As you imagined there is the "Vim" way to do everything. But the good news is that there are many a plugin to make this process easier. Lets start off by learning some built in vim ways and then expand from there.

First, lets clone a small test repo

ssh

git clone git@github.com:ThePrimeagen/vim-nav-playground.git

https

git clone https://github.com/ThePrimeagen/vim-nav-playground.git

navigate to vim-nav-playground and open up vim by opening up the directory in vim.

cd vim-nav-playground
vim .

This should be what you are seeing (bar the colorscheme)