Git Extensions
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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
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* 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 <https://www.mono-project.com>`_
* Basic SVN functionality

For description of 2.x specific features, see the `2.x documentation <../release-2.51/git_extensions.html>`_

Video tutorials
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There are video tutorials for some basic functions on YouTube (made for older Git Extensions versions).

#. `Clone <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlZXSkJGKF8>`_
#. `Commit changes <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8uvje6X7lo>`_
#. `Push changes <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JByfXdbVAiE>`_
#. `Pull changes <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g8gXPsi5Ko>`_
#. `Handle merge conflicts <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmc39RvuGM8>`_

Links
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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
* Wiki: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/wiki

Please feel free to raise any issues with Git Extensions or its documentation at the appropriate Issue tracker link as shown above.