git not working in visual studio code

git visual-studio-code githooks husky
vihang shah picture vihang shah · Aug 10, 2017 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

I must have messed up something I have installed husky in my project. Then I ran precommit command. Now when I run git command, it is not working and asking me how do you want to open the file, so I removed husky using npm prune and then removed hooks folder from /.git of project directory but still didn't help. I am using windows 10

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MartinDuo picture MartinDuo · Dec 8, 2017

I had the same problem of Git not working in VSCode. After reading some of the earlier posts with their answers of deleting and reinstalling Git and Github, I discovered that I had the Atom GitHub package installed from prior experiments. I deleted Atom and restarted VSCode and it now works with the Git repo. That's all it took.

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