Enabling the overlay icons for TortoiseGit
Overlay icons for TortoiseGit
What is TortoiseGit?
TortoiseGit is a Windows Shell Interface to Git and based on TortoiseSVN. It’s open source and can fully be build with freely available software.
Since it’s not an integration for a specific IDE like Visual Studio, Eclipse or others, you can use it with whatever development tools you like, and with any type of file. Main interaction with TortoiseGit will be using the context menu of the Windows explorer.
TortoiseGit supports you by regular tasks, such as committing, showing logs, diffing two versions, creating branches and tags, creating patches and so on (see our Screenshots or documentation).
It is developed under the GPL. Which means it is completely free for anyone to use, including in a commercial environment, without any restriction. The source code is also freely available, so you can even develop your own version if you wish to.
You can download TortoiseGit from here.
Features of TortoiseGit
- Easy to use
- Powerful commit dialog (see screenshots)
- Per project settings
- Integration with issue tracking systems
- Helpful Tools
- Available in many languages
- TortoiseGit is stable
How to enable the overlay icons for TortoiseGit?
- Win Key + R
- Type “regedit” and press Enter Key
- Navigate to “Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers”
Rename the Key Names of Tortoise by adding few spaces before the Key Name
Ex:-
Rename "Tortoise1Normal" into " Tortoise1Normal"
