Download a file from Azure git

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I'm trying to download a file with the Azure Devops Rest API using Powershell's Invoke-RestMethod. It always seems to download from the main branch and ignores my branch specification

The urls I'm using are

invoke-restmethod -uri "https://dev.azure.com/company/xxx/_apis/git/repositories/xxx/items?path=%2Fpom.xml&commitOrBranch=main&api-version=6.0" -Method Get -ContentType "application/text" -Headers $headers

and

invoke-restmethod -uri "https://dev.azure.com/company/xxx/_apis/git/repositories/xxx/items?path=%2Fpom.xml&commitOrBranch=branchName&api-version=6.0" -Method Get -ContentType "application/text" -Headers $headers

How do I specify the branch? The documentation doesn't provide any details

Does this answer your question? How to download a file in a branch from a Git repo using Azure DevOps REST Api? — Yan Sklyarenko
– Yan Sklyarenko, Commented Jul 26, 2021 at 15:18
This looks like an older version of the API which seems totally different. They seem to change the api frequently, and the documentation only includes a very brief description of the fields. — Peter Kronenberg
– Peter Kronenberg, Commented Jul 27, 2021 at 13:20

Satya V · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-06 06:41:09Z

You could try the below commandlet.

Just modified the below based on the question to download a pom.xml from the <BranchName>

invoke-restmethod -uri "https://dev.azure.com/company/xxx/_apis/git/repositories/xxx/items/pom.xml?versionType=Branch&version=<BranchName>" -Method Get -ContentType "application/text" -Headers $headers

Yes, I had already figured this out based on additional research. I don't understand all the inconsistent documentation on this api, but this was the solution

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