Along with .NET 5, Microsoft today shipped Visual Studio 2019 v16.8, which sees Git turned on by default as the version control experience in the latest update of the company's flagship IDE.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.

Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

Visual Studio Code, the popular development text editor and IDE, has rolled out its big July 2025 release. The v1.103 update adds new Git and terminal integrations, better language support, and more.

Also the Visual Studio tooling support for Git is almost blank. The compiled version of the add-in is available in the Visual Studio Gallery.

Git-related improvements in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 allow developers to compare a current branch with other branches in their repository, making it easier to keep track of branches while ...