https://help.gitwinch.com/ 2026-05-15T20:31:10+00:00 https://help.gitwinch.com/ https://help.gitwinch.com/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2025-06-07T18:30:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/actdeletefile?rev=1749321035&do=diff Delete file(s) If you use this command, it will try its level best to delete the files by sending them to the system's recycle folder. But if a disk does not have such a recycle folder, then it would delete it permanently. Accidentally deleted some files? text/html 2025-05-12T13:58:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/actgotoshell?rev=1747058312&do=diff Open Console Shell ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-02T20:46:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/actopentemplates?rev=1751489203&do=diff Templates Folder There is a special sub-folder named templates which is in the Git Winch Client Application's folder. You should keep copies of files that you use in your office. For example; you may have a standard Word file which contains the office header. Or a DXF file that contains the office logo and title panel. Keep those files in this templates folder. text/html 2025-06-01T06:36:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/addcommitpush?rev=1748759765&do=diff One step: Add, commit, push Using this you can easily add files to the staging area, make a commit in the staging area, and push the changes to the remote repository all from an easy to use dialog ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-02T16:48:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/advanced?rev=1748882928&do=diff Advanced usage of Git Winch Git Winch has been designed so that people who are not very familiar with Git can also use it. The reason for using Git is because the Git ecology is very robust for both keeping backups as well as for version control. However text/html 2025-05-12T14:27:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/advancednotes?rev=1747060060&do=diff Using TortoiseGit / Git command line 🧭 What is this about? While Git Winch is designed to simplify collaboration by managing Git repositories, locking files, and notifying users of changes, some advanced users may prefer to use Git Bash, Command Prompt text/html 2025-07-09T09:16:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/advantages?rev=1752052569&do=diff Advantages of Git Winch This is a short list! * Git Winch is a loosely-coupled minimalist user and data management system, mainly focused on small and medium size offices. That means it does not enforce rigid ways of working. Each office has enough wiggle room to develop their own working system based on top of text/html 2025-06-09T08:43:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/args?rev=1749458590&do=diff Argument/s to be supplied to application You can pass an additional argument to the application being launched. By default, it would show the currently selected file's name here. NOTE: When you launch an application, it would get the arguments that you placed in this text/html 2025-06-09T08:43:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/atfolder?rev=1749458627&do=diff App would open at Folder If this checkbox is checked, then the launched application would start from the current folder. (i.e the one selected in the left-side tree of folders) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-27T17:34:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/background?rev=1753637683&do=diff Background and Philosophy Git Winch did not come up in a vacuum. It was built up over decades, by architect Sabu Francis; an innovative architect from India who wrote his own architecture design software (one of the oldest in the world. See www.teamtad.com ) The basic questions text/html 2025-07-09T18:17:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/btnaddgroupmember1?rev=1752085026&do=diff Add a new member Use this button, to add a new member to the currently selected repository. Add the member only after generating the Deploy key for that member. And such a member should be registered at our server. You need to first select the member from the repository list (which will only appear when the repository is selected), and then you can add a member into the currently selected repository. text/html 2025-08-05T16:21:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/btnaddrepo1?rev=1754410862&do=diff Create a new Repository What is a repository? Simply put; it is a folder kept somewhere which stores not just files and internal folders but also their various versions. Read about it in the definitions topic. Who can create a new repository? You just need a PAT (Personal Access Token) to one of the 3 types of Git Host we support, to create a repository. You automatically becomes the freshly created repository's text/html 2025-07-09T18:41:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/btnmkey?rev=1752086488&do=diff Create new Deploy Keys Deploy Keys are essential for using Git Winch. Every member of a repository uses Deploy Keys. These are kept in a pair of two files: One with the extension .priv (for private) and the other with the extension of .pub (for public) The text/html 2025-07-09T14:58:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/btnrefreshrepos1?rev=1752073127&do=diff Refresh repository list Clicking on this button will fetch the latest “N” number of private repositories of the owner. (The number “N” is explained below, as it varies for each Git host) Managers cannot refresh this list. Refresh can only be done with a proper PAT (not an encrypted one given to Managers) text/html 2025-07-02T19:37:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/btnremovegroupmember1?rev=1751485039&do=diff Remove a member You need to first select the member from the list (which will only appear when the repository is selected), and then you can remove the member of the currently selected repository. Because the repository list can only be refreshed when you supply the Personal Access Token, obviously this means that ideally only owner of the repository should