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Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code. Git TFS Visual Studio Integration. Posted on February 9, 2014 by Francois. Git is probably the leading DVCS tool and has great support amongst the open source community and across platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows). Visual Studio 2010 and under: Git is not officially supported by Microsoft.
Visual Studio Code is a great PowerShell development platform and, I can say that I haven’t really looked back since making the move. Visual Studio Code provides tight integration with Git so it is an excellent way to start using version control if you haven’t already with you PowerShell code. Let’s run through just a quick basic tutorial on how to use Git with Visual Studio Code.
We will walk through a basic clone of a repository and synchronizing of files in Visual Studio Code using the integrated GUI Git tools that are installed by default. Let’s dive in and take a look at a couple of basic tasks most will want to accomplish – cloning and synchronizing files. Use Git with Visual Studio Code The first thing I like to do is install the Git for Windows installation that allows us to work with Git from the command line. Below are screenshots of the installation, although I left everything at defaults. The screenshots will show what those default are during the installation. Visual Studio Code is now my preferred editor of choice. Features such as the tight integration with Git, make it an excellent choice for version control.
There are a lot of PowerShell features and functionality built in and it is sure to only get better. New versions of Visual Studio Code are being released quite regularly. I love the look and feel of the interface as well.
Do yourself a favor if you haven’t checked Visual Studio Code out yet to and start playing around with the features/functionality, especially with Git integration.