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1. About Visual Studio Code
2. Feedback
3. Documentation Issues
4. Contributing to the documentation
5. Publishing

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To contribute new topics/information or make changes to existing documentation, please read the Contributing Guideline.

The two suggested workflows are:

• For small changes, use the "Edit" button on each page to edit the Markdown file directly on GitHub.
• If you plan to make significant changes or preview the Markdown files in VS Code, clone the repo to edit and preview the files directly in VS Code.

1. Install Git LFS.
2. Run git lfs install to setup global git hooks. You only need to run this once per machine.
3. git clone [email protected]:Microsoft/vscode-docs.git.
4. Now you can git add binary files and commit them. They'll be tracked in LFS.

You might want to clone the repo without the 1.6GB images. Here are the steps:

1. Install Git LFS.
2. Run git lfs install to setup global git hooks. You only need to run this once per machine.
3. Clone the repo without binary files.
   • macOS / Linux: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone [email protected]:Microsoft/vscode-docs.git.
   • Windows: $env:GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE="1"; git clone [email protected]:Microsoft/vscode-docs.git.
4. Now you can selectively checkout some binary files to work with. For example:
   • git lfs pull -I "docs/nodejs" to only download images in docs/nodejs
   • git lfs pull -I "release-notes/images/1_4*/*" to only download images in release-notes/images/1_4*
   • git lfs pull -I "docs,api" to download all images in docs and in api
   • git lfs pull -I <PATTERN>, as long as <PATTERN> is a valid Git LFS Include and Exclude pattern.

The history of this repo before we adopted LFS can be found at microsoft/vscode-docs-archive.

Steps for how to publish documentation changes can be found here in the (private) repository of the VS Code website.