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GitHub tools

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- There are some additional GitHub-specific tools in Visual Studio. Now we've already seen one, the GitHub extension. We had to install that in Visual Studio, and that is used mostly for making pull requests, or working with pull requests. The other tools I'm talking about are over here in Team Explorer, and there's three. Pulse, Graphs, and Issues. And when you click on these buttons, they'll take you to this GitHub repository, and open a certain page. So if I click on "Graphs," it opens up that repository and takes me to this section, "Dependency graph." Now in my case, this is a private repository, so I'm not able to use this. See here, it says I need to upgrade to GitHub Pro, which I already have a Pro account, but it's not a public repository. So I could upgrade, I'm not going to do that. Why would you use the Dependency graph? Well you can read more about it down here, but basically it will track any…

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