remove such a member. text/html 2025-07-29T15:34:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/build?rev=1753803256&do=diff Git Winch Build Automation What is it? Git Winch includes a lightweight build automation capability designed for users who want to perform actions after a successful file push. While originally created for non-technical teams, it also supports technical use-cases like triggering builds for software development or office automation tasks. This system uses a simple `build.bat` file and GNU Make to selectively process updated files after every successful push. text/html 2025-05-31T12:13:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/button1?rev=1748693630&do=diff One step: Add, Commit, Push ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-04T10:37:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/buttonstartstop?rev=1751625442&do=diff Login (or Re-login) This is the button you need to click to start using the program. Give the password and also your identity: Which is either the registered email address or your username. If you do not login, nothing really can be done here -- other than possibly browsing thru these help documents. text/html 2025-06-09T08:35:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/caplistbox?rev=1749458153&do=diff Clipboard captured list This list-box captures each text from the clipboard, as you keep cutting or copying from anywhere on your computer. You can select multiple items here and delete them if you prefer. If there are 15 or more such captures in this box, it will show a message before you quit, just to make you aware. All the captured texts are saved in a file named text/html 2025-06-09T08:39:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/capmemo?rev=1749458357&do=diff Kanban Card Contents The card contents are automatically picked up from the clipboard text that you selected from the list. You can then further add/change the contents as per your needs before sending them to the selected Kanban group. NOTE: You can text/html 2025-06-09T08:38:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/capsubmit?rev=1749458316&do=diff Create Kanban Card from Captured Text This button is only enabled when both the Title and Contents of the card, AND a suitable Kanban group is selected. Clicking this will immediately post this as a card on the selected Kanban group. NOTE: You can text/html 2025-07-01T17:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/chkid?rev=1751392214&do=diff Check Commit User Signature When a commit is made, Git Winch automatically adds a signature into the Commit message. This signature can later be checked for authenticity. This is how to do it: From the Log page, you MUST select the characters starting with text/html 2025-06-19T15:59:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/cloneinto?rev=1750348745&do=diff Git Clone Git Clone can only be invoked by those who are members of a repository. It will ask you for the git address (It will start with git@... ) Get that address from the owner of the repository. Cloning can only be done on the Work folder you had setup or one of the suitable sub-folders beneath that in the folder-tree. text/html 2025-06-07T19:05:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/clrlogbtn?rev=1749323141&do=diff Clear Log button Click this button to clear the log. If you right-click on it; it would restore what was cleared (useful if you cleared the log in a hurry) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-09T08:37:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/colnum?rev=1749458242&do=diff Kanban Column Number Select the column number on the Kanban you want to post a card to. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-31T12:16:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/commitmsg?rev=1748693776&do=diff Git Commit Content (Add Commit 'n push) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-31T12:16:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/commtitle?rev=1748693766&do=diff Git Commit (Add Commit 'n push) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-09-07T14:25:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/concepts?rev=1757255145&do=diff Git Winch: The Comprehensive Office Management Solution (If you have time, read the Philosophy and Background before the rest of this document. It is optional. But do read it sometime.) What is Git Winch? Think of Git Winch as your smart replacement for Windows File Explorer text/html 2025-07-02T20:13:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/configuration?rev=1751487187&do=diff Configuration This explains how you can configure Git Winch to suit your requirements. Firstly we assume you have installed Git Winch after reading the installation instructions here. There are many files in the installation. Please do NOT rename or edit them if you do NOT know what you are doing. Neither should you rename them! text/html 2025-06-01T13:02:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/cpyfile?rev=1748782973&do=diff Copy file(s) to clipboard Use this command to copy filenames to clipboard. Then you can later paste those files in some other folder. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T14:00:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/createfolder?rev=1747058402&do=diff Create a folder This is the fastest way to create a new folder in the tree displayed on the left hand side. