Programmer's self-cultivation series (a): Elegant GitHub code management tools of

1. Introduction

Code management is a programmers often encounter a problem, a lot of children's shoes will save the code to a local hard disk, this method chaotic management, there is also the risk of missing codes, and version can not control, so develop good habits programmer's code management compulsory. Among the many code management tools author of this focus on GitHub.

2.GitHub Introduction

GitHub is oriented open source and proprietary software project hosting platform, since only supports git repository as the only format hosted, named GitHub.

GitHub on April 10, 2008 formally launched, in addition to the Git repository hosting and basic Web management interface, also offer a subscription, discussion groups, text rendering, online file editor, collaborative map (report), code snippets share ( Gist) and other functions. At present, it has over 3.5 million registered users, the number of hosted version is also very much, many of whom are well-known open source projects Ruby ON Rails, jQuery , Python and so on.

3.VS2017 configuration GitHub

(1) Registration GitHub account

Registration link: https://github.com

(2) VS2017 installed plug GitHub

Before installation, opened in VS Team] [-] [connection management menu, this time not GitHub options, as shown below.

Open the [Tools] - [] menu expanded and updated, search for and install "GitHub Extension for Visual Studio" plug-in, as shown below.

Note: If here was not successfully installed (wait too long to download does not move), you can click on the link https://visualstudio.github.com/ download the plug-in installed on their own (the installation of the need to open the VS closed).

安装过后，再次打开【团队】-【管理连接】菜单，若出现GitHub选项，说明安装成功，如下图所示。