Remergd

Getting started

What you need

  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
  • Git for Windows 2.40 or newer. Keep Git Credential Manager turned on when you install it (it is the default): Remergd lets Git sign in to your hosts through it.

Install

Download Remergd and run the installer. It installs for your Windows user only, so it does not ask for an administrator. Remergd is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher: choose More info, then Run anyway.

First start

A short setup opens over the app. Every step can be skipped and changed later in Settings.

  1. Git and sign-in: Remergd finds your Git and checks that Git Credential Manager is in use. If it is not, Use Credential Manager fixes it.
  2. Your name for commits: every commit carries a name and email. They are saved in your global Git config (user.name and user.email), so other Git tools use them too.
  3. Work and private: if you use one computer for both, Remergd can keep them apart as profiles. A profile is a folder with its own commit email; with a profile chosen, you see only the repositories inside it. Remergd finds profiles you already set up with includeIf in your Git config.
  4. Connect GitHub or Azure DevOps (optional): so you can browse and clone repositories and work with pull requests. See Azure DevOps and GitHub.
  5. Where clones go: the folder new clones are put in.
  6. You’re ready: a few tips, and a theme: Light, Dark, High contrast or Paper.

Add more repositories

  • Add a local repository: Ctrl+O, then pick its folder.
  • Clone: from a connected account, pick one or many repositories. New clones go into <folder>/<project or owner>/<repository>, and you can pick another folder for each clone.

Every repository you add shows up as a tile on the dashboard (Ctrl+0). Drag tiles into groups, and use Fetch all to bring them all up to date.

Getting around

  • Ctrl+P opens the command palette: type part of a repository’s name to go there, or the name of a command to run it.
  • In a repository, Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+7 switch between Changes, History, Branches, Stashes, Pull requests, About and Files.
  • Ctrl+/ shows every shortcut. See Keyboard shortcuts.