GitHub and Visual Studio

Question

What's the most painless way for the Visual Studio developer to start using GitHub? Ideally the answer would involve a Visual Studio plugin, or some other integration app?

• What solutions are available today to view/update GitHub repositories?
• Can you rely or expect the same functionality as compared to other VS integrated source control plugins?
• What processes would you change, as a user, when approaching this use-case from the TFS or SourecGear Vault scenarios?
• The current use case is in single-developer mode, but certainly this question is open to single dev and teams of any size.
• Any tools that are Visual Studio plug-ins would be considered 'top of the list'

Answer 1

Have a look at tortoisegit . It is not a visual studio plugin but it provides a gui interface to the world of git (which can be irritating at first).

Answer 2

See this question for general hints using git with Visual Studio.

The accepted answer was the Git Extensions project.

I'm not aware that github would require any specific extras beyond that.