Azure data factory not deleting a linked service when merging branches using Azure devops CI CD pipeline

Question

I have a linked service to a blob storage account in my ADF and what I'm finding is that when I delete the linked service from my azure datafactory (that is linked to my dev branch), that change is not getting picked up as file change when I merge my dev branch into my test branch (which still has the linked service).

I can see my commit under the commits tab on the merge window, so devops knows I've made a change, but the files tab doesn't show the linked service being removed.

Has anyone experienced this issue? and is there a way around it?

Further information:

Screenshots

Screenshot 1 showing the release branch with the linked service that we want to delete.

Screenshot 2 showing the dev branch with the linked service removed

Screenshots below showing the details of the pull request in azure devops,

Screenshot 3 shows the dev branch linked services folder (note the linked service that we dont want has been removed)

Screenshot 4 shows the release branch that still has the linked service that we are hoping to remove.

Screenshot 5 shows the merge request that does not have the removal of the linked service under the list of files.

Screen 6 showing that the commit where we removed the linked service is included in the branch history.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I can reproduce the same pull request appearance with you, it could happen with below steps:

1. In your dev branch, you don't have deleteme linked service currently. then created release branch based on the dev branch.

2. Create deleteme linked service on release branch, which means release branch is ahead of dev now.

3. Delete pipeline1.json from dev branch, create pull request from dev to release branch.

4. On dev branch, create deleteme linked service, then delete it.

Pull request files tab:

Pull request commit tab:

In above, it was caused that the deleteme linked service on release branch is ahead of dev branch, when pull request is created, it won't list it in the Files tab.