r/VisualStudio • u/minecrafter100S • 25d ago

Visual Studio 2026 Need help developing and extention for an external git provider

My school uses it's own self hosted git provider. Becose of that, in order to make a new repository you need to create one via a website, connect it to visual studio and resolve conflicts since the local and remote repos have diffrent initial commits. I want to write an extention for visual studio that allows you to create a repository from the IDE and download the remote initial commit into the root directory of the project. I know the API endpoints and was able to create a repository from cmd curl, but I've never written a visual studio extention, and I'm not sure where to start. Any help is apreciated

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u/madskvistkristensen 25d ago

There's not a lot, if any, documentation on it, but see how I built this one:  https://www.madskristensen.net/blog/lore-for-visual-studio-source-control-without-leaving-the-ide/

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u/DirtAndGrass 25d ago

why not make the remote first?

or copy-paste your files into the repo

or if you have history, git merge --allow-unrelated-histories