If you make new changes in your workspace, the new changes will appear again in the SideBar, and you'll need to commit them again once you have made significant changes that you want to record. Your Git working directory is clean, all the changes you made so far are tracked, and your Git View says there are 0 changes (it always compares the current state to your last commit). Now you have made your first commit, and the initial state of your repository is recorded. Type your commit message into the input bar at the top of the SideBar, and click on the little tick icon. Since in this example this will be the initial commit, let's use the not-so-creative 'Initial Commit' message. In order to commit the staged changes, you need to add a commit message that describes the changes you made since your previous commit. Staged changes are not yet recorded, you also need to commit them, so that later you can have a look at or move back to the current state of your repository.

If you want to stage all your files at once, click the + button that appears when you hover over the Changes subtitle. To stage a file, click the + button that appears when you hover over that file in the Changes section.Īfter you click on the files you want to stage, Visual Studio Code moves that file from the Changes folder to the Staged Changes folder, that means that now they are in the staging area.

Before committing, you need to add the files you want to track with Git to the staging area, or in other words you need to stage the changes. git folder inside your workspace (you can't see this from VS Code, as it's a hidden directory, but you can find it in your file manager in the root folder of your project), and it will also add your untracked files to the Side Bar.Īfter your Git repository is set up, it's time to create your initial commit ( a commit is a recorded state of your whole repository you can later move back to). To do so, click on the Initialize Git Repository button in the Git View.

If your workspace isn't yet tracked by Git, first you need to initialize a new repository. The Side Bar contains a separate Git View you can quickly open by clicking on the Git icon in the View Bar.

Visual Studio Code supports Git by default, which means you don't have to install any packages or extensions to use it. Git allows you to track your work, move back and forth between versions, and work on different branches at the same time. Integrated Git support is one of the great features of Visual Studio Code.

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