TortoiseGit (as of 2.14) requires a command-line git.exe. It works with a variety of different “git.exe providers”. Known to work are: Git for Windows 2.24+ (https://gitforwindows.org/, based on MSYS2; portable and installer are known to work; recommended; for Git for Windows >= 2.16 you need at least TortoiseGit 2.5.7; older versions of Git are not … Read more
Github Has Revoked the support for password authentication on 13 Aug 2021 and giving the below mentioned response: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021 In order to fix the issue follow the below steps: Goto settings of Github account Find and Select Developer Settings Find and Select Personal access tokens Generate … Read more
For anyone looking to change an existing TortoiseGit installation to use PuTTY rather than OpenSSH, simply right-click, -> TortoiseGit -> Settings -> Network, then change ‘ssh.exe’ to ‘tortoiseplink.exe’. From then on, doing a push/pull should be using Pageant (and any keys you have set up in there) if you also have that running.
Yeah you can pull the changes from the original repo into your fork. Add a remote to it ( since origin will be your fork ) and pull. This from GitHub help: First up, add a remote to the original repo. Help here: http://help.github.com/remotes/ Then you can pull in updates to the original repo. Quote … Read more
No tweaks needed. Just make TortoiseGit point to the same ssh client used by git itself, see the screenshot: This should be C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\ssh.exe in latest version of Git as mentioned by Aleksey Kontsevich in the comments.
I think, you lose a lot of functionality of Git when you use TortoiseGit. From my point of view, TortoiseGit gives the user the feeling of using SVN while the actual back-end is Git. When I was working with SVN repos, the only client I used was TortoiseSVN. No console at all. But learning Git … Read more
Git for Windows has its own trust store of trusted certificates which is normally located in the file Git for Windows <=1.9: [Git installdir]\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt (e.g., C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt; configured by the key http.sslCAinfo in [Git installdir]\etc\gitconfig). Git for Windows >= 2.0: [Git installdir]\mingwXX\ssl\certs\ca-bundle.crt where XX stands for 32 or 64 (e.g., C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ssl\certs\ca-bundle.crt; configured by … Read more
Normally the invalid credentials should be purged automatically (after one unsuccessful authentication attempt). Go to the Windows Credential Manager (press Windows and type “Credential Manager”, or go to Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\Credential Manager or use Start->Run rundll32.exe keymgr.dll,KRShowKeyMgr), there all saved credentials should be listed (prefixed with git:). For ways to also remove … Read more
For TortoiseGit 1.8.1.2 or later, there is a GUI to switch on/off credential helper. It supports git-credential-wincred and git-credential-winstore. TortoiseGit 1.8.16 add support for git-credential-manager (Git Credential Manager, the successor of git-credential-winstore) For the first time you sync you are asked for user and password, you enter them and they will be saved to Windows … Read more
I fought with this problem for a few hours before stumbling on the obvious answer. The problem I had was I was using different ssh implementations between when I generated my keys and when I used git. I used ssh-keygen from the command prompt to generate my keys and but when I tried “git clone … Read more