Basic Git operations using Visual Studio Code

Git and Continuous Delivery is one of those delicious chocolate & peanut butter combinations we occasionally find in the software world: two great tastes that taste great together! Continuous Delivery of software demands a significant level of automation. It's hard to deliver continuously if you don't have a quality codebase. Git provides you with the building blocks to really take charge of quality in your codebase; it gives you the ability to automate most of the checks in your codebase even before committing the code into your repository. To fully appreciate the effectiveness of Git, you must first understand how to carry out basic operations on Git, such as clone, commit, push, and pull. 

The natural question is, how do we get started with Git? One option is to go native with the command line or look for a code editor that supports Git natively. Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform open source code editor that provides a powerful developer tooling for hundreds of languages. To work in the open source, you need to embrace open source tools. In this recipe, we'll start off by setting up the development environment with Visual Studio Code, create a new Git repository, commit code changes locally, and then push changes to a remote repository on Azure DevOps Server.