diff --git a/packages/backend/src/repoManager.ts b/packages/backend/src/repoManager.ts
index a0147942..89e41673 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/repoManager.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/repoManager.ts
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ export class RepoManager {
 
         const credentials = await getAuthCredentialsForRepo(repo, this.db);
         const cloneUrlMaybeWithToken = credentials?.cloneUrlWithToken ?? repo.cloneUrl;
-        const authHeader = credentials?.authToken ?? undefined;
+        const authHeader = credentials?.authHeader ?? undefined;
 
         if (existsSync(repoPath) && !isReadOnly) {
             // @NOTE: in #483, we changed the cloning method s.t., we _no longer_
diff --git a/packages/backend/src/types.ts b/packages/backend/src/types.ts
index 5edee85a..2ea42d04 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/types.ts
@@ -60,5 +60,5 @@ export type RepoAuthCredentials = {
     hostUrl?: string;
     token: string;
     cloneUrlWithToken?: string;
-    authToken?: string;
+    authHeader?: string;
 }
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diff --git a/packages/backend/src/utils.ts b/packages/backend/src/utils.ts
index 0ea3371a..e6ac5f93 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/utils.ts
@@ -196,12 +196,12 @@ export const getAuthCredentialsForRepo = async (repo: RepoWithConnections, db: P
 
                 // For ADO server, multiple auth schemes may be supported. If the ADO deployment supports NTLM, the git clone will default
                 // to this over basic auth. As a result, we cannot embed the token in the clone URL and must force basic auth by passing in the token
-                // appropriately in the header. To do this, we set the authToken field here
+                // appropriately in the header. To do this, we set the authHeader field here
                 if (config.deploymentType === 'server') {
                     return {
                         hostUrl: config.url,
                         token,
-                        authToken: "Authorization: Basic " + Buffer.from(`:${token}`).toString('base64')
+                        authHeader: "Authorization: Basic " + Buffer.from(`:${token}`).toString('base64')
                     }
                 } else {
                     return {