Home / SmartGit / Latest / Manual / GUI / Working with Repositories

Propose Changes

Working with Repositories

This section describes common SmartGit actions you’ll need to use when working with Git Repositories on your local system.

Contents:

• SmartGit’s Repositories View
• Opening a Repository
• Cloning a Remote repository
• Working with Files and Directories within Repositories
• Managing Remotes
• Synchronizing changes with Remotes
  • Pull and Fetch
  • Push
• Repository Settings
  • Setting user identity information in the User Tab
  • Fetch and Pull Options
  • Push Options
  • Signing Options
  • Tag Grouping Settings
• Working with Submodules and Subtrees

Opening a Repository

Use Repository | Add or Create to either open an existing local repository (e.g., initialized or cloned with the Git command line client) or to initialize a new repository.

Specify the local directory you want to open. If the specified directory is not yet a Git repository, you can initialize it.

Settings

Once you have a opened a repository, use Repository | Settings to configure repository-specific settings.