cloning azure devops git repository through visual studio 2017 throws error

Question

I have created an organization in Azure DevOps. Under this organization, I created a project with private Git Repository in Azure DevOps. Now When I try to clone this repository using Visual Studio 2017 I keep getting below mentioned error.

**Git failed with a fatal error.
unable to access 'https://dev.azure.com/organizationame/projectname/_git/projectname/': The requested URL returned error: 403**

Answer 1

I tested this in visual studio by the following steps ,every thing works well.

1.Connect to a project in Team Explorer

2.On the Connect to a Project page, select the repo you want to clone.

3.If a window pops up that requires credentials, enter your PAT and make sure your PAT has Read, write & manage permission in section Code .

4.The repository was cloned successfully.

If you have followed the steps but failed, please indicate at which step you got the error.