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What are the benefits and disadvantage of using either Git Extensions or TortoiseGit on a Windows Based OS?
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TortoiseGit is a free open-source client for the Git version control system. That is, TortoiseGit manages files over time. Files are stored in a local repository. The repository is much like an ordinary file server, except that it remembers every change ever made to your files and directories.
As illustrated here, GitHub for Windows (G4W) can interface with only the latest version of Visual Studio. This is the main difference, in the context of your question, with Git Extensions, which is a plugin for Visual Studio (2005/2008/2010/2012), as shown in this article.
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.
Find the id_rsa file that you created in step (3), you will be prompted for your passphrase. Enter it. IMPORTANT: bring up the TortoiseGit context menu, go to settings .
I don't know GitExtensions, but I can share my experience with TortoiseGit (alluded to by marc_s's comment):
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The problem with TortoiseGit is that people who worked with TortoiseSVN will think everything will (or should) work exactly like in SVN... and end up never really understanding how to work with git. As a personal experience, the company I work migrated from SVN to git after 2 years, and every single developer that used TortoiseGit ended up not really knowing what they are doing and sometimes screwing up their local repositories. In the end, they dropped TortoiseGit and spend time learning git "the hard way" (shell, msysGit on Windows) and everyone has been happy since then.
Conclusion: Just use msysGit directly and properly learn git. You will avoid many headaches in the future.
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