
Changes can also be unstaged by clicking the – (minus) button. The equivalent command for this action is git commit -m "Your commit message". Only changes in the Staged Changes section are added to the next commit, which you can do by selecting Commit Staged. When you stage a change, Visual Studio creates a Staged Changes section.
You can also stage all your modified files with one click by using the stage all + (plus) button at the top of the Changes section. When you are ready to stage changes, click the + (plus) button on each file you want to stage, or right-click a file and then select Stage.
Staged files: These files have changes that will be added to the next commit.Īs you do your work, Visual Studio keeps track of the file changes to your project in the Changes section of the Git Changes window. Modified files: These files have changes since your last commit, but you haven't yet staged them for the next commit. Unmodified files: These files haven't changed since your last commit. These changes are equivalent to what you would see when you enter the git status command in the command line: Git tracks file changes in your repo as you work, and separates the files in your repo into three categories.
You can toggle between the currently open View and the list of Views by using the Switch Views button in the Solution Explorer toolbar. sln file, then Solution Explorer shows you the list of available Views for you to choose from. sln files in your repository, then by default it loads Folder View.
If Solution Explorer doesn’t detect any. sln file, then Solution Explorer directly loads that solution for you. If you clone a repository that contains a single. Visual Studio adjusts its View based on which View file you load in Solution Explorer: These include files such as CMakeLists.txt or those with the. Solution Explorer loads the folder at the root of the Git repository and scans the directory tree for any View files. When you clone a repository or open a local repository, Visual Studio switches you into that Git context by saving and closing any previously open solutions and projects. From here, you can quickly access and switch between your Git repositories. Open an existing local repositoryĪfter you’ve cloned a repository or created one, Visual Studio detects the Git repository and adds it to your list of Local Repositories in the Git menu. If you don’t know the repository URL, Visual Studio makes it easy to browse to and then clone your existing GitHub or Azure DevOps repository.
If you know the URL of the repository that you would like to clone, you can paste the URL in the Repository location section and then choose the disk location you would like Visual Studio to clone to. Visual Studio includes a straightforward clone experience.