TortoiseGit

Name: TortoiseGit
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)

TortoiseGit is a Windows Shell Interface to Git and based on TortoiseSVN. It's open source and can fully be build with freely available software.

Free • Open Source
Git Client
Version Control System

Windows

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What is TortoiseGit?

TortoiseGit is a Windows Shell Interface to Git and based on TortoiseSVN icon TortoiseSVN. It's open source and can fully be build with freely available software.

Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE like Microsoft Visual Studio icon Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse or others, you can use it with whatever development tools you like, and with any type of file. Main interaction with TortoiseGit will be using the context menu of the Windows explorer.

TortoiseGit supports you by regular tasks, such as committing, showing logs, diffing two versions, creating branches and tags, creating patches and so on (see our Screenshots or documentation).

It is developed under the GPL. Which means it is completely free for anyone to use, including in a commercial environment, without any restriction. The source code is also freely available, so you can even develop your own version if you wish to.

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TortoiseGit Screenshots

Tailored context menu for (ignored) .patch files

Overlay icons in explorer indicating the status of files and folders

TortoiseGitMerge: Diffing/Merging files/patches

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TortoiseGit Features

Git SupportTortoiseGit supports Git, a free and open source distributed version control system.
LightweightTortoiseGit consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.

TortoiseGit information

Developed bylznuaa, Sven Strickroth, Yue Lin Ho, ch3cooli
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
RatingAverage rating of 4
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b4st1en

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Was used to use TortoiseSvn, so when it cames to Git... Thanks for the good job !

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JackFosters

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Top positive comment• ago

Really good for those, who don't want to use Linux for work in GIT. THis software helps to do everything needed (pull, push, merge). And also the logo (turtle) is very nice, too :)

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MandyFloost

really helps in professional life. I am not a developer, and work with git in Win environment. Really like this!

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fibo

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TortoiseGit is really great for:

comparing a file with its previous version(s)
solving "3file conflicts" where a file contains conflictong snippets (**but **TortoiseGit "helps to create" them, see below)

TortoiseGit is really bad for:

detecting and preventing conflicts both at "pull" and "push" times
selecting easily files in a subdir (does not hint very well at select-time which files were really updated and need to be synced)

I am a happy TortoiseGit user for files comparisons, history, etc.

For staging I prefer Git-Bash or Git-GUI
For pulling I prefer Git-Bash
For pushing I prefer Git-GUI