Section 3 - Browsing History: Lesson 16 - Using GitLens

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Greetings and Salutations to all! I would like to know if I could please draw someone’s attention to this confusion I have. I am working in Section 3 - Browsing History, doing lesson 16 - Using GitLens in VSCode but how is it that I am supposed to access the history of the file that we are working on?

NOTE - We are asked to download the zip file named “Venus” and to save it in our device. BUT, I never noticed any instructions that lead us to clone a repository that contained previous commits.

QUESTION - Did anyone see those instructions in previous lectures in section 3 from lessons 2 to 15?

When I get to lesson 16, and I search for these commits using GitLens, I get nothing. Is this just to show what we can do with GitLens or is there something I am missing?

SoS anyone, please.

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Not much detail to go on, but perhaps the copied file permissions did not get setup correctly? In particular you probably care about the file permissions on the .git directory. Depending on how you extract the files it is possible to accidentally end up with read-only stuff rather than having write access to things (and Git definitely needs write access to that .git directory). If you are using MacOS or any Linux/Unix OS you can use chmod +w to add the write permissions.