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by OliverGilan 1557 days ago
Funny but Azure Repos actually has had this feature for a while. When I first joined Microsoft I was shocked that all our teams used Azure Repos instead of GitHub considering we own GitHub but as I've used Repos more and more I've actually come to like it more than GitHub itself. A lot of the UI is cleaner and more intuitive than GitHub to me now, maybe just from using it a lot.
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Agree, I really prefer DevOps' PR experience. I'm just missing the easy GitHub ci Integrations (3rd party checks & bots that post comments for example). It probably also exists for DevOps, but I never came across of it
+1. I had the same experience joining Microsoft. I wasn't super thrilled by Azure at first, but was surprised by how much functionality it had. Fast forward a couple years later, I moved to another big tech company using Github instead, which had setup integrations with a bunch of different external tools (and this one was no slouch when it comes to engineering tooling). I can't tell you how much I missed Azure, even though I've had my issues with MSFT.
Azure DevOps is a very solid product in general. That said, the whole work items UI is terrible and inferior to the GitHub issue’s system. Too complex.