Question

A developer at your company accidentally deleted a feature branch named 'feature/payments' in an Azure Repos Git repository. The branch contained several unmerged commits that were pushed to the remote before deletion. The developer does not have the commit SHA and no local clone with the branch still exists. As the DevOps engineer, what is the fastest supported way to restore the branch with its commits in Azure DevOps?

Accepted Answer

Use the Azure DevOps portal to search for the deleted branch under the repository's Branches page 'Deleted branches' view and select Restore.

Answer

Open a support ticket with Microsoft to recover the branch from server-side backups, since deleted branches cannot be restored by users.

Answer

Run 'git reflog' on the Azure DevOps server through an SSH session to find the dangling commit and re-create the branch.

Answer

Restore the repository from the last daily snapshot in Project Settings, which will bring back all recently deleted branches.