Cloning repos with VS Code

VS Code can control the entire Git workflow, from the clone, right through to the commit and virtually anything else.

Exercise

• Fork the sample project

  • https://github.com/burkeholland/i-love-lamp

• Clone the sample project into the "exercise-7-git-source-control/start" folder

• Open the cloned project in VS Code

Answer

• Navigate to https://github.com/burkeholland/i-love-lamp

• Click the "Fork" button

• On your forked repo, find the "clone or download" button and copy the URL

• Open the "exercise-8-git-source-control" folder in VS Code

• Open the Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P)

• Select "Git Clone"

• Paste in the URL that you copied from Github

• Select the "start" folder in "exercise-8-git-source-control" folder

• Click "Select Repository Location"

• Open a new instance of VS Code directly on the cloned "i-love-lamp" folder

cd exercise-8-git-source-control/start/i-love-lamp
code .