Accessing Code in the Cloud with GitHub [Ep 1] Beginner Series

hi everyone thanks for joining this session on accessing code in the cloud with GitHub where we'll go over how to clone a repo to your local machine with Visual Studio I'm starting off on the learning series main repo page where I can see this green code drop down button I'm going to copy this https URL and then I'll go to visual studio and click clone a repository here I'm going to paste the link and I can decide where in my file system I want the repository to live by default Visual Studio groups all of your clone repositories together in the source slash repo folder of your user Drive I click clone and my repository begins cloning I know it was successful because I can see the name of my repository in the status bar and also in the get changes window label you may notice that there's a notification Banner prompting me to enter a username and email this is a git configuration that adds your name and email to each of the commits or snapshots of code that you push it can be different from your GitHub or Visual Studio account also depending on your use case you may need to adjust your username and email per repository if for example you'd like to push your code changes with your work email or your personal email we'll keep the checkbox for its set in global.git config checked for now since for this series we don't want to change this information every time but you can always go into the tools options get settings to adjust this later thanks for watching everyone