Installing Git for Visual Studio 2017

To install the Git plugin for Visual Studio, run the Visual Studio 2017 installer and click on Modify. Once the screen loads, navigate to the Individual Components tab, as shown in the following screenshot. Scroll down to the Code tools section and select Git for Windows & GitHub extension for Visual Studio. Click on the Modify button to continue with the installation:

Git for Windows will allow you to use local Git repositories as well as to perform Git commands to work with any remote repositories. If you are going to deal with GitHub, you must check GitHub extension for Visual Studio for having an easy ...

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