Git Extensions¶
Git Extensions is a toolkit aimed at making working with Git under Windows more intuitive. The shell extension will integrate in Windows Explorer and presents a context menu on files and directories. There is also a Visual Studio extension to use Git from the Visual Studio IDE.
Features¶
Feature rich user interface for Git
32bit and 64bit support
Windows Explorer integration for Git
Visual Studio extension (2015-2022)
Specific in 2.5x releases:
Visual Studio (2010 - 2015) add-in
Runs under Linux or Mac OS X using Mono
Basic SVN functionality
For description of 2.x specific features, see the 2.x documentation
Video tutorials¶
There are video tutorials for some basic functions on YouTube (made for older Git Extensions versions).
Links¶
See the following links for the Git Extensions download page, source code and documentation.
Download page: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/releases
Source Code: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions
Source Code Issue tracker: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/issues
Documentation: https://github.com/gitextensions/GitExtensionsDoc
Documentation Issue tracker: https://github.com/gitextensions/GitExtensionsDoc/issues
Please feel free to raise any issues with Git Extensions or its documentation at the appropriate Issue tracker link as shown above.