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Using GitHub for Visual Studio

Use GitHub for Visual Studio to manage your projects and work with pull requests.

Table of Contents

• Adding and cloning repositories
  • Publishing an existing project to GitHub
  • Creating an empty repository from Visual Studio
  • Cloning a repository to Visual Studio
• Working with pull requests
  • Viewing pull requests for a repository
  • Creating a pull request
  • Reviewing a pull request in Visual Studio
  • Making changes to a pull request
• Creating gists
• Viewing existing code on GitHub
  • Viewing the selected code on GitHub
  • Copying the URL of the selected code's location on GitHub
  • Viewing the selected code in blame view on GitHub
• Using the GitHub toolbar
• Operations provided by Visual Studio
  • Committing
  • Pushing commits to the remote repository
  • Fetching and pulling
  • Working with branches
  • Viewing history
  • Ignoring files
• Contact a human