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-24T14:44:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/creditsval?rev=1753368284&do=diff Credit Balance Your credit balance is displayed at the top of Git Winch in red color. It usually refreshes on its own based on your activities. However, some activities may not refresh the value. Such as the activities you do in the Kanban groups on the web-app. To get the latest balance, click the currently displayed value. text/html 2025-06-15T17:45:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/csvfile?rev=1750009552&do=diff Hashtag CSV File format CSV File is generated when you click on the Hashtag Analysis button in the Manage page. Let me explain it using an example: "KG:QtrlyAppraisals","Sabu Francis","1","#accounts",5,"ASA" "KG:QtrlyAppraisals","Sabu Francis","1","#admin",8,"ASA" "KG:QtrlyAppraisals","Sabu Francis","1","#admin",59,"Blah blah blah" "R:lll_work2025","Sushil|Reshma","work.txt","#accounts",53,"Sushil:abc|Reshma:pqr" text/html 2025-06-19T16:40:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/currfolder?rev=1750351232&do=diff The current folder At the top of the application, you will see the currently selected folder. This folder info is always shown; irrespective of the page you are working on. This is to keep you always informed about the folder you are currently working on. text/html 2025-06-19T16:28:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/datafolderbtn?rev=1750350508&do=diff The Work Folder The work folder is a special folder on your computer. The Git Winch Client Application keeps a “watch” on this folder and the entire folder tree within this particular folder. Click on the special “Work Folder” button at top, to take you directly to the work folder. text/html 2025-08-05T16:16:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/definitions?rev=1754410569&do=diff Definitions What is a repository? (also called “repo” or “repos”) Simply speaking, think of a repository as a folder inside which files and sub-folders are stored. But it is actually more than that: It also stores earlier versions of the files in there too. text/html 2025-06-09T08:30:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/deletebutton?rev=1749457837&do=diff Delete Clipboard Text You can delete the captured text selected in the list-box (there can be multiple selections), using this button. Or you can press the [del] key on your keyboard to do the same. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-01T13:41:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/doautoloadnotes?rev=1748785294&do=diff Auto-load Notes Switch You can toggle the auto-loading of notes using this switch. If it is check-marked that means, whenever you select a file in the file-list, the corresponding notes would get loaded for that file. Switch this off, if your Internet is slow or absent. text/html 2025-06-01T10:53:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/dosearch?rev=1748775208&do=diff Search button Click this button to initiate the search. If you gave nothing to search, it will not do anything (obviously) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-03T19:32:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/emailadd?rev=1751571169&do=diff Registration: Email Address You must enter your own email address and this must be valid. i.e. You should be able to receive the confirmation email here. If the confirmation email sent during registration is not seen, check the spam folder. Our server will expect the email address to be unique (i.e. no other user should have that email address) If that email address was already used for registration, you'll get an error. text/html 2025-07-02T14:57:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/encryptedpat?rev=1751468253&do=diff Using an Encrypted PAT This note is only for managers of repositories inside Git Winch. The encrypted PAT that a manager receives from an owner can be used to create a repository or add/remove repository members. (Read about encrypted PAT here) Once the owner sends the encrypted PAT to the manager (Separately, not via Git Winch text/html 2025-06-19T05:22:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/faq?rev=1750310573&do=diff Frequenty Asked Questions ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents | License and Terms of Service text/html 2025-06-19T15:55:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/filedatetime?rev=1750348519&do=diff Current file date and time The current selected file's date and time is displayed here. If you happened to select multiple files then this would display the last selected file. If you had not selected a file (or if the current folder is empty), then nothing is seen here. text/html 2025-08-13T20:19:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/firstrepo?rev=1755116377&do=diff Congratulations on cloning your first repository This page is displayed when you clone the very first repository into an otherwise empty folder. This usually means that you are a new user; and you may want to read this help page in full. Cloned repo not seen? text/html 2025-08-09T10:34:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/firsttime?rev=1754735651&do=diff First time use of Git Winch Welcome! Nice to see you here. If you reached here after your first login, do not worry: The Git Winch application is still running behind this browser window. Click on the icon on the taskbar to return to it, when you finished reading here. text/html 2025-07-02T20:36:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/fullname?rev=1751488560&do=diff Full Name When you get an account with us, you would only be setting a username. Internally, we provide a “strange” alphanumerical code for your full name. What is that? This is to cater to those offices who want people to remain largely anonymous when producing content: People tend to get biased about the content others generate if they knew the person who was generating it. text/html 2025-06-26T20:06:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/git?rev=1750968385&do=diff Git and Git Hosting What is Git? Git is a powerful version control and backup system. It tracks changes to files over time, acting like a super-powered “Save” button that remembers every version of your files forever. It is technically a “distributed text/html 2025-05-12T14:03:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitadd?rev=1747058602&do=diff Git Add This command is used to prepare the Git system for further commit and push. When you give an “Git add” , you are telling which of the files are considered by Git. For example; you may have edited 3 files: test1.txt test2.txt maybe.txt text/html 2025-06-19T10:05:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitaddsend?rev=1750327551&do=diff