Adding external users to Azure DevOps git repository and deny in multiple repositories isn't working

Question

I have gone through so many blogs and none of them were helpful for my use case. I have a few external users and I added them all in a Permission group and denied "Read" permissions all of them in security section. Then I went to the repo where I want to add the group and gave the necessary permissions (read, contribute, create branch, etc) The good thing is, I get "You dont have access" to all the repositories, but along with the repo where I need access. Tried everything, inheritance permissions, removed the group and gave individual access, nothing worked. Please can someone help me or at least help me know if there is a solution for this?

Answer 1

Honestly, none of these answers work, I tried so many things. So, after 1237 tries, it worked.

• The external User already had Basic (nothing changed here)
• Make sure this is set- Go to Project Settings --> Permissions --> (Group you created) --> Permissions Tab --> ALLOW "View Project-level information"
• Go to Repositories --> Security section, remove that permission group.
• Now go to the intended repo where you want to grant access --> Add that group and ALLOW necessary permissions(Read, Contribute, Contribute to Pull requests, etc)

This is all I did and works like a champ.