
Upon installing it will likely prompt you to log into GitHub. To be more concise, installing it will help to automate the login process to GitHub. The last sentence was nearly word for word from the extensions description. REASON 4 INSTALLING - This is a GitHub extension that everyone using GitHub should use, but it also does something to help with Terminal integration that enables UI and CLIs to co-exist. Link to open in VS Code: vscode:extension/GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github


The revisions were prompted by changes to the UI and changes to GitHub's own defined protocol that defines the login process (I am specifically referring to GitHub now requiring a PAT security token to be used to authenticate anything pushed using the HTTPS protocol). There have been 3 major edits (or revisions is probably the more appropriate term to use here), that were necessary in order to keep this answer relevant and up to date.

The most recent edit was on September 14th of 2022 at approx 10am UTC. This question has been edited several times to keep it useful, and current.