Add, Commit and Push This is an important command. Once you have edited your files and you want to make sure that rest of the members of this Repository also needs to know the changes you have done, then this is what you would usually do. A dialog is presented to you. Inside that you would need to enter which files to add. Usually writing -A is sufficient. That means ALL the text/html 2025-05-31T12:15:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitaddwhat?rev=1748693756&do=diff Add to git staging area (Add, Commit 'n Push) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T14:03:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitcommit?rev=1747058581&do=diff Git Commit ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T10:01:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitcommithistory?rev=1747044104&do=diff Git Commit History This command will allow you to view a set of last commit messages that were made on this repository. Note that this is NOT the same as the one obtained using Git commands. We have deliberately simplified it and given only the commit messages only. text/html 2025-05-12T14:02:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitextra1?rev=1747058522&do=diff Extra 1 batch ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T14:01:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitextra2?rev=1747058505&do=diff Extra 2 Batch ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T14:01:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitextra3?rev=1747058483&do=diff Extra 3 Batch ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-09T18:20:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitlabapitoken1?rev=1752085225&do=diff Personal Access Token (PAT) Create a PAT at the Git service where you have an account. It must have permission to create Webhooks along with the ability to create repositories and add Deploy Keys. Enter the PAT in the box at the Manage page, to list repositories, create new ones, and add/remove members. text/html 2025-05-12T14:02:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitpull?rev=1747058535&do=diff Git Pull This command is the very first command you need to invoke when you start your day. It is important that you do this, as some other member of this repository may have pushed changes into this repository before you had logged in. ---------- text/html 2025-05-12T14:02:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/gitpush?rev=1747058564&do=diff Git Push ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-19T08:20:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/hashtagcapture?rev=1750321204&do=diff Clipboard Capture Introduction Git Winch is true to its philosophy of handling data of all kinds. That means not just files. But also your clipboard activity. Inside Git Winch we have implemented a neat clipboard listener. It can listen to all the clipboard work that you do on the computer where text/html 2025-09-21T14:01:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/hashtagvalues?rev=1758463271&do=diff Hashtag Value Analysis Introduction This is a special feature of Git Winch that can be used in multiple-ways in any office. The core reason for using this feature is to do assessment of work. An owner or manager would often be keen to know and award marks for the work being done in the office. Usually, this is done in the Kanban groups. But you can also use the same approach for assessing the creation of various files in the office too. text/html 2025-06-22T10:07:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/hostingmodels?rev=1750586861&do=diff Git Winch Hosting Models There are three options for the way Git Winch can be put to use in your office. Normally, we offer only Option 1 through our websites. For the other two, you would need to email us at admin@gitwinch.com and setup a calendar appointment with us. We offer those two options only during special events and private demos. text/html 2025-06-02T16:47:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/ignoredfiles?rev=1748882864&do=diff Ignored files When working with files, some applications create temporary files. These temporary files are required by such applications. For example; LibreOffice creates files whose names look like this: “.~lock...” Such files are silently deleted after the application does its work. text/html 2025-07-05T18:05:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/inifile?rev=1751738752&do=diff The Ini File This section explains how to configure the gitwinch.ini file settings before launching the Git Winch application. All these settings are stored in the application's gitwinch.ini file. Understanding the ini file The ini file contains several lines which has the following format: text/html 2025-07-29T15:46:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/installation?rev=1753803988&do=diff Installation Installation is as simple as extracting the files from a zip file to a folder on your hard-disk. The zip file is available on our main website <https://gitwinch.com> or if you are using a private installation, ask the owner/manager of the office to supply you the zip file. text/html 2025-06-09T08:28:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/ispaused?rev=1749457734&do=diff Pause Clipboard Capture You can pause the collection of clipboard texts if you checked this checkbox. If you had set pauseCapture value in the gitwinch.ini file (in the application folder) to zero then this checkbox would start of unchecked. If that value is one, then it would start checked. text/html 2025-05-12T17:35:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/kangroups?rev=1747071335&do=diff Kanban Groups ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-31T15:55:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/knownhosts?rev=1753977327&do=diff Known Hosts Error When you are working on a new computer, it is possible that the computer is unaware of the Git host that you are using. Git imposes a security precaution: It does not know if your repository is being handled by the correct host, the