How to Add Git Repo to VS Code

This article will list the steps required to add an existing Git repo to VS Code.

Add Repo to VS Code

• Create a new local folder (ex. ~/Downloads/GitHub)
• Initialize the folder for git usage with git init.
• Configure the git repo with your information:
  • git config —global user.name "Dave"
  • git config —global user.email "[email protected]"
• Add the remote repository to the local folder
  • git remote add origin https://github.com//repo.git
• Confirm repo was added properly
  • git remote -v
  • git remote show origin
• Tell VS Code which branch to pull repo information from
  • git pull --rebase origin master
• Tell VS Code which branch to push changes to
  • git push -u origin master

Push Test Commit

• In the terminal, create a test file and push it to the repo by typing the following:
  • touch test.txt
  • git add .
  • git status
  • git commit -m 'test'
  • git push