If we run git status command, it will show below error: Error when checking git status command Let’s open navigate to the project directory in PowerShell prompt and run the Get-ChildItem -force command to get list of all files: Initial list of files in the project Check the project directory from Git’s perspective We’ll left the checkbox for ‘Create new Git Repository’ unchecked. Select console application project and provide a name for the project. This should present you a screen like below: Create a console application project For this, go to File -> New -> Project or press Ctrl+Shift+N in Visual Studio.

Not much fancy but provides enough of basic platform so that we can work on our requirements. Let’s first create a console application project in Visual Studio. Create a console application project in Visual Studio You might see a slightly different behavior with your versions but there should not be much difference. We’ll be using git version 2.14.2.windows.2 and Visual Studio version 15.3.5 for this series. In current blog post or first part of this series, we’ll see what requires to setup a repository in Visual Studio and making your first commit. In this blog series, we’ll try to understand the same. However there are not much articles about how git is implemented in the Visual Studio or what is happening when you push/sync or do other things with source code repository in Visual Studio. There are a lot of articles about how git works as its a very popular version control system and about Visual Studio as well as its a very popular software IDE.

So we need to understand what is happening behind-the-scenes. However command line git can be very very powerful if you know what you are doing and you do need to have that kind of control sometime. Each UI based implementation of git takes away all those commands and command line interface, it provides a nice usable interface to its users. I won’t go much into the debate of which one is better, but I can say that you should know what you are doing. I recently came across few blogs discussions where the question was whether you should be using some kind of UI tool for git or live with the command line git and which one is better.

Visual studio git integration