Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

We have an Azure DevOps pipeline, and in one of the steps (see below), we trigger the git checkout command.

We began encountering the following fatal error.

fatal: 'origin/main' is not a commit and a branch 'main' cannot be created from it

Reason and Fix:

• We used a git PAT token to connect to Git from Azure DevOps and configured the Service Connection as shown below.

• The pipeline was configured to run using the Service Connection mentioned above.

• As for the error, it occurred due to an expired PAT token. Providing a valid PAT token and rerunning the pipeline resolved the issue.

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