The username is the email address you used to generate the Git password previously. Visual Studio will prompt you for the username and password.

In the Local Git Repositories section, choose the Clone option and add the Git URL for your CSR repo, choose a local directory and press the Clone button.

To start, choose View | Team Explorer in Visual Studio.

Now that you have your CSR Git URL, username and password, you have what you need to use your CSR repo from Visual Studio. You can ignore the instructions about putting a command into your .netrc file, since Visual Studio will ask you for your username/password pair directly.

From the browse window that pops up, gather the Git password (which goes along with the email you used to authenticate).

Click “Generate and store your Git credentials” (and not the OK button).

One easy way to do this is to use the Copy button to put the entire git clone command into your clipboard and then trim it to just the URL portion.

Copy the URL starting with into your clipboard and save it for later.

Change the preferred authentication method to “Manually generated credentials”.

Then, open the drop-down again and select “Clone repository”. Select the Source Code section and choose the repo that you’d like to access locally from the drop-down. Go to the “Development” section in the Google Cloud Console.

To get manually-generated credentials, do the following: CSR calls these “manually generated credentials” (as opposed to the Google Cloud SDK generated credentials which are the default). To log into your CSR repos from within Visual Studio, you’ll need credentials that Visual Studio expects, i.e. a username and password pair. JAccess Google Cloud Source Repositories from Visual StudioĬloud Source Repositories ( CSR) provides support for multiple Git repositories for each project.

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