1 TortoiseGit - The coolest Interface to Git Version Control
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4 TortoiseGit is a Windows Shell Interface to Git and based on TortoiseSVN. It's open source and can fully be build with freely available software.
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6 TortoiseGit supports you by regular tasks, such as committing, showing logs, diffing two versions, creating branches and tags, creating patches and so on (see our [Screenshots](https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/wiki/Screenshots) or [documentation](https://tortoisegit.org/docs/tortoisegit/)).
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8 * Website: [tortoisegit.org](https://tortoisegit.org)
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9 * Issues: [issue tracker](https://tortoisegit.org/issues)
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10 * Mailing lists: [tortoisegit-announce](https://groups.google.com/group/tortoisegit-announce),
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11 [tortoisegit-users](https://groups.google.com/group/tortoisegit-users) and
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12 [tortoisegit-dev](https://groups.google.com/group/tortoisegit-dev)
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13 * StackOverflow tag: [tortoisegit](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tortoisegit)
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18 The latest release and language packs are available on the [download page](https://tortoisegit.org/download).
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23 Building TortoiseGit is easy. All necessary requirements and steps are described in the [build.txt](build.txt) file. Helpful might also be our a short description of the [architecture](https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/wiki/TortoiseGit_Overall_Architecture).
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25 How Can I Contribute?
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28 You're welcome to contribute to this project (help on coding, documentation, [Translation](https://tortoisegit.org/translate), testing [preview releases]([https://download.tortoisegit.org/tgit/previews/) or helping other users on the mailing lists is really appreciated).
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30 Feel free to report issues and pull requests.
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32 Please also check the [contribution guidelines](doc/HowToContribute.txt) to understand our
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38 TortoiseGit is licensed under GPL2.
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40 See the [COPYING file](src/gpl.txt) for the full license text.
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