You’ve lost your HEAD so you’ll need to recreate it. The simplest thing to do is this. echo ref: refs/heads/master >.git/HEAD Now you should be able to run other git commands and see where you’re at. (Although, in theory, you could attempt to do git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master newer git versions don’t recognize a .git … Read more
go to \Control Panel\User Accounts\Credential Manager click on windows credentials and edit the corresponding credentials
In a File Manager, Open your Project root directory (where your .git folder is found). Right click and go to: TortoiseGit > Switch/Checkout Ensure the Switch To Option to Branch. Then click the little button to the side of the drop down menu that is denoted by … A window will pop up showing the … Read more
I had the exact same issue as you and spent hours trying to get it to work, including re-cloning. I solved it on my end by adding the *.VC.opendb and *.VC.db files to the .gitignore file of my project. As soon as I returned to Visual Studio all my pending changes were showing. As far … Read more
The following settings work fine for me. However, I am using TortoiseGit not TortoiseSVN. Notice the difference in the parameters for diff. [diff] tool = tortoisediff [difftool] prompt = false [merge] tool = tortoisemerge [mergetool] prompt = false keepBackup = false [difftool “tortoisediff”] cmd = \””c:/Program Files/TortoiseGIT/bin/TortoiseGitMerge.exe”\” -mine “$REMOTE” -base “$LOCAL” [mergetool “tortoisemerge”] cmd = … Read more
This works for me using TortoiseGit 1.7.12: Right-click on the working directory where you want to do an interactive rebase and choose TortoiseGit -> Show log from the context menu. In the appearing “Log Messages” dialog, right-click on the most recent commit that you would not like to rebase anymore and choose Rebase master onto … Read more
No tweaks needed. Just make TortoiseGit point to the same ssh client used by git itself, see the screenshot: This should be C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe in latest version of Git as mentioned by Aleksey Kontsevich in the comments.
I fought with this problem for a few hours before stumbling on the obvious answer. The problem I had was I was using different ssh implementations between when I generated my keys and when I used git. I used ssh-keygen from the command prompt to generate my keys and but when I tried “git clone … Read more
I ran into the same problem, but wasn’t willing to rename or delete these files. So here’s a workaround in case you can live without accessing those files using a sparse-checkout: Go to the .git folder in your repo and open the file config. (You can also edit your configuration using tortoise-git, but I havn’t … Read more
For me there was a problem to perform actions against the remote repository only when using TortoiseGit, through CMD / GitBash there have been no issue at all. So what I did was Very simple: I opened TortoiseGit–>Settings –> Network and in SSH Client I changed to “C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe” instead of “TortoiseGitPlink.exe”.