How to set default branch policies in azure devops

Question

Is it possible to set branch policies across all repo's? In other words, When creating a branch, a default branch policy is already set for master.

Just searching for this myself, cannot believe this is not possible.... — Phil, Jun 21 '19 at 08:55

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '20 at 12:58

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It's been changed now. So for others who look for it, you can find it there:

answered Sep 28 '20 at 12:58

codeedward

How is this voted as the correct answer? It doesn't address the question at all. – JSON Jul 12 '23 at 15:06

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '20 at 06:30

Indeed as @Thomas Harris mentioned in the comment above, you can set it for all repos in a single project via

And then you can select whether this applies to the default branch or a specific branch name pattern.

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '18 at 07:39

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Right now you can't. You could listen to events in Azure DevOps for project creation for example and then set the policy yourself. For some information how to start see here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/create-pr-status-server-with-azure-functions?view=vsts

answered Sep 26 '18 at 07:39

Rob Bos

@jessehouwing has documented a way to achieve this through the API: https://jessehouwing.net/azure-repos-git-configuring-standard-policies-on-repositories/ – mhu Feb 04 '20 at 10:22
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It is now possible to set global branch policies in the settings area for the project. Although I cannot find good documentation for this process. – Thomas Harris May 27 '20 at 06:33
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Hi Thomas, you can find it under "cross-repo policies" and yes, it is poorly documented. Thanks for pointing that out. I will pass that along as feedback – julie-ng May 29 '20 at 06:32

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