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I've been using TortoiseSVN for several years now, but am thinking of slowly changing to git, as I really like its branching and merging. I'm currently using git via the command line but am considering installing TortoiseGit. Has anyone had experience of using the two Tortoises side-by-side? Any known issues with this? I would really like not to screw up my SVN installation, as I will be using it for my existing projects.
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TortoiseGit can be classified as a tool in the "Git Tools" category, while TortoiseSVN is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control". TortoiseSVN is an open source tool with 39 GitHub stars and 29 GitHub forks.
You can checkout a git repository but you can't do most of other operations. You can setup tortoise git which provides same interface for Git although the commands are different.
If checked, TortoiseGit will contact its download site once a week to see if there is a newer version of the program available. Use Check now if you want an answer right away. The new version will not be downloaded; you simply receive an information dialog telling you that the new version is available.
You can use GitLab with any git client, including but not limited to TortoiseGit and the built-in git CLI. On the hand hand, you can use TortoiseGit with any local or remote git repo host, including but not limited to GitLab.
I've been using it for a couple of months now. There are no issues that I've seen with them interacting and overlays work as expected.
I'm running the 64-bit versions on Win 7
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The risk is that some of the icon overlays may not appear, especially if you have OneDrive or DropBox or some other app installed that decorates file icons. These are governed by the max allowed entries in the Windows Registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer \ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers. The max appears to be 15. See this article in Stack Overflow
However, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseGit appear to share the same named overlays, so there does not appear to be a risk of some appearing, and others not.
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