Clone your VSO git Repository locally

Introduction

This article explains several ways to clone your git project locally.

From Visual Studio

To get starting you need to clone the repository to your local machine. To find the repository login with your Microsoft account, Click on Clone and observe Clone URL. That’s what you are looking for:

Open Visual Studio 2013 or 2015, connect to your project and click on Clone this repository. Enter the local path where you want to store the project and press Clone button.

To add new files/presentations/code, in the cloned repository add them and then go to Team Explorer à changes. Enter a comment and click Commit and push. If you have untracked files add them to the project.

You can find more documentation about this topic on: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/code/git/get-started

From Windows PowerShell

Open Windows Powershell. Go to the location where you want to clone your project. Type command:

Git clone repository_url:

Add your new file with command git add filename. Commit your file with git commit file name. Add to repository with your file with git push. To take files added by others perform a git pull. More documentation about this:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository

From GIT for Windows GUI

1.       To do this install it from: https://git-scm.com/download/win

Open GIT GUI:

More about GIT version control you can find in this book: Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development.

Happy testing and... make it green, becomes a dream :).