I’m trying to download the Gitlab repository and I wasn’t able to. I realized it was prompting me to request access to it. I also noticed there are two new files that have been added and there are two different vs download options so I don’t know the reasons for the changes.
Has anyone else run into this problem?
Hi!
I encountered the same problem. What I did (and seems to work fine) is : in Gitlab, Dowload instead of clone. Unzip the repository and extract it wherever you want. In Visual studio, open this folder you unzipped. I get the same result as shown in course.
In the tutorial on installation and setup when the files are cloned it shows that VS Code asks where to put it…and he creates a folder called GameDev (or something like that). It also shows that when he opens that folder location it has the following; vscode-template/vscode/main.code-workspace/Makefile and README.md. And there is also a folder in that folder called .git.
When I download instead of Clone I don’t get the .git folder.
Not sure if that is what causes all my subsequent problems but I noticed that the .git folder is not created when those items are downloaded.
@mwsheeler Michael, cloning will provide the .git folder. The only value is that this is a way to check-in changes to the .git repository that is tied in there. Since we won’t be making changes to the Gitlab one, it is of optional limited value
If you make any changes to the cloned vscode-template folder you can back them up into the local git repository that is sitting under there, and you can also revert changes that you decide are mistaken.
If there are any important changes to the Gitlab version, you can automatically pull them own into your clone (once you know how to find and use git functions for that purpose).
The important additional value of cloning to VS Code is that more connections are made so that VS Code can run builds for you and also present any error messages, etc.
Thanks, that worked great. I feel like I should have seen that solution 
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