So obviously you will have to install Visual Studio Code first, and this is nothing more than download it and run the install here. And that is where Visual Studio Code comes in. Now the next step is to work with a proper code editor.

Opening the cloned project in Visual Studio Code We see that the directory is still empty. I will try to explain this in another blog article. But this is out of scope for this blog article. There is also a way to authenticate with a private/public SSH key, so you don’t have to put in your username and password every time you clone your project. Ihoogendoor-a01:My-Local-Scripts-Directory iwanhoogendoorn$

Ihoogendoor-a01:My-Local-Scripts-Directory iwanhoogendoorn$ ls -lĭrwxr-xr-x 4 iwanhoogendoorn staff 128 Mar 11 20:44 my-sample-project Remote: Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 Remote: Counting objects: 100% (3/3), done. Username for ‘': for Enumerating objects: 3, done. Ihoogendoor-a01:My-Local-Scripts-Directory iwanhoogendoorn$ git clone Ihoogendoor-a01:~ iwanhoogendoorn$ cd Downloads/ I have a MacBook Pro with OSX so for me this looked like this: Now we have the URL we can start the clone. So you need to copy the git URL from the GitLab project folder on the website: Now that we have our project we can “clone” the project locally to our computer. Once your project is created you will see that there is only a README file that we choose to create, but other than that it is empty. You need to fill in some information and when you have done this, just create the project! I created an account and created my first “Project”.

So to start with coding scripts apparently “the” way to go is to use Git.ĭale was using to share his scripts repository so I decided to go the same route.

Visual studio code git credentials