Log entries have to be processed before displaying them.Ĭan double-click in log list to compare with previous revision However, this option is slower, because all descendantĬommits are shown before their parents). '-topo-order' makes the commits appear in topological order (i.e. Normally log entries/commits are ordered in descending order of the commit date. Space on your screen use the short format.Īn asterisk is inserted as the prefix of log message in Log dialog. If the standard long messages use up too much Message itself in the middle pane of the Revision Logĭialog, and when composing log messages in the Commit Selects the font face and size used to display the log To prevent from carelessly clicking the TortoiseGit actions.
If you right click and drag folder/file in Windows Explorer,Ī context menu will be shown when you drop. TortoiseGit's context menu to appear at all, you can list them in If there are some paths on your computer where you just don't want Shift key down while showing the context menu. Get the entries back for unversioned folders by holding the But the entries areĪdded for all items and paths in a versioned folder. To the context menu for unversioned folders. If you check the option Hide menusįor unversioned paths, TortoiseGit will not add its entries Versioned folders, you only really need the context menu when you Most of the time, you won't need the TortoiseGit context menu, apartįor folders that are under version control by Git. This page allows you to specify which of the TortoiseGit context menuĮntries will show up in the main context menu, and which will appear By default, TortoiseGit uses the Windows home directory which is normally located under c:\Users and Msys2 uses its own home directories which are located under \home.ģ) Configure AutoCrLf, this is necessary as TortoiseGit and Msys2 Git might have different defaults.Ĥ) Go to TortoiseGit Section 2.36.10, “Advanced Settings” and set Msys2Hack to true in order to activate Msys2 workarounds.
Use the normal Windows notation here (e.g., "C:\Users\USERNAME"). If you really want to use it here are the steps you have to perform:ġ) Select the \usr\bin-folder as git.exe folder.Ģ) Configure the HOME environment variable in Windows, so that Msys2 and TortoiseGit are using the same home directory and global git-config. The TortoiseGit developers only use Git for Windows. The default in Cygwin Git is true.Ĥ) Go to TortoiseGit Section 2.36.10, “Advanced Settings” and set CygwinHack to true in order to activate cygwin workarounds.Īs noted above: There is no official support for Msys2 git in TortoiseGit (do not enable this for the "Git for Windows package!). By default, TortoiseGit uses the Windows home directory which is normally located under c:\Users and Cygwin uses its own home directories which are located under \home.ģ) Configure AutoCrLf, this is necessary as TortoiseGit and Cygwin Git have different defaults. If you really want to use it here are the steps you have to perform:ġ) Select the \bin-folder as git.exe folder.Ģ) Configure the HOME environment variable in Windows, so that Cygwin and TortoiseGit are using the same home directory and global git-config. Often you can see if you need this when you start git.exe in \mingw\bin-folder and you get a messagebox saying that a dll is missing.Īs noted above: There is no official support for Cygwin git in TortoiseGit (do not enable this for the "Git for Windows package!). entered in the Extra PATH textbox) in order to execute git.exe. In this case it is necessary that the \mingw\bin-folder is on the path (i.e. This is especially needed if you installed the developer version of msysGit ("Full installer (self-contained) if you want to hack on Git" with the filename msysGit-fullinstall-*.exe), You can enter it here and it will get added to the PATH environment variable automatically when TortoiseGit starts. If your git installation needs an extra entry in the PATH environment variable, Then start TortoiseGit settings, click on Check now and observe the debug messages. In order to debug problems you can open TortoiseGit advanced settings and set "DebugOutputString" to "true" ( Section 2.36.10, “Advanced Settings”).