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Contribute from a pipeline

In an Azure DevOps pipeline, you can use the <ProjectName> Build Service Service Account to checkout the repository and write changes back to the repository.

To do so there are two steps:

1. Checkout the code but persist the credentials

    - checkout: self
      persistCredentials: true
      clean: true
   

2. Then either on the main branch or the repository level, in the Security Tab set the Contribute permission to Allow for <ProjectName> Build Service