Visual Studio Magazine

Source Code Control with Git and Mercurial

Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.
InfoWorld

VS Code 1.72 enhances Git source control

The latest version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code code editor focuses on improvements to the toolbar and autoscrolling, as well as Git repos. Unveiled October 6, Visual Studio Code 1.72 is also ...
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VS Code Now Stamps GitHub Copilot as Git Commit Co-Author

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped ...
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Microsoft reverses VS Code change that credited Copilot without use

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code change that automatically added 'Co-authored-by: Copilot' to Git commits even when the AI assistant was not used. The change, introduced in April, drew ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...