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Use Git commands from Solution Explorer

Use Git commands from Solution Explorer

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Use Git commands from Solution Explorer

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- [Instructor] I'm back in Visual Studio and I've logged in with my account. And I've made some changes in these markdown files. You can tell that I made the changes because there's a red checkmark here in the solution explorer. When you right-click on a file, you also get specific get commands. For instance, I can commit the changes that I've made. I can also go to the go to get changes section. And these are essentially the same item at this point. I can also view the history for this file. In my repo, there's only one change at the moment. Also is the ability to compare with the unmodified version. This brings up the Visual Studio difference tool. Over on the left, I can see the committed version. On the right, I can see the currently modified version. In this case, it's a rather uninteresting look 'cause I only changed one line but in a real code file you might have multiple places where you've modified the code. And I can do a comparison here. I can also right-click on this and…

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