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Hi there,

I have a manual process I am looking to automate.

This process consists of

1) Going to a DevOps Project

2) Go to Repos > Files > a sub sub folder and Create a New Branch from here, based on main

3) Commit the file

4) Submit a pull request

This, when committed and the pull is done from this folder, starts a pipeline.

I have a flow which currently

1) does a GET request on

https://dev.azure.com/<org name>/<project name>/_apis/git/repositories/<repo id>/refs?filter=heads/main&api-version=5.1

which brings back the objectID for main on this repo.

2) Using the objectID from the GET, does a POST on

https://dev.azure.com/<org name>/<proj name>/_apis/git/repositories/<repo id>/pushes?api-version=5.1

with body of

{
 "refUpdates": [
 {
 "name": "refs/heads/<name of new branch>",
 "oldObjectId": "<objectID from GET command"
 }
 ],
 "commits": [
 {
 "comment": "<any name we give the file>",
 "changes": [
 {
 "changeType": "add",
 "item": {
 "path": "/<Filename>.json"
 },
 "newContent": {
"content": '<our JSON content>',
"contentType": "rawtext"}
 }
 ]
 }
 ]
}

3) Then does a pull request on this file using POST of

https://dev.azure.com/<org ID>/<proj name>/_apis/git/repositories/<repo ID>/pullrequests?api-version=5.1

with a body of

{
 "sourceRefName": "refs/heads/<our branch name we set in the POST>",
 "targetRefName": "refs/heads/main",
 "title": "<our title>",
 "description": "",
 "reviewers": [
 {
 "id": "<the ID for our approval team>"
 }
 ]
}

The above 'works' in as much as it does the steps I think I am telling it, and creates a branch for me, adds the file and it's content, and does the pull request.

However, the instructions I have been given for DevOps itself, show that I need to go to a sub-path within the repo I am using, of 4 folders down in the files area of Repos, and create a new branch in there; then add the file to this branch, Commit it and do the pull request from here. This then, when the pull request is approved, triggers a pipeline.

I just don't know where I can specify this sub sub folder for the branch to be created, and then have the file created on this branch from a sub sub folder.... and then do the pull request on this branch into main.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks

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