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

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 ...

Also the Visual Studio tooling support for Git is almost blank. The compiled version of the add-in is available in the Visual Studio Gallery.

Microsoft has been mapping out plans to improve its Git Virtual File System (GVFS), including linking it to the Visual Studio IDE and getting it supported in third-party Git clients.

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.

Microsoft won’t kill off its own proprietary centralized version control system in favor of Git, but the open source solution will become a native part of Visual Studio and TFS.