Visual Studio & Git & BitBucket: how to get started

I am not very knowledgeable when it comes to version control systems (something I really have to develop myself further in), but luckily many tools work pretty well out of the box. A very simple way to get started with VCS is to use Visual Studio's built-in-Git with BitBucket.

HOW TO:

• Create a new empty repository in BitBucket
• Create your to-be-version-controlled project in Visual Studio
• Add the project to version control and choose 'Git'
• Go to Team Explorer
• Go to 'Changes'
• Type 'initial commit' in the textbox
• Click to the 'Commit' button
• Choose 'Commit and push'
• VS will give an error message that no remote repository is linked to the project
• In that same error-message-screen will be a textbox where you can add the url of the remote repo.
• Copy-paste there the URL to your BitBucket repo and...
• Done!