Setup Github on Visual Studio Code I usually access github from within Visual Studio Code. As such, when I start coding a new project, I often need a reminder, or a cheat sheet for how to connect Visual Studio Code to a Git repository. These notes are more for me than for anyone else, but I'm sharing them nonetheless. Steps: Create a directory on the local file system. Create a repo on Github. Select Clone "Clone or download" on Github, copy the link In Visual Studio Code, sect File -> Add Folder to Workspace -> Select the newly created directory Select Terminal Window In the window, type: git config --global user.name <github userID> git clone <URL from github link copied earlier> That should be all that's required. any newly created file should be available on github after stage/commit/push. Git configuration variables can be stored at three different levels. Each level overrides values at the previous level. 1.