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How Tos

• 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
  • 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
• Debugging
  • Creating Thread Dumps
    • Periodical Thread Dumps
  • Creating Heap Histograms
  • 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
• Internationalization (for developers/authors)
• Performance Tuning
• Licensing
  • Purchase Upgrades
  • Register a SmartGit license
• SSH
• Trouble-shooting
  • Authentication problems (push/pull fail)
  • git: ‘…’ is not a git command
  • How to fix an Index which contains the same file name multiple times, but with different encodings
  • 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