one you had intended. For example; a hacker may maliciously setup a Git host and somehow convince you to send the repository to that fake Git host instead of the one you wanted. text/html 2025-05-30T18:19:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/launchbtn?rev=1748629186&do=diff Launch an application Click this button to launch the application you selected from the current list of shortcuts on your Windows Desktop ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-19T08:25:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/listbox1?rev=1750321503&do=diff List of shortcuts The launch dialog automatically collects all the current shortcuts present in the Windows Desktop folder, and lists them here. You can then choose the application you want and launch it. The advantage of this kind of “launching text/html 2025-07-24T15:29:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/localserver?rev=1753370961&do=diff Internal Localhost server When Git Winch starts running, it also starts as tiny localhost webserver at port 9919. You may wonder what is that used for? Firstly, understand what a localhost server is: It is a web-server that works only on your own computer. Such webserver can only be used from your own computer and from within text/html 2025-06-08T14:00:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/management?rev=1749391237&do=diff Management This page is only for those who are owners/managers of a Git repository. Before you read further, you need to understand the basics of Git and Git hosting. This is explained here. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-07T19:03:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/membercloneurl1?rev=1749322998&do=diff Clone URL To get to the link, just simply click inside to copy the repo link. Members use that link to clone from the Work tab. Cloning is done just once on a fresh computer that does not have the said working folder for that repository. When you select any of the repository from the list directly above, our little application would determine the git@ text/html 2025-06-19T07:47:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/memolog?rev=1750319251&do=diff Log The log is the place where messages from our system gets collected. The messages are automatically entered due to the actions you would have carried out. You can clear the log if it becomes too long, or you can save it to a text file in case you think you may need it for debugging later. text/html 2025-09-09T14:37:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/msg155d?rev=1757428668&do=diff Repository Information When you start Git Winch it will show a summary of some useful statistics of the repositories that you have created using Git Winch. It is meant to help you plan your next steps that you can take. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-02T20:45:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/newfile?rev=1751489128&do=diff New file When using Git Winch you need to create a new file from here, instead of from within any application. Only then will Git Winch would become aware of which files are created. There is a special folder named templates in the same folder where you installed the text/html 2025-06-04T18:19:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/notes?rev=1749061143&do=diff Notes You can enter notes in this area for each of the files you select. Press Ctrl-S on your keyboard to save it. Similarly, other members can also add their own notes. If you want to delete your earlier note, just make sure the following is present in the note: text/html 2025-06-07T19:04:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/ontop?rev=1749323059&do=diff Stay on Top Sometimes, it is useful to keep the Git Winch Client Application always floating on top of whatever you are doing on your computer. If that is what you want to do, make sure this check box is checked. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-11T14:28:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/opbrowser?rev=1749652110&do=diff See help in browser Sometimes you may want to browse thru the help from your current browser. This button will do just that. Click it and the page will now load in the current browser. NOTE: Some links that cannot be handled by the built-in help browser will always load in the current browser. text/html 2025-05-12T11:51:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/openfile?rev=1747050693&do=diff Open the file in its application Use this menu-item to start working on the selected file, using its associated application. If you had selected multiple files, then each of the files would get opened in its respective associated application. ---------- text/html 2025-06-08T10:08:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/openinexplorer?rev=1749377335&do=diff Open Folder in Windows Sometimes you may need to do some actions on a folder that you cannot do from within Git Winch. You can use this pop-up menu item to directly take you to the same folder in Windows. Once there, you are now free to do whatever you would do with that folder in Windows. text/html 2025-05-12T09:39:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/openwith?rev=1747042742&do=diff Open With another application Sometimes you may want to open a file in another application. In that case, choose this menu item. It will then show the system's Open with... menu. Choose the application you want to use from there. ---------- Table of Contents text/html 2025-08-03T14:45:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/org?rev=1754232313&do=diff Organization code This code is always needed for Git Winch to work fully. It represents the organization ...(or it can even be a division in an organization.) We sometimes call this the “orgname” in these docs. If this Org code was not found as the application started. Usually, that happens when running a fresh installation of text/html 2025-06-04T18:19:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/othersnotes?rev=1749061171&do=diff Other's Notes This area will display the notes made by others for the selected file. Such notes cannot be edited. You can only edit the same note that you had prepared. