Choosing TortoiseGit’s Status Cache for Fast Explorer Overlays
Learn how TortoiseGit’s Status Cache setting controls overlay icon performance and when to disable or scope it for large or network‑hosted repositories.
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gitTortoiseGit Restore: Missing Context Menu After Failed Upgrade
After a recent TortoiseGit update, the context‑menu entries in Windows Explorer disappear, indicating a broken shell extension registration. The goal is to recover the full context‑menu functionality while preserving the user’s configuration stored in the registry. Key constraints include the need for administrative privileges during repair, the possibility
TortoiseGit Shell Extension and Git for Windows: which ignore file does "Add to ignore list" actually update?
Goal I want a predictable way to manage ignore rules from TortoiseGit's context menu so that files ignored via the GUI behave identically to files ignored by editing .gitignore from the Git CLI. The two components involved are the TortoiseGit Windows Shell Extension and the Git for Windows binary it wraps (TortoiseGit 2.x with a current Git for Windows insta
tortoisegitTortoiseGit and Git for Windows: Global git.exe Path Limits with Multiple Distributions
TortoiseGit acts as a Windows Explorer shell extension and GUI front end, delegating all repository operations to an external git.exe . On machines where Git for Windows coexists with other distributions such as MSYS2 or portable builds, the integration boundary becomes the global Git.exe path setting. Because TortoiseGit does not bundle Git, the installer a