Troubleshooting Visual Studio 2019

How to Make Visual Studio 2019 work with GitHub

1. Open Visual Studio
2. Navigate to Tools -> Options
   
3. Navigate to Source Control and set the Source Control Plugin to Git
4. Navigate to the Team Explorer Window and click the Home button
   
5. Open the Settings menu and click Global Settings
   
6. Set the Cryptographic network provider to “Secure Channel”
   
7. Open File Explorer and navigate to:
   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32\bin
   
8. In the whitespace, “Shift + Right Click” and select Open PowerShell Window here
   
9. Run the following command to verify the settings of http.sslbackend=schannel
   .\git config --global --list
   
10. Run the following command to set http.schannelCheckRevoke to false
    .\git config --global http.schannelCheckRevoke false
    
11. Run the following command to verify the settings of http.schannelCheckRevoke=false
    .\git config --global --list
    

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