Question

I will be happy for any suggestion, not only answers.

My TortoiseGit is malfunctioning on my Win7 64bit machine.

Notice I can still work correctly from the command line with my github repositories.

The problems

• right-click rep\commit gives the followin:
  • Single Modified File named: Is-files with no extension and with status conflict (I don’t have such a file)
  • Single Not Versioned file named: git: 'File' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean this?Is-files with extension .Did you mean this?Is-files and with status Unknown (of course I don’t have such a file)
• Trying to right-click a rep\settings\remotes I get a pop-up saying: git: 'Files' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. Did you mean this? Is-files with a single ok button. then clicking ok shows an empty remote list. notice that when I type git remote in the command line I do get the list of remotes.

problems are for all my repositories

Things I tried

• uninstall\reinstall both TortoiseGit and msysgit
• various TortoiseGit versions: 1.6.3.0 and 1.6.2.0
• git gc
• git fsck
• git prune

I’m using msysgit 1.7.3.1

Answer 1

I solved it by the following procedure:

• Uninstall TortoiseGit – then restart
• Uninstall TortoiseSVN – then restart
• Find registry folders with the words “TortoiseSVN” or “TortoiseGit” and erase them
• Install TortoiseGit – then restart

Surprisingly that worked.