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With Follow change request templates enabled, Azure DevOps repositories never supplied a template to the description generator because their source-control provider had no template reader. Addresses #22871.
Change
Add a local Git reader following the GitLab implementation: inspect committed regular blobs in .azuredevops, .vsts, docs, then the repository root, accepting case-insensitive pull_request_template.md and .txt names. Read from the primary remote's locally recorded default branch even when the PR targets a release branch. Keep the same absent, blank, bounded-output and truncation behavior as GitLab. No Azure API calls or credentials are needed for template discovery.
Limits: local remote HEAD metadata must be available and current; otherwise discovery returns no template. Branch-specific templates are outside this fix, matching the default-template scope of the GitLab reader. Tree listings and template content remain bounded. cannot-verify azure live; evidence uses temporary local Git repositories, with external Azure operations mocked. No UI behavior changed, so screenshots are not applicable.
Verification
Validation:
Before: both fixture test files failed, 10/10 tests, because the Azure reader was absent and GitManager passed no template.
After: vp test run apps/server/src/sourceControl/azureDevOpsChangeRequestTemplate.test.ts apps/server/src/git/GitManager.azureDevOpsTemplate.test.ts — 2 files passed, 16 tests passed.
The GitManager fixture runs the real create_pr path with the setting enabled and checks the template passed to the description generator, including release targets with different or missing templates.
Targeted lint and Azure DevOps/server package typechecks passed.
Codex GPT-6.1-Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 code reviews: MERGE after correcting the default-branch source.
Model and harness: GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code; independent review by GPT-6.1-Sol/Codex and Claude Opus 5.5/Claude Agent.
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Azure DevOps PR generation will now follow repository templates with bounded, read-only Git access. Because template following is enabled by default, this changes default generated descriptions and requires human confirmation.
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The Azure DevOps source-control provider now reads pull-request templates from the repository’s remote default branch. Template detection searches supported locations, filters file types, limits content size, and returns no template when detection fails.
Changes: Azure DevOps template discovery
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Summary
Detect and expose templates packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/azureDevOpsChangeRequestTemplate.ts, packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.ts, packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.test.ts
The provider resolves the primary remote’s symbolic HEAD and passes the default branch to the detector. The detector searches supported locations, selects regular .md or .txt files, limits reads to 8,000 bytes, and returns no template for blank content or failures.
Verify template selection and filtering packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.git.test.ts
Tests cover default-branch selection, location precedence, case-insensitive names, missing or invalid templates, truncation, and an unknown remote default branch.
sequenceDiagram
participant SourceControlProvider
participant SourceControlHost
participant TemplateDetector
SourceControlProvider->>SourceControlHost: Resolve primary remote default branch
SourceControlProvider->>TemplateDetector: Detect template from branch ref
TemplateDetector->>SourceControlHost: List candidate paths and read selected blob
SourceControlHost-->>TemplateDetector: Tree entries and blob content
TemplateDetector-->>SourceControlProvider: Optional template
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Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 5fff2
No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. The template reader retains the intended fallback, and the test no longer requires filesystem symlink privileges.
Pre-merge checks: 4
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Title check
The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reading Azure DevOps pull request templates.
Description check
The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It identifies the issue, implementation details, limitations, tests, and verification results.
Linked Issues check
Issue #22871 requires Azure DevOps template discovery when the setting is enabled. AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.readChangeRequestTemplate now resolves the primary remote's local default-branch r…
Out of Scope Changes check
The provider and detector implement issue #22871. The temporary-repository tests verify the required discovery behavior and the create_pr integration boundary. The reviewed change summary shows no u…
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Explanation
Issue #22871 requires Azure DevOps template discovery when the setting is enabled. AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.readChangeRequestTemplate now resolves the primary remote's local default-branch ref and invokes the detector. The detector searches the required locations, accepts case-insensitive .md and .txt names, reads regular committed blobs, preserves bounded and truncation behavior, and returns no template for missing or invalid metadata. Tests cover default-branch reads for release targets, precedence, case handling, invalid entries, truncation, and unknown remote HEAD metadata.
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Explanation
The provider and detector implement issue #22871. The temporary-repository tests verify the required discovery behavior and the create_pr integration boundary. The reviewed change summary shows no unrelated product behavior or UI changes.
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@packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.git.test.ts:
- Around line 147-150: Update the test setup around NodeFS.symlinkSync to create
the pull request template symlink as a mode 120000 entry in the Git index,
targeting template.md, so the test does not require operating-system symlink
privileges.
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Create the symlink in the Git index instead.
