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Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of advantages of using submodules:

• You can separate the code into different repositories.

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VS Code's CMake Tools integration with vcpkg

Add the "cmake.configureSettings" section to vs code's settings.json.

For remote development, using 'open remote settings' to open settings.json.

{
    "cmake.configureSettings": {
        "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "<vcpkg root folder>/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
    }
}