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7. Source Control with Git

Alessandro Del Sole1 
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Cremona, Italy
 

Writing software often involves collaboration. This is true if you are part of a development team but also if you are involved in open source projects, or if you are an individual developer who has interactions with customers. Microsoft strongly supports both collaboration and open source, so Visual Studio Code provides an integrated source control system based on Git and that can be extended to other providers.

This chapter describes all the integrated tools for collaboration over source code from within Visual Studio Code that are available out of the box, but also ...

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