Hundreds of developers expressed amazement at a new preview feature introduced this month by GitHub: the ability to instantly open up Visual Studio Code in a browser in order to edit the source code ...

In effect, Visual Studio can become the primary interface for Git, for developers. “I can connect, clone a repository, and open the project in Visual Studio, edit files, and commit,” Harry said.

Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

The new features allow the developer to control a Git repository directly from Visual Studio, reducing context-switching. Microsoft first announced the new git tooling earlier this year, in March.