git-extensions

GitHub noobian, should I install msysGit or Cygwin?

I intend to use GitHub with Git Extensions and possibly integrate with FogBugz (optional). Looking at the download page and reading some rather technical half related questions I wanted to see what you thought would be better to install on Windows 7, given I want to integrate with Visual Studio 2008 (thinking this would be through GitEx...

Git integration in visual studio broken

using visual studio 2008, 9.0.30729.1 SP1 Installed (msys) git, git versin 1.6.5.1.1367.gcd48, git-gui 0.12.0.23.ga91be. i have the GIT menu in the menu bar, and git icons in the toolbar, but clicking them doesn't have any effect any more. It worked before, on my previous laptop. But that was probably a (little) older git version, and m...

How to use Winmerge with Git Extensions?

I'm using Git Extensions and it pre-installs and sets up KDiff as the diff tool to solve merge conflicts. I'm very fond of Winmerge though and would like to replace KDiff with Winmerge. In the Git Extensions settings, there are settings to change the Mergetool, but I can't seem to figure out what syntax I should use and why. There seem ...

Commiting changes accross projects in Visual Studio 2008 with Git Extensions

Imagine a solution in Visual Studio 2008 that consists of three projects. Two of them are file-system wise located under the solution home directory and a third one that has been added via Add Existing project from a location outside the solution. The first two projects are part of the git repository covering the solution directory whi...

Git Extensions guide?

Is there a quick-start guide to using Git Extensions for basic tasks such as checkout, checkin, undo-checkout, etc, especially for users coming from the Microsoft world? ...

How to handle pull requests with Git Extensions?

I have a public repository on github that I'm having trouble handling pull requests with inside GitExtensions. I've done 3 so far, and I don't think any of them have worked properly or worked where I want them to. On the 19th, I tried to handle a pull request that Yi Jiang created. In GitExtensions, I did a pull within GitExtensions,...