Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code

Author: Klaus Frank

book/A-git-in-other-environments/sections/guis.asc

@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ Then you can simply stage or unstage some changes, alter the commit message, and
 `gitk` and `git-gui` are examples of task-oriented tools.
 Each of them is tailored for a specific purpose (viewing history and creating commits, respectively), and omit the features not necessary for that task.
 
+==== Visual Studio Code
+
+Probably one of the best cross platform gui clients for git. https://code.visualstudio.com[Visual Studio Code] is an extensible Text Editor featuring git integration a debugger. There are all kind of plugins for all different programming languages and features. A very popular Plugin is https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim[VSCodeVim] which provides VI key strokes for the editor. Also all (actually more than through the gui) are available by Keystrokes or "command mode". 
+If you instead want to write your own plugin, you can do this by using TypeScript and JavaScript. 
+Settings are stored on multiple locations, one includes ".vscode" within your repository, for project specific settings, like enable/disable linting only for this project.
 
 ==== GitHub for Mac and Windows