christruman/gitextensions

GitExtensions is a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2008 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.

Git Extensions

Introduction

GitExtensions is a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2008 / 2010 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.

Mailing list

The mailing list can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/gitextensions

How to debug GitExtensions

The installer is build using WiX. You need to install WiX when you want to build the installer. This can be downloaded here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/. If you do not want to build the installer, just open the solution and ignore the warning.

• Open the solution file (GitCommands.sln or GitCommands.VS2010.sln)
• Hit F5 to compile and run GitExtensions

How to contribute code

• Login in github (you need an account)
• Fork the main repository from github
• Push your changes to your fork
• Send me a pull request

If you do not want to use github, I also accept mailed patches. Just make sure the patch is send as an attachement and not in the body of the mail.

How to create the installer

• Download and install WiX http://wix.sourceforge.net/
• Open the solution file (GitCommands.sln or GitCommands.VS2010.sln)
• Compile SimpleShlExt in release for 64bit windows
• Compile SimpleShlExt in release for 32bit windows
• Compile entire solution in release, mixed platforms
• Run Setup\MakeInstallers.bat to build the installers

Links

• Download page: http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/downloads/list
• ChangeLog: https://github.com/spdr870/gitextensions/blob/master/GitUI/Resources/ChangeLog.txt
• Source code: http://github.com/spdr870/gitextensions
• Issue tracker: http://github.com/spdr870/gitextensions/issues
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/gitextensions