After you provide your GitHub or GitHub Enterprise credentials to GitHub for Visual Studio, the extension automatically detects the personal, collaborator and organization repositories you have access to on your account.
Open Team Explorer by clicking on its tab next to Solution Explorer, or via the View menu. Click the Manage Connections toolbar button.
Next to the account you want to clone from, click Clone.
Using Visual Studio 2017, click the GitHub button on the Start Page to open the clone dialog.
Using Visual Studio 2019, on the Start Window select Clone or check out code and then click the GitHub button to open the clone dialog.
Go to File > Open > Open From GitHub...
- In the list of repositories, scroll until you find the repository you'd like to clone.
You can also filter the repository results by using the Filter text box.
In addition to using the list of personal, collaborator and organization repositories, you can enter a repository URL to clone a public repository.
- If desired, change the local path that the repository will be cloned into, or leave the default as-is.
- Once a repository is selected and the path is set, Click Clone.
- In Team Explorer, under the list of solutions, double-click on a solution to open it in Visual Studio.
For any repository that you select from the list or provide a URL for that you already have cloned locally, the Open button becomes enabled and a message shows that you have already cloned the repository to that location.
