How to access the api for git in visual studio code

Question

I want to use the vscode git api in one my extension to do git clone and other tasks. Is it accessible from the vscode api ? The code is present here.. api

Answer 1

Twitter to the rescue! I asked there and was pointed to the API definitions here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/git/src/api/git.d.ts

...and an example here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github/blob/master/src/extension.ts#L53

const gitExtension = vscode.extensions.getExtension<GitExtension>('vscode.git').exports;
const api = gitExtension.getAPI(1);

const rootPath = vscode.workspace.rootPath;
const repository = api.repositories.filter(r => isDescendant(r.rootUri.fsPath, rootPath))[0];