

If you need a quick git summary check our detailed Git and GitHub Guide. To use this tool properly, you need to know how to use git itself, or at least it won’t harm you to know how to use it. To start the Visual Studio Code GitHub setup, you need to have a GitHub account and have downloaded, GitHub Pull Requests and Issues extension. We will discuss How to add GitHub extension to Visual Studio Code In this article, we will talk about the Visual Studio Code GitHub integration, from the basics of how to configure github vscode, to the detailed description of all of the useful features that comes with Visual Studio Code and GitHub working together. Pair that with the in-program use of the git version control system, and you have yourself an all-around go-to program for your developers to work on. Visual Studio Code as a code editor brings a lot of useful features for developers of all kinds. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code.Efficiency, simplicity, and team collaboration capabilities are some of the most in-demand qualities, in the modern working environment. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases. The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.

When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.
