How to add a GitHub personal access token to Visual Studio Code

Follow these simple steps to set up GitHub authentication with a personal access token:

1. Open a command line window on your PC or Terminal on Mac

2. Set the current directory to your project root

   cd C:\Users\Giddy\source\repo\MySampleProject
   

3. Run the command to set remote access via a token

   git remote set-url origin https://username:token@github.com/username/repository.git
   

   Example:

   git remote set-url origin https://sampleuser:a7b19929***58fe65d1c@github.com/sampleuser/sampleproject.git