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GitHub Copilot chat for Visual Studio 2022

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
Mark Wilson-Thomas
GitHub Copilot has become a trusted AI-assisted pair programmer helping to auto-complete comments and code more productively. That’s just the beginning though! We’ve been working to evolve Copilot to move beyond code completion and provide enhanced AI assistance that you can access throughout your development lifecycle, whatever task you ...

Supercharge your Git experience in VS

April 13, 2022 Apr 13, 2022 04/13/22
Taysser Gherfal
Have you experienced delays when viewing your Git repository or branch history in Visual Studio? Have you run a network command like force-push and had to wait for the operation to complete? Your Git repository may be having performance issues due to its large size. We are happy to integrate a relatively new Git feature called the commit graph...

Line-staging (Interactive Staging)

February 17, 2022 Feb 17, 2022 02/17/22
Taysser Gherfal
Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Visual Studio already supports staging files and now we are taking that to the next level by making it possible to stage chunks of changes in your files right from the editor. Line-staging can be helpful when you need to split changes across ...

Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022

January 6, 2022 Jan 6, 2022 01/6/22
Taysser Gherfal
We continue to enhance the Git experience in Visual Studio, and we are excited to announce some long-awaited updates in version 17.1 Preview 2. Download the latest Visual Studio Preview and check out the following new Git features.   Compare branches Comparing branches provides an overview of differences between two branches ...

GitHub accounts are now integrated into Visual Studio 2019

November 19, 2020 Nov 19, 2020 11/19/20
Ruben Rios
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2019 now offers a fully integrated GitHub account experience. Starting with version 16.8, you’ll be able to add both GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server accounts directly from Visual Studio. The new functionality allows you to add and leverage them just as you do with Microsoft accounts, which ...

Announcing the Release of the Git Experience in Visual Studio

November 12, 2020 Nov 12, 2020 11/12/20
Pratik Nadagouda
We’re excited to announce that our new Git tooling is now the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019, beginning with version 16.8. We've been working on this experience over the last year, iterating based on your feedback to build out key features, enhance performance, and fine tune quality. Above all, we’ve focused on ...

A more secure GitHub Experience

November 9, 2020 Nov 9, 2020 11/9/20
Ruben Rios
As the next step in the journey towards a more secure GitHub experience, beginning November 13th, GitHub and Visual Studio will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating with the REST API and will instead require using token-based authentication (e.g., personal access or OAuth), for all authenticated operations for GitHub.com. ...