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T13:55:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/ownerremrepolocks?rev=1747058127&do=diff Repository unlock (by owner/manager) This is an emergency command. In case some user had kept a folder locked and did not unlock it (for whatever reason) the owner of the repository can then unlock it. This works only on folders that are Git repositories. text/html 2025-06-19T11:37:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/pagecontrol1?rev=1750333074&do=diff Tab pages in Git Winch Git Winch has several pages where you can do your work. Each page is for a specific purpose. Read more from the following links: * Main work page * Management page * Log page * Info page ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-04T16:23:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/passwordedit?rev=1751646236&do=diff Password Login into Git Winch using this Password and either username or registered email address. Either of the two would be sufficient to establish your identity. The credentials you provide inside the Git Winch Client Application can also be used directly in the web-app too. For example; you are not at your regular computer where this application is working. You can still access the web-app part of the text/html 2025-06-01T13:03:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/pastefile?rev=1748783005&do=diff Paste files If you had copied some files into the clipboard (either here or from Windows File Explorer) then use this command to paste them into this folder. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-26T20:13:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/privacy?rev=1750968830&do=diff Git Winch Privacy Policy Effective: 1. Data Collection Boundaries We never access or store: * Your repository files/code * Personal Access Tokens or deploy keys 2. Collected Metadata Data Type Purpose Storage Location text/html 2025-05-19T07:20:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/putfilelock?rev=1747639258&do=diff Put a lock on a file Any user can put a lock on a file so that other users cannot work on it at all. Important This can be an inconvenient command. If you do lock a file, make sure that you unlock it. Else no other user can the work on that same file. text/html 2025-07-03T19:04:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/pwd?rev=1751569445&do=diff Registration: Password Password that you have to set has to be at least 10 characters long (and less than 25). Choose a non-guessable password which you have not used on any other website. Learn the entire registration process. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-02T20:19:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/refunds?rev=1751487577&do=diff Git Winch Refund Policy Effective: 25 June 2025 1. General Policy We offer refunds only under these conditions: Scenario Refund Eligibility How to Request Notes Failed payment 100% refund text/html 2025-08-09T09:08:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/regform?rev=1754730498&do=diff Registration You can start using Git Winch in a few minutes. Firstly you need to download and install Git Winch. That's explained on another page here. Once Git Winch is running, registration is very easy. Whenever Git Winch starts, it will always check the presence of a special file named text/html 2025-06-01T13:04:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/reloadnotesact?rev=1748783050&do=diff Load Notes Load notes for this selected file. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-09T10:50:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/remfolderlockbyuser?rev=1749466212&do=diff Remove repository engagements This command can be used to remove all engagements on a folder (including the lock) which was previously set by the same user (i.e. you!) This is a very important command which you must use as soon as possible, after you have finished working on a locked folder. text/html 2025-05-19T07:21:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/removefilelock?rev=1747639284&do=diff Remove a lock on a file If you had previously locked a file, make sure that you unlock it as soon as your work on the file is over. Note that you can only unlock a file which you had previously locked. You cannot unlock a file if someone else had locked it. You can chat with that other person who had locked it and ask that person to kindly unlock the file. text/html 2025-05-19T07:22:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/remrepolocks?rev=1747639350&do=diff Remove Repository Locks In some situations, one or more files were locked for editing by some person and that person had not pushed that repository back to the Git host. This can create problems, as those locked files cannot then be worked upon by others. In such a case, the owner of the repositories can force the server to remove the locks. text/html 2025-06-01T13:04:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/renamefileact?rev=1748783095&do=diff Rename a file ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-14T18:22:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/rendir?rev=1749925353&do=diff Rename Folder Other than repository folders, you can rename any folder (provided the new name was not used for another sibling folder) Why repository folders should not be renamed is because the Deploy keys that are used the system to give you Git permissions would be based on the older folder-name. text/html 2025-07-02T13:13:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/repogroup1?rev=1751461980&do=diff Current Member List This displays the current group members of the selected repository (the one you clicked on the repository list on the left). Of course, if you are NOT the repository owner you will never get this repository list. There is another way for refreshing this list: If you are a manager, you can click when this list-box is empty. It will then ask for the name of that repository