

And they can get out of sync, which can get a little messy, particularly when there are multiple contributors to a repo.

One irritation for those of us that live within the Windows Subsystem for Linux is that the SCM within vscode uses the Windows installation of Git, whilst the terminal sessions we use have Git installed in our prefererd distribution. Visual Studio Code, Windows Subsystem for Linux and. Git config -global credential.helper manager Git config -global user.email config -global user.name "Your Name" Open a CMD or PowerShell new window and run the following commands (substituting your details as required):.If you don’t see any errors Git is correctly installed. Verify that Git is correctly installed by opening a CMD or PowerShell window & entering the command git -version Ensure Enable Git Credential Manager is selected.Ensure Use Git for the Windows command Prompt is selected.

