# Global setting for all you repositories > git config –global gui.encoding utf-8 # For one repository only > git config gui.encoding utf-8 Or from the GUI window: Edit -> Options… -> Default File Contents Encoding -> Change and select “Unicode (UTF-8)” In the Options, you’ll see that there are two panel, the one on … Read more
I couldn’t find the answer myself, so I created a custom action. Go to Preferences, Custom Actions, and enter the following info: (This is on a Mac. Your path to the git executable may vary.)
Add this to the .gitconfig file in your home directory to add rebase commands to the Tools menu: [guitool “Rebase onto…”] cmd = git rebase $REVISION revprompt = yes [guitool “Rebase/Continue”] cmd = git rebase –continue [guitool “Rebase/Skip”] cmd = git rebase –skip [guitool “Rebase/Abort”] cmd = git rebase –abort [guitool “Pull with Rebase”] cmd … Read more
Select a file, whether in the ‘working copy’ display or in the ‘commit’ display, and do one of three things: option-command-B menu bar :: Actions :: Blame Selected… contextual menu :: Blame Selected… If the file you want to blame is not in the modified files list, you need to change the view to File … Read more
For Windows users the are two choices as well: 1) Set the LANG environment variable to en. a) Overall for Windows: http://www.itechtalk.com/thread3595.html b) For the git shell only: If you don’t want to affect anything else except git applications you might add the following line in the beginning of C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.cmd file: @set LANG=en Please … Read more
Just simply skipping the pop up, as How to skip “Loose Object” popup when running ‘git gui’ suggests in the accepted answer is overlooking the fact that Git is communicating a possible performance issue to you. This should be fixable by running this command from the command line: cd path/to/your/git/repo git gc –aggressive From the … Read more
Well, I found this useful forum post: https://web.archive.org/web/20200211180001/http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/No-quot-pull-quot-in-git-gui-td1121058.html A fetch and merge should be done. It seems you need to go to “Remote” menu, then “Fetch from” option , in my case origin, and then go to “Merge Menu” and then “Local Merge…”.
Since nobody had yet an answer, I looked into the code to see how to remove the code which shows up that dialog. I found the hint_gc procedure which does it and the place where it is called. At the same time I noticed that late 2011 there was added a configuration option for disabling … Read more
GitHub released a native Windows client which makes all the below steps redundant. You can also use Sourcetree to get both Git and Mercurial setup on Windows. Here is how you would do it in Windows: If you don’t have Git installed, see this article on how to set it up. Open up a Windows … Read more
You can safely remove a branch with git branch -d yourbranch. If it contains unmerged changes (ie, you would lose commits by deleting the branch), git will tell you and won’t delete it. So, deleting a merged branch is cheap and won’t make you lose any history. To delete a remote branch, use git push … Read more