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).

1. Clone

2. Commit changes

3. Push changes

4. Pull changes

5. Handle merge conflicts

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

• 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.