whose members you want to see in the list. Give only the repository name for which you are the manager. text/html 2025-07-02T10:38:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/repolist1?rev=1751452737&do=diff Repository List If you had given the correct PAT (Personal Access Token) which allows API usage of your Git Hosting Service, then this list would be populated with the list of private repositories at your account in that Git Hosting Service. Limits text/html 2025-06-01T10:51:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/results?rev=1748775115&do=diff Search Results The search results are displayed in this box. If you click on any of those results, it would do one of 2 things: * a) If it is a filename, it will point you to the file whose file-notes contain the text you had searched for (This is a case-sensitive search) text/html 2025-06-07T18:14:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/revertfiles?rev=1749320058&do=diff Revert Files Sometimes you may want to revert just ONE or TWO files in a repository to an earlier version. This can happen as explained in the following example: Say you are writing a story and you wrote one version of it, saved the file and pushed it to the remote Git Host. Then you went to sleep. Next day you woke up and again worked on the story. And again you saved and pushed. After sometime, something inside you told me that the work you had done yesterday was better; and you want that ve… text/html 2025-06-19T06:00:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/revertversion?rev=1750312841&do=diff Revert to an another version Sometimes, it may be important to return back to an another version of the entire repository. To do this, you need to first right click on the repository folder in the main work area (in the left side) and select Commit History text/html 2025-05-12T09:48:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/savefilenotes?rev=1747043326&do=diff Save File Notes ---------- Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T10:12:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/savelogbtn?rev=1747044757&do=diff Save the log Use this button to save the currently seen log into a text file (i.e. openable in text editors such as Notepad, VSCode, VSCodium, etc.) ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-29T12:53:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/savememsessionbtn1?rev=1751201611&do=diff Members' Session Logs The owner or the manager of a repository can collect the session logs of members of the repository. In these logs, even the data of other repositories the same member may have worked on during the period would be available. Once a set of session logs are collected by the owner (and only owner), that repository's session logs are deleted from our server. Session logs are NOT deleted if the logs were collected by a manager. Also, session logs of other repositories are never… text/html 2025-06-01T12:54:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/search?rev=1748782448&do=diff Global Search You can always do a global search by clicking this button. It will open a dialog, where you can provide the text you want to search. It will search thru Kanban card titles, contents and comments. But you need to be part of the respective Kanban groups. Such a search is case-insensitive. text/html 2025-06-01T10:05:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/searchact?rev=1748772340&do=diff Search text Enter the text you want to search for. Note that it does a case-insensitive search for Kanban cards. But it is case-sensitive for file-notes. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-02T18:12:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/searchbtn?rev=1751479939&do=diff Search button for documentation Enter your search term in the input box here, and click this button to start searching with the results displayed in the current browser. You can also press “ENTER” instead of clicking here. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-06-10T19:08:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/searchdlg?rev=1749582497&do=diff Searching This search dialog is quite powerful. You can search for any text inside file notes as well as in Kanban cards (only in those groups you are a member of) Kanban card search is case insensitive. However, the search in file notes is case-sensitive text/html 2025-07-02T18:09:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/searchfield?rev=1751479765&do=diff Search Documentation You can start searching the documentation by specifying a search string here within the Git Winch Help Window itself. The results would be displayed in your default browser. Then you can continue searching there. ---------- Learn the concepts | text/html 2025-06-01T12:57:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/searchval?rev=1748782662&do=diff Search text In this field, enter the text you want to search for within Kanban cards and comments (It will only search in those kanban groups where you are enrolled as a group member) The same text is also used for searching inside file-notes; provided you were a member of that repository. text/html 2025-07-08T17:10:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/setunsetmanager?rev=1751994633&do=diff Set or Unset a Manager You can easily make anyone as a manager (or remove that role) for a repository you own (or you plan to own in future). You have to enter the person's username at our server (And NOT the person's actual name) This is because setting someone as a text/html 2025-06-02T16:53:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/shelllistview1?rev=1748883214&do=diff List of files of selected folder This right hand side contains the list of files present in the selected folder on the left. It does NOT show ANY sub-folders inside. It will be empty if the selected folder did not have any files (and even if it had sub-folders that did have files) text/html 2025-06-04T18:18:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/shelltreeview1?rev=1749061104&do=diff Tree list of folders In the Git Winch