Permissions Required for GIT-TF?

Question

I am the admin for my company's TFS2012 server. I have gotten GIT-TF working for myself, however the other developers at my company are having permission problems. They have access to the project in question as a contributor, but performing a clone of the project is yielding permission problems. Below is a snapshot of the cmd and error:

git-tf clone <servername> <projectname>
Connecting to TFS...
Username: <username>
Password: 
Password: 
Password: 
git-tf: Access denied connecting to TFS server <servername> <authenticating as <username>>

When I perform the same command, it doesn't ask for my username and password, presumably because I am logged into Windows under a user with permission.

Thank you for any assistance.

Are they connecting from a non-domain joined machine? If so, are they using the following format for username: _\_? — James Tupper, Oct 07 '13 at 22:19
Unfortunately that didn't help me either. I had our IT make a test user for me, logged him into a VM and I had no problems, only gave him "contributor" access to the project. — bruestle2, Oct 21 '13 at 12:26

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '13 at 14:17

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Did you make sure to include the collection name in the url passed to the git-tf command? My company had problems exactly like you describe and that was the fix.

This: git-tf clone http://<server>:<port>/tfs/<collection name> $/<project name>
Not this: git-tf clone http://<server>:<port>/tfs/ $/<project name>

Hope this helps.

answered Oct 31 '13 at 14:17

mpete510

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if project is on `dev.azure.com\[company]\[division]\$/[division]` what is the server, the port and the collection name? there is any place on Visual Studio or on Azure Devops where we can see that information? – Ninita Apr 10 '19 at 15:18

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 08 '13 at 07:28

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I had the same problem. Maybe they configured a proxy with the HTTP_PROXY environment variable, and your TFS server is local and the proxy should not be used to access it. It gave me the same symptom.

answered Oct 08 '13 at 07:28

Guillaume Collic

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score 2 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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I had the same problem. Solution was:
1. Use https://github.com/new/import instead as described here.
2. Create and pass personal access token as described here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Oct 21 '16 at 10:31

Alexander Demko

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I needed personal access token in order to access TFS server using git-tf on Mac. It didn't work with my regular password. – Paulius Liekis Mar 02 '17 at 20:08

Permissions Required for GIT-TF?

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