Create project from git repo?

[davew]

It seems that with git integration, there should be a way to create a project from a git repo. Is there a way to do this?
It would have to recurse into submodules as well.
At a minimum, it would be good to be able to create a project from a file which has a listing of files. Then I could export the list of files in a git repo and import them into VS.

[Dan]

There isn't currently a built in way to do this.  You could check the repository and and then use Add Tree to add all of the files to a project.  This is two steps, but it's pretty easy.

[davew]

Hi Dan, thanks for the response. I already do this. However, sometimes I want to find something in a file with a file extension that I don't normally add to the project. If I use *.*, then I am searching binary files as well that take a long time to search. I may need to search for some text in a file extension that I'm not familiar with, but the file would be tracked in git.