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Initialize a new repository: VS folder

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Initialize a new repository: VS folder

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- [Instructor] The goal for this video, is to see how to initialize a Git repository from Visual Studio. Now before I show the first demo, let's talk briefly about how Visual Studio manages project files. For the longest time, Visual Studio has had this concept of solution and projects. There's an SLN file and different project files, and you open those files and Visual Studio, in turn, figures out what to load into Visual Studio and show in the Solution Explorer. Visual Studio, many years back, also added the ability to do what's called folder-based development, so you could go and choose File, Open, Folder and open a folder. This is typically done for web-based development or websites. What I'll start with is looking at how to take a folder and make it into a repository or add a repository to a folder, would be a better way of saying that. You notice I have nothing open in Solution Explorer. I'll go to File…

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