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VS Code & Portable GIT shell integration in Windows

Visual Studio Code & GIT Portable shell Integration Summary Many of your corporate laptop cannot install programs and it is quite good to have them as portable executables. Here we find a way to have Portable VS Code and Portable GIT and integrate the GIT shell into VS Code Pre-Reqs VS Code (Install version or Portable ) GIT portable Steps Create a directory in your Windows device (eg:  C:\installables\ ) Unpack GIT portable into the above directory (eg it becomes: C:\installables\PortableGit ) Now unpack Visual Studio (VS) Code and run it. The default shell would be windows based Update User or Workspace settings of VS Code (ShortCut is:  Control+Shift+p ) Update the settings with following setting { "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+", "git.ignoreMissingGitWarning": true, "git.enabled": true, "git.path": "C:\\installables\\PortableGit\\bin\\git.exe", "terminal.integrated.shell.windows"