$projectsUrl = "$collection/_apis/projects?api-version=4.0"
$projects = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $projectsUrl -Method Get -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType application/json

$projects.value.ForEach({

    $reposUrl = "$collectionurl/$($_.name)/_apis/git/repositories?api-version=4.0"
    $repos = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $reposUrl -Method Get -UseDefaultCredentials -ContentType application/json
    $repos.value.ForEach({
    git clone $_.remoteUrl --branch master --single-branch

    })
})

Answer 2

I did not see that feature directly in TFS, but if the VSTS API is also available for your on-premise TFS instance, you can:

• use the API to get all projects, and then all repositories for a given account
• use that list to loop and pull each master branch in a local clone of those repositories, that you can then archive.