You can use a local Git repository, or work with Git in Azure Devops and Visual Studio Team Services. Code can be quickly branched for your own work, creating local branches from remote masters.

As expected following its recent purchase of GitHub, Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE is seeing stronger integrations with the development platform and open source code repository.

You’re not making a clone of the repo; instead you’re using GitHub’s APIs to work directly against your cloud-hosted code. Github.dev isn’t a replacement for a local editor.