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Visual Studio Code Guide

Adding code you cloned from somewhere to your repository

  1. Click the Source Code icon in the side bar
  2. Click on the … in the side bar. (There are two if you can’t follow step 3, try the other one!)
  3. Select Remote > then Remove Remote. Select the name from the list. (If there is more than one, remove them all one by one)
  4. Click on the … in the side bar.
  5. Select Remote > then Add Remote...
    1. Paste the URL of your repository
    2. Enter the name origin
  6. Click on the … in the side bar.
  7. Select Push
    1. Click OK if a message box pops up.

Adding a project you’ve created to your repository

If you have created a new project (rather than having cloned it from somewhere), follow the instructions below.

  1. Click the Source Code icon in the side bar
  2. Click the Initialize Repository button
  3. Click on the … in the side bar.
  4. Select Remote > then Add Remote...
    1. Paste the URL of your repository
    2. Enter the name origin
  5. Click on the tick icon in the side bar.
  6. Enter a commit message
  7. Press the Sync Changes button.

Uploading changes

After you have made changes to your code you need to commit and push those changes.

  1. Click the Source Code icon in the side bar
  2. Click on the tick icon in the side bar.
  3. Enter a commit message
  4. Press the Sync Changes button.

Pulling Changes

  1. Click the Source Code icon in the side bar
  2. Click on the … in the side bar.
  3. Select Pull