It’s fast, easily the fastest editor I’ve used after Sublime Text. It’s built using Node.js, and you can extend it using JavaScript (which makes it a win for all us JavaScript developers). It uses Electron as its base, which enables it to be cross platform and work on Mac, Windows and Linux. The code of the editor is completely Open Source, and there’s no payment required to use it. This editor builds on top of decades of editor experience from Microsoft. If you’re looking for suggestions for whether to use it or not, let me say yes, you should switch to it from whatever other editor you are using now. In the last 12 months I’ve been using VS Code, the Open Source editor from Microsoft, and it’s quickly become my favorite editor ever. I largely prefer an editor over an IDE, as it’s faster and gets less in the way. The difference between an IDE and an editor is mostly in the feature set, and complexity. I can remember TextMate, TextWrangler, Espresso, BBEdit, XCode, Coda, Brackets, Sublime Text, Atom, vim, PHPStorm. I used tons of editors and IDEs in the past few years. In the Unix world you have those Emacs vs vi “wars”, and I kind of imagine why so much time is spend debating the advantages of one versus another. Some people defend their editor choice strenuously.

First, you click Clone Repository and, then, a GitHub repository dropdown of your account will appear (if you have already signed in with GitHub, as I showed in the prerequisites section).Since the beginning, editors are a strange beast. In this post, I am going to show you how to clone the repository using the Source Control tab.

Using the Clone Repository button in the Source Control tab, located in the left-side panel.

Using the Git:Clonecommand in the Command Palette.

There are three different ways to clone your GitHub repository: If you don’t have any repositories on GitHub, I suggest you create a new repository and upload Python files that will be updated later.

To clone a GitHub repository, you need to have a GitHub repository already. In this way, you have a full copy of the repository on your local PC and you can easily add, remove, and update the files on GitHub using Visual Studio Code directly. The first operation is to clone your GitHub repository on your local computer using Visual Studio Code. If all these steps are satisfied, we can finally start this tutorial! 2.

Visual studio code git tutorial