Cross Search in all repositories and branches in Azure Devops Repos

Question

Azure has very nice function to facilitate cross search through all repositories:

I have noticed that after I did search for a keyword which was in one of the branches it was not found. How can I cross search also through all the branches from all repositories?

Answer 1

You can run the following PowerShell scripts to update the searchable branches via REST API.

$token = "{PAT}"
$token = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(":$($token)"))
$url="https://dev.azure.com/{Org name}/{Project name}/_apis/policy/Configurations/{Configuration ID}?api-version=7.1-preview.1"
$body = @'
{
    "type": {
        "id": "0517f88d-4ec5-4343-9d26-9930ebd53069"
    },
    "isBlocking": false,
    "isEnabled": false,
    "settings": {
        "scope": [
            {
                "repositoryId": "{Your repo ID}"
            }
        ],
        "searchBranches": [
            "refs/heads/Branch1",
            "refs/heads/branch2",
            "refs/heads/Branch3"
        ]
    }
}
'@
$head = @{ Authorization =" Basic $token" }
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $url -Method PUT -Headers $head -Body $body -ContentType application/json

• PAT: Personal access token
• Org name: Your organization name
• Project name: Your project name
• Configuration ID: The configuration ID. You can get it by running REST API Configurations - List or check the network trace when editing the searchable branch from UI.
• repositoryId: The ID of your repo. You can get it when you run REST API Configurations - List. Or you can see it from the URL when you edit searchable branches from UI.
• searchBranches: The branches you want to search. Set it as [ ] if you want to remove all branches except the default beanch.