Azure: Clone VSTS Git repository to Visual Studio failed with error 400

I recently started to play with Azure Deployments via Visual Studio Team Services. The idea is having a source control for my ARM templates and keep my projects nice and tidy in one place.

I saw James Bannan presented on IT/DEV 2017 conference and liked this approach. Unfortunately, it is not clearly documented, or maybe I just cannot find a proper information since I am not a developer.

Anyway,  I integrated my Visual Studio 2017 with VSTS; that created a Git instance for me. From the VSTS portal I creted a new Project and tried to clone it to my VS2017. It miserably failed with Error 400.

Resolution: It turned out the clone process does not like spaces in project name :0 . fortunately there is a workaround I found here it describes a similar issue with cloning from tfs, but since the issue is actually on VS side it works for VSTS too. You basically need to cancel cloning in VS window and select “Clone Repository” from Project section. This will replace spaces in URL with %20 and in this case it finishes successfuly.