Git extension for Windows

[TheLuda]

Yes, finally there is some more Git love on Windows!

Check out this Git repository, you will find a shell extension that enables Git usage from shell, and a Visual Studio 2008 plugin for Git.

I think this is what all the SVN loving people have waited for

Give it a try.

[jdguzman]

Yes, finally there is some more Git love on Windows!

Check out this Git repository, you will find a shell extension that enables Git usage from shell, and a Visual Studio 2008 plugin for Git.

I think this is what all the SVN loving people have waited for

Give it a try.

I saw that yesterday myself however looking through the source code it still seems to be heavily reliant on running git through mingw or cygwin as it is only a wrapper for the process. Being an accomplished developer i'm sure you noticed that all it does is call the git.exe process and redirect in/output.

What would be REALLY nice is a git library/dll which could be used to build git enabled apps. in that way there would be no need to have mingw or cygwin installed at all and i'm sure that would also translate to a performance boost on windows as well.

I have been contemplating making such a library in c# along the lines of the jgit library but alas time eludes me .

At any rate this is a nice advancement on the windows side for git i might give it a go sometime.

[Agmagor]

For people who don't want to build :

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=246547&package_id=300816

This tool stucks my shell

[SneakerXZ]

I have tried that and it's very unstable. It hasn't been even running on my PC. I have downloaded it and installed it and when I run it so It ended with some exception without any details.

[freghar]

Some say that Git Cheetah is the best git windows shell extension - http://repo.or.cz/w/git-cheetah.git/

[SneakerXZ]

Some say that Git Cheetah is the best git windows shell extension - http://repo.or.cz/w/git-cheetah.git/

Do you have any screenshot of Cheetah?

[freghar]

Do you have any screenshot of Cheetah?

Nope, I just tried it myself on a development git version of msysgit (with gcc, make, etc.) and got nothing more than a "git" and "git clone here" menu rows.

I'd anyway just suggest you to wait for tortoisegit, it's under heavy development as we speak.

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

[leak]

GitExtensionsSetup07.msi kills my explorer on every rightclick into a folder. (32bit winxp)

Is there a precompiled version of Cheetah?

[leak]

What now..?

How come not a single one of your 4 posts makes any sense to me?

[freghar]

What now..?

How come not a single one of your 4 posts makes any sense to me?

It has been noticed earlier, I plan to monitor such users and if they won't prove any non-bot like answers, they'll get deleted.

edit: 5th message proved it was a bot, so .. deleted and banned.

[TheLuda]

I've been trying out TortoiseGit recently, and I'm impressed. Works smoother than TortoiseSVN. The only issue I have found is tht you should use Git only with OpenSSH from msysgit, and not with Putty or TortoisePLink, as ssh authentication with those does seem to fail with TortoiseGit.

[leak]

@freghar

Good to know my weirdness detector worked

I'm usually not a shell hater but GitExtensions really made me stop using git by shell.

Also works fine under winxp x64 now.

http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/

Gonna take a peek at tgit again.

[Mythos]

I've been trying out TortoiseGit recently, and I'm impressed. Works smoother than TortoiseSVN. The only issue I have found is tht you should use Git only with OpenSSH from msysgit, and not with Putty or TortoisePLink, as ssh authentication with those does seem to fail with TortoiseGit.

Yeah TortoiseGit is cool, but I don't know how to merge :mellow:

German language file would be nice, too

Can you tell me how to merge a branch?

[yuuzai]

Yeah TortoiseGit is cool, but I don't know how to merge :mellow:

German language file would be nice, too

Can you tell me how to merge a branch?

commit first to your local copy...

you right-click the source folder, then select "TortoiseGit > Merge"...

then select the branch to merge, ex: "remotes/origin/master"...

then press OK...

you'll get a list of merge results (Added, Modified, Conflict)...

you double-click an entry to view the changes in TortoiseDiff...

for conflicts, you must fix them in TortoiseDiff then choose "Mark as Resolved"...