How-Tos

Find instructions for configuring SmartGit, diagnosing problems, and completing common workflows.

• Configuration
  • Configure a Dictionary
  • Changing the Folder Watch Limit (Linux)
  • Enabling the “cherry picked from commit …” Message
  • External Diff: Configuring Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Diffs
  • External Tools: Configuring a 3-Way Diff
  • Fixing the Git Configuration for a Local Repository Shared Between Different Operating Systems
  • HTTPS: Remember Different Passwords for Same Server
  • Setting Up an SSH Tunnel (Windows)
  • Setting Up Multiple URLs per Remote
  • Sign Tags and Commits
  • Setting Up SSH Commit Signing
  • SVN: Cloning with a Custom Branch Layout
  • Using the Git Credentials Manager
  • What Do I Do If I Want to Rename/Move Files or Directories?
  • Running on WSLg
  • Dark Mode on Linux
• Debugging
  • Creating Thread Dumps
  • Profiling SmartGit
  • Creating Heap Histograms
  • Debugging Git-LFS
  • Debugging JSON Connections
  • Debugging Refresh-Related Problems (of External Changes)
  • Debugging smartgit.exe Startup (Exe4J)
  • Debugging SSL-Related Problems
  • Environmental Differences Between SmartGit and Command Line Git
  • Finding Bugs with Application Verifier
  • Inspecting SmartGit’s Process Using VisualVM
  • Obfuscating a Repository to Report a Problem
  • Running Java Snippets
  • Tracing the Modified State of a File
• Miscellaneous
  • Internationalization (for Developers/Authors)
  • Performance Tuning
  • SSH
• Licensing
  • Purchase Upgrades
  • Register a SmartGit License
• Troubleshooting
  • Authentication Problems (Push/Pull Fail)
  • git: ‘…’ is not a git command
  • Fix an Index Which Contains the Same File Name Multiple Times, but with Different Encodings
  • Fix Duplicate Unicode File Entries on macOS
  • Repair a Corrupted Index
  • My Text Files Are Displayed with Invalid Characters, What Can I Do?
  • Native Crashes: Known External Causes
    • Your System Ran Out of Virtual Memory
    • Your Pagefile Size Is Limited to a Low Value
    • You Probably Have a Process Leak on Your System
    • Pull/Push/Rebase Operation Failures
    • EXCEPTION_IN_PAGE_ERROR
    • Possibly Faulty RAM
  • Why Are My Files/Directories Not Shown?
  • Linux Problems
  • Upgrading SmartGit Using HTTP Instead of HTTPS
• Workflows
  • GitHub: Keeping in Sync with the Upstream Repository
  • How to Compare Two Branches/Commits?
  • How to Examine the Content of a Stash
  • How to Perform a Cherry-Pick
  • How to Perform Normal Merges and Squash Merges
  • How to Perform Squash Merges
  • How to Resolve Conflicts
  • How to Set Up a Git Server
  • Modifying the History
  • Setting Up Submodules
  • Staging, Unstaging and the Index Editor