Top "Tortoisegit" questions

TortoiseGit is an open-source Windows-based application that allows the Git distributed revision control system to be used directly from Windows Explorer (using context menus).

How to get icon overlays with git-extensions

I have been using svn for quite some time now. But now I have shifted to git. As per my …

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Cannot pick an SSH client when installing TortoiseGIT

I installed TortoiseGIT using TortoisePink as my SSH client. But I later found out that that was not the correct …

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How to compare changesets in Git?

Git makes it very easy to compare differences between commits, using for instance the git commands diff and difftool. Also …

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In TortoiseGit, which one is MERGE_HEAD and which one is HEAD?

This is an easy question, but git is really confusing with it's labels, and I couldn't find an answer. When …

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libgit2 returned: Refspec 'refs/heads/origin/HEAD' not found error in TortoiseGit

I got this error when starting up TortoiseGit: Could not get all refs. libgit2 returned: Refspec 'refs/heads/origin/HEAD' …

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Is TortoiseGit ready for prime time yet?

I'm a big fan of the simplicity of TortoiseSVN. I also am interested in digging into git, and think it …

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Can I update a forked project, on git, to the original/master copy?

A few weeks ago i forked a public project on GitHub. Today, I wish to try some stuff on it …

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undo revert in git or tortoisegit

Is there an easy way to undo a tortoisegit revert? Here's more info: I just committed a large multi-file checkin, …

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How to remove unused git branches

How can one remove unused git bracnhes from Tortoise-Git? These branches have been removed both locally and remotely, i'd like …

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Git rebase fails with conflicts, but there are no conflicts

I tried to do a rebase on code that I had committed but not pushed, because I had heard that …

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