If a Windows developer lacks symlink privileges and Developer Mode, NodeFS.symlinkSync can fail before this test checks the provider. Create a mode 120000 entry in the Git index to test the committed symlink without requiring an operating-system symlink. (learn.microsoft.com)
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@packages/source-control-azure-devops/src/server/AzureDevOpsSourceControlProvider.git.test.ts
around lines 147 - 150:
Update the test setup around NodeFS.symlinkSync to create the pull request
template symlink as a mode 120000 entry in the Git index, targeting template.md,
so the test does not require operating-system symlink privileges.
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Symlink fixtures written to the filesystem fail on Windows hosts without
symlink rights; an index mode commits the same tree entry everywhere.
Folds the case-insensitive path rows into the precedence table and
asserts the exact truncated template.
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Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
Risk: refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD may be stale or missing.
The reader runs git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD. Git does not update this ref on git fetch. If the remote's default branch is renamed, the reader keeps using the old branch. The PR objectives accept this as a documented limit, so this is not a defect. The code does swallow every failure, including a missing ref, into Option.none(). Users get no signal about why a template was not found. A debug-level log at the orElseSucceed site would help diagnosis.
Optional: log the failure before it is mapped to Option.none().
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
these checks fail on 5fff287, also when run again: Check, Test Web, and the rework changed nothing:
No code change: the failing checks are not caused by this PR. Test Web failed on one test, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.browser.test.tsx ('a flick that scrolls the tab strip to its left edge keeps the thread, a swipe from the edge goes back'), and Check fails only because it requires every job to pass. Reproduced locally with vp test run on the branch head: it failed 3 of 3 runs. Ran the same command on current origin/main (c82e1ba), where RightPanelTabs.tsx and its test are identical to the branch's copies, and it fails there too. This PR changes only four files in packages/source-control-azure-devops and nothing in apps/web. The failure belongs to main (the test or its component was last changed there by #33396), so the branch head is unchanged. The Azure DevOps template reader, its tests and the Windows-safe symlink fixture from the previous round stand as pushed.
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.
On each commit, created a synthetic repository with a committed .azuredevops/pull_request_template.md containing Context and Verification headings; configured an Azure DevOps origin, origin/main, and remote HEAD; committed a feature-branch change and configured its upstream; opened the real app and clicked Create PR. Follow change request templates retained its enabled default. Both runs stopped at the missing Azure CLI error before description generation.
The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:
the fix is written and reviewed, but proving it needs something no worker has:
Permanent blocker: an authenticated Azure DevOps account with access to a repository is required and was unavailable. Azure CLI and its Azure DevOps extension also need installation. The generated description behavior, including targeting another branch, remains unverified on both commits.
Environment: Linux web client, Chromium, 1440×900, light theme; fresh isolated databases, synthetic projects and Replay threads, authenticated Azure CLI, and real OpenCode gpt-6-luna description generation.
Steps: commit distinctive Template Context and Template Verification headings in .azuredevops/pull_request_template.md on main, commit a different template on release, fetch both branches and set origin/HEAD to main, then create committed feature branches. With Follow change request templates enabled, create PRs through Git actions targeting main and release and open their generated descriptions.
Alternative template directories (.vsts, docs and repository root), .txt files, case-insensitive matching and directory precedence were not exercised; this reproduction uses .azuredevops/pull_request_template.md.
Empty or missing templates, symlinks, oversized listings/templates, Git-error fallbacks and disabling Follow change request templates were not exercised; this proof covers populated default-branch templates with the setting enabled.
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Problem
With Follow change request templates enabled, Azure DevOps repositories never supplied a template to the description generator because their source-control provider had no template reader. Addresses #22871.
Change
Add a local Git reader following the GitLab implementation: inspect committed regular blobs in
.azuredevops,.vsts,docs, then the repository root, accepting case-insensitivepull_request_template.mdand.txtnames. Read from the primary remote's locally recorded default branch even when the PR targets a release branch. Keep the same absent, blank, bounded-output and truncation behavior as GitLab. No Azure API calls or credentials are needed for template discovery.Scope and approval
Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/22871
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow.
Limits: local remote HEAD metadata must be available and current; otherwise discovery returns no template. Branch-specific templates are outside this fix, matching the default-template scope of the GitLab reader. Tree listings and template content remain bounded. cannot-verify azure live; evidence uses temporary local Git repositories, with external Azure operations mocked. No UI behavior changed, so screenshots are not applicable.
Verification
Validation:
vp test run apps/server/src/sourceControl/azureDevOpsChangeRequestTemplate.test.ts apps/server/src/git/GitManager.azureDevOpsTemplate.test.ts— 2 files passed, 16 tests passed.create_prpath with the setting enabled and checks the template passed to the description generator, including release targets with different or missing templates.Model and harness: GPT-6.1-Sol through the Codex harness in T3 Code; independent review by GPT-6.1-Sol/Codex and Claude Opus 5.5/Claude Agent.
Fixes #22871