Learn how to add a GitHub repository to VS Code as well as how to install a handy extension to manage pull requests and issues.

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a private GitHub repository, then demonstrate how to securely clone and pull your code locally without the need to deal with fatal errors.

Figure C Adding a repository URL for cloning in the GitHub Desktop client. Click Clone and the repository will be cloned into the local directory shown in the Local Path field.

With the new Git repository created, a programmer can concentrate on developing code, performing Git commits and interacting with remote repositories though push, pull and fetch operations. Git init ...

GitHub Desktop 1.5 also introduces several new performance and usability improvements. Adding, creating, and cloning repositories, for example, are now a lot easier, and can be done by clicking a ...

GitHub said unknown intruders gained unauthorized access to some of its code repositories and stole code-signing certificates for two of its desktop applications: Desktop and Atom.