diff --git a/docs/repos/git/includes/personal-access-tokens.md b/docs/repos/git/includes/personal-access-tokens.md
index 8fee050b0b8..eb473af3690 100644
--- a/docs/repos/git/includes/personal-access-tokens.md
+++ b/docs/repos/git/includes/personal-access-tokens.md
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ On Linux or macOS, in Bash, you can type:
```bash
MY_PAT=yourPAT # replace "yourPAT" with your actual PAT
B64_PAT=$(echo "pat:$MY_PAT" | base64)
-git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Basic ${B64_PAT}" clone https://dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName
+git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Bearer ${B64_PAT}" clone https://dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName
```
On Windows, you can do something similar in PowerShell:
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ On Windows, you can do something similar in PowerShell:
```powershell
$MyPat = 'yourPAT'
$B64Pat = [Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($MyPat))
-git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Basic $B64Pat" clone https://dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName
+git -c http.extraHeader="Authorization: Bearer $B64Pat" clone https://dev.azure.com/yourOrgName/yourProjectName/_git/yourRepoName
```
To keep your token more secure, use credential managers so you don't have to enter your credentials every time. We recommend the following credential managers:
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ curl -u username[:{personalaccesstoken}] https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/_a
If you wish to provide the PAT through an HTTP header, first convert it to a Base64 string (the following example shows how to convert to Base64 using C#). The resulting string can then be provided as an HTTP header in the following format:
-Authorization: Basic BASE64USERNAME:PATSTRING
+Authorization: Bearer BASE64_USERNAME_PAT_STRING
Here it is in C# using the HttpClient class.
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ public static async void GetBuilds()
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(
new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
- client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic",
+ client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer",
Convert.ToBase64String(
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(
string.Format("{0}:{1}", "", personalaccesstoken))));