Control TortoiseGit from within Visual Studio

1. Install the TGit extension
2. Install TortoiseGit
3. Install MSysGit

TGit has several options:

Default commit message:

You can change this to regular text or the following macros:

• $(FeatureName): Name of the current Feature branch
• $(BranchName): Name of the current branch
• Common Macros for Build Commands and Properties

Close dialog after operation:

You can change what happens to the TortoiseGit dialogs after their operations:

0: Close manually

1: Auto-close if no further options are available

2: Auto-close if no errors

Finish Feature tweaks:

You can change what happens when using the finish feature command:

• Delete local branch (True/False)
• Delete remote branch (True/False)
• Push changes (True/False)

• (G)it (C)ommit - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+C
• (G)it (F)etch - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+F
• (G)it (L)og - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+L
• (G)it (M)erge - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+M
• (G)it (P)ull - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+P
• (G)it P(u)sh - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+U
• (G)it (R)evert - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+R
• (G)it Stas(h)-Apply - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+H
• (G)it Stash-Cre(a)te - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+A
• (G)it (S)witch - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+S
• (G)it S(y)nc - Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Y
• (G)it Clea(n)up - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+N
• (G)it R(e)solve - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+E
• (G)it Sho(w) Changes - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+W
• (G)it File (B)lame - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+B
• (G)it File (D)iff - Ctrl+G, Ctrl+D

To make these shortcuts work you will have to redefine the Ctrl+G (Go To Line) shortcut to be e.g. Ctrl+G, Ctrl+G. To do this go to Tools -> Options -> Keyboard and change the shortcut for Edit.GoTo

So what exactly are those GitFlow menu items doing?

1. Switch to the develop branch
2. Pull latest changes on develop
3. Create and switch to a new branch

1. Switch to the develop branch
2. Pull latest changes on develop
3. Merge the feature branch to develop
4. Delete the local feature branch
5. Delete the remote feature branch
6. Push all changes to develop

1. Switch to the develop branch
2. Pull latest changes on develop
3. Create and switch to a new release branch

1. Switch to the master branch
2. Pull latest changes on master
3. Merge the release branch to master
4. Tag the release
5. Switch to the develop branch
6. Pull latest changes on develop
7. Merge the release branch to develop
8. Delete the local release branch
9. Delete the remote release branch
10. Push all changes to develop
11. Push all changes to master
12. Push the tag