TortoiseGit is a Windows shell interface to Git, based on TortoiseSVN. It's open source and fully buildable using free software.
Since it's not an integration of Visual Studio, Eclipse, or another specific IDE, you can use it with any development tool you like, and with any type of file. The main interaction with TortoiseGit will be using the Windows Explorer context menu.
TortoiseGit supports you with common tasks such as committing, showing logs, diffing two versions, creating branches and tags, creating patches, etc.
1. Features of TortoiseGit
- easy to use
- All commands are available directly from Windows Explorer ( see screenshot ).
- Show only commands that make sense for the selected file/folder. You won't see any commands that don't work in your case.
- View the status of files directly in Windows Explorer ( see screenshot )
- Descriptive dialogue, constantly improved due to user feedback
- Allows moving files by right-dragging them in Windows Explorer
- Powerful submit dialog ( see screenshot )
- Integrated log message spell checker
- Autocomplete path and keywords for modified files
- Format text with special characters
- per project settings
- Minimum log message length to avoid accidentally submitting empty log messages
- Languages for spell checking
- Integrate with Issue Tracking Systems
TortoiseGit provides a flexible mechanism to integrate with any web-based bug tracking system.- A separate input box for entering the issue number assigned to the commit, or coloring the issue number directly in the log message itself
- When displaying all log messages, an extra column is added with the issue number. You can immediately see which issue the commit belongs to.
- Issue numbers are converted to links that open a web browser directly on the corresponding issue
- Optional warning if a commit is not assigned to an issue number
- useful tool
- TortoiseGitMerge ( see screenshot and TortoiseGitMerge manual )