VS Code & Portable GIT shell integration in Windows

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 )
• Search for 'Open Workspace Settings (JSON)' and press Enter
  
• Update the settings with following setting

    {
        "workbench.colorTheme": "Default Dark+",
        "git.ignoreMissingGitWarning": true,
        "git.enabled": true,
        "terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
           "git_bash"" { 
              "path": "C:\\installables\\PortableGit\\bin\\bash.exe"
           } 
         },
        "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows": "git_bash"
     }