Branch Manager

A Branch Manager hub in the Repos section of Azure DevOps, giving your team a single view of every branch in a repository.

Especially useful if you have a standard branch naming policy that includes user initials and work item IDs:

path/AA-12345-doing-my-work

Features

Branch — click the branch icon to copy the full name to the clipboard; use the column header button to copy all currently visible branch names
Last commit — SHA link, relative date, and author avatar
Behind / Ahead — clickable counts comparing each branch against the repository's default branch
Pull requests — active PR chips with status badges (draft, building, blocked, awaiting, ready); completed PRs; and a shortcut to create a PR for branches that are ahead
User column — initials extracted from branch name are resolved to real user profiles
Work item column — work item extracted from branch name is displayed
Delete — remove branches directly from the list (with confirmation)

Filter	Type	Notes
Free text	—	Matches branch name, author, WI title, WI ID, or user display name
Owner	multi-select	Names from user mappings; Not owned for unmapped branches
WI State	multi-select	Work item states; No work item for branches without one
Area	multi-select	Work item area paths
Iteration	multi-select	Work item iteration paths
Sync	multi-select (AND)	Behind, Not behind, Ahead, Not ahead
PRs	multi-select	Has active PR, Has completed PR, No PR

Go to Project Settings → Branch Manager to configure:

A regular expression applied to each branch name. Must include named capture groups:

The settings page includes a live test: type any branch name to see what user and id values are parsed.

Default:

(?:^|\/)(?:[^\/]*\/)?(?:(?<user>[a-z]{2})-)?(?:(?<id>\d+)-)?(?:[^\/]+)?$

Map each set of initials to a user, so their details can be shown against their branches.