How to restart TortoiseGit?

Question

I have TortoiseGit installed on my Win 7 machine. It generally work very nicely. Occasionally, some of the features seize to work w/o an apparent reason.

For example, normally TG will show overlayed icons showing the status of the files and folders in a repo. But sometimes, this feature become inactive. I see only the normal File Explorer icons.

In the settings dialog I set the Clone... and Commit... as the root context menu items. When right-clicking on a folder in the repo, I see these two options with the entry for the TG submenu, and can perform all the normal actions.

But, when right-clicking on a file, I get only the TG submenu option, and when opening it, I get a very minimalist actions menu, that normally appears for un-staged files.

Why is this happening?

How can I restart TortoiseGit w/o restarting Windows?

Solution 1

Just after posting the question I realized I can try restarting Explorer instead of TG. So, I opened Process Manager and closed the explorer.exe processes running there (the executable of Windows Explorer). Then, I selected File->Run... and typed explorer.exe to re-run the process.

This fixed the problem!

Solution 2

You can try ShellExView to disable and then re-enable TortoiseGit shell extension. You can also Restart Explorer (Ctrl+E) from ShellExView -> Options.

Comments

[ysap]

Thanks. I actually remember now using this app a long time ago (not for this purpose, though). Thanks for the reminder.