Yes, there are official instructions in the docs. In practice, I find this workflow useful: Right click a file you want to partially commit Click Restore after commit – This immediately creates an internal copy of the file. Double click the file to edit in TortoiseGitMerge Right click -> Mark this block for each change … Read more
YES, it’s ready! TortoiseGit has come a long way since 2009. And now Microsoft Windows has the best graphical interface to git 😉 It’s especially nice for people that used TortoiseSVN, because it uses familiar dialogs and terminology. Like “Revert..” instead of “Reset / Checkout” or that it abstracts away the “index” in a single … Read more
To compliment Cupcake’s answer, use the Personal Access token feature within GitHub.com while using TortoiseGit: Set up 2-step auth. Set up a personal access token – taking note of the generated token (use the Copy to clipboard button next to the generated token). Set TortoiseGit to remember your password as detailed here. Now perform a … Read more
Use “Sync Dialog” Right click the repository folder, choose “Sync” In “Out commits” tab, you will see a list of commits to be pushed to the remote. Switch to “Out ChangeList” tab, you will see a list of changed files relative to the remote version. If “Out commits” is empty or “Out ChangeList” tab does … Read more
Yes it does now: see issue 222 – it takes the same approach as TortoiseSVN where you: right-click on file, choose “Restore after commit” TSVN creates a copy of the file outside the working copy, the file is shown differently in > the commit dialog (maybe an overlay icon or a different color) user can … Read more
Create a directory right click, “Git Clone…” Enable”From SVN Repository” and select all further settings
Are you using any other tools while using TortoiseGit? For instance, this project mentions an interaction with Visual Studio: If you see errors about being unable to unlink old files when running git commands on Windows, it’s quite likely that you have the chrome solution open in Visual Studio and it’s updating IntelliSense, which will … Read more
Try these two commands in git bash: 1) git gc –force 2) git fetch -p
The internal behavior of Git (>=2.16.0) for SSH tool detection changed and TortoiseGitPlink is not detected any more as ssh or plink compatible. This only affects if the SSH URL contains a port or you have configured Git to use the Protocol version 2. For now, you need to set the environment variable GIT_SSH_VARIANT to … Read more
If you haven’t pushed your changes yet (so your commit is only local) TortoiseGit -> Show log Select the commit to which you want to rollback to Reset “<branch>” to this… If you have, then this can still be done, but then you’d have to also do a force-push (check “overwrite known changes” 1). 1 … Read more