Cloning a Git Repository
Explore how to clone a Git repository using Azure Data Studio's integrated source control features. This lesson guides you through installing Git, accessing the source control interface, and managing repositories locally, empowering you to protect and organize your code effectively.
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Introduction
Source Control is an indispensable capability when creating software and can potentially save you a lot of time in the event you lose some of your carefully written scripts. Unfortunately, Source Control systems often interfere in the development process, creating cryptic fails where it seems only a mystic can help. With Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub and its seamless integration with Git in ADS, Source Control is now very friendly, highly functional, and delivers on the promise of protecting your codebase.
We’ll demonstrate its capabilities with a very practical exercise, which involves cloning this course’s source code to a local repository.
Cloning this course’s repository
In this example, we are going to use ADS and Git to clone this course’s repository, which is in GitHub. To get started with Git, click on the Source Control icon on the Activity Bar, as shown in the figure below: