How to Clone a Project From GitHub in VSCode (2024 Update)

let's see how we can clone a GitHub repository in Visual Studio code so I have this sample repository here and this is the URL so let's try to search for another repository and I'll show you how you can do this for any repository so let's say GitHub some repository so let's see any project that we have here okay let's see some trending repositories okay so I think let's try to do something uh that is is a bit smaller okay I don't know what this is this is free lunch to St preserving in text to image generation okay let's see what this is so we'll also clone this now I'm opening this because I want to show you the URL see so this is the URL format that is github.com first and then the username and then the project name this is the pro URL for any GitHub project but this one it is instance St is the username and this is the project so what we can do is we can just copy this right or what you can do is you can just click on code here and copy this so this is the same thing this here and this is the same thing but we just add do G to the end and they are basically the same so what we need to do is after you've copy the URL right so I'll copy this for now and you go to wherever you want to make your project right so I'll click on Python and what I want to do is I want the project to be created here so uh if I'm cloning I want that project to be made here like this my project right so I want that project folder inside this python so what you need to do is you need to open Visual Studio code in this directory and how you can do that is just hold shift and right click and you can click open in terminal and then here just type code dot hit enter and your Visual Studio code will open and in this directory as you can see your Visual Studio code has opened so all the folders are available here okay so what you do is basically you just open command prompt in this directory or terminal in this directory and hit this code Dot and your Visual Studio code has opened here what you need to do is just click on Terminal and click on new terminal and as you can see the terminal is also inside this directory that is inside the directory where you had opened your Visual Studio code so now what you need to do is you need to do get clone and then paste your URL and make sure there is do git at the end now hit enter and your project will be cloned now this needs git to be installed if you don't have git installed check the link in the description it will show you how you can install git in your system now once the cloning is complete as you can see this where is it web project should be here somewhere yeah so web project is here right so we have our project ready and this is index is inside we project now what you can do is you can just uh open this project you just click on file and click on open folder and inside python you can just click on this web project and click on select folder and only web folder will be web project will be selected and all the other things will be gone so this is how you can clone a project and open it in Visual Studio code if you have any questions let me know in the comments below

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Length: 3min 38sec (218 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 09 2024