Client Application the left hand side shows the entire list of folders of your computer. And when you start the application, initially it will directly take you to the Work Folder that you had set in the .ini fie of this application. However you would be able to see ALL the folders and files of your computer. text/html 2025-05-30T17:35:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/shortcutlaunch?rev=1748626530&do=diff Launch a Desktop application You can easily launch an application whose shortcut is available on your Windows Desktop. If you had selected a filename, it will be available as an argument in the launch dialog. If you do not want that file, you can clear that arguments edit box. text/html 2025-06-20T07:47:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/shortcutlauncher?rev=1750405646&do=diff ---------- List of applications available This list box would contain the currently available application shortcuts from your Windows desktop. Select the application you want, and you can then launch it. The advantage of this kind of “launching text/html 2025-07-05T17:59:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/start?rev=1751738371&do=diff How to use this Guide This Wiki contains specific information for each context that you encounter when using Git Winch. This guide is best used from inside the Git Winch client application. But it can be used as a guide that you can browse independently too. text/html 2025-06-11T10:30:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/statusbar1?rev=1749637858&do=diff Status Bar This is the place where a small hint is provided. It will change as per the place where your mouse is hovering. If you do not like messages appearing here, simply double-click here and you can toggle this on or off. ---------- Concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-05-12T14:29:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/syncthing?rev=1747060160&do=diff Using Syncthing Syncthing (<https://syncthing.net>) is also a very powerful peer-to-peer backup and synchronization system. The advantage of using Syncthing is that you do not need an external hosting service -- the way you do with Git. However, there are some notable disadvantages (listed below) and hence we recommend Syncthing to be used only in case of a few known individuals working together in an office. We do NOT recommend that you use Syncthing for everyone in the office. text/html 2025-06-09T08:24:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/titleedit?rev=1749457465&do=diff Kanban Card Title You can send any text captured by the clipboard manager to a group you are part of in the web Kanban application. For this, a title must be given. ---------- Learn the concepts | Table of Contents text/html 2025-07-22T15:40:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/topics?rev=1753198813&do=diff Table of Contents How to use this help system This table of contents lists the help pages for the GUI elements on each section of Git Winch. You must read the Common topics first if you are are just starting. If you have more time, you can read the Background and Philosophy too. Common * Concepts * Definitions * text/html 2025-06-15T14:40:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/tos?rev=1749998437&do=diff Git Winch License and Terms of Service Version 1.0: June 14, 2025 ---------- 1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS By accessing or using Git Winch software and services (“Service”), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (“Terms”). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the Service. text/html 2025-07-05T17:49:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/translations?rev=1751737760&do=diff Translations Once you extract the zip file containing Git Winch (from our official site, or a custom-bundle that was properly packed) you will see that there is a folder named translations present in the same folder as the application. That folder contains files of this type: text/html 2025-06-11T16:29:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/translator?rev=1749659352&do=diff Translate Page You can easily translate the help page you are reading by clicking this button. You can always change the language to which it has to be translated to by setting the following in the [SYSTEM] section of the GitWinch.ini file. [SYSTEM] text/html 2025-07-31T15:56:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/troubleshooting?rev=1753977387&do=diff Trouble Shooting NOTE: If you encounter a persistent problem when using Git Winch please email us at admin@gitwinch.com Starting trouble If the application simply does not start or displays a dialog and then quits, usually it would be because the application was not able to load some critical files that are always needed. For example; if the translation file for the language you had set the value for text/html 2025-06-19T07:42:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/tsdata?rev=1750318948&do=diff The Work Page This is the page where most of the day-to-day work of the office is carried out. It is a simple alternative for the Windows file explorer. On the left hand side, it will show the tree of folders of your computer. On the right hand side it will show the list of files for the currently selected folder. text/html 2025-06-20T07:33:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/tslog?rev=1750404791&do=diff Log Page The Log Page displays a chronological record of all actions performed by the current user within the application. This includes key Git interactions such as clone, add, commit, and push, along with their outcomes. Any errors or warnings encountered during these operations are also recorded. Each log entry is timestamped, providing a clear history of activities. Users can manually save the log to their local system for reference, troubleshooting, or backup purposes. text/html 2025-09-23T07:36:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/tsmanage2?rev=1758612969&do=diff Management The Manage page in Git Winch is designed for repository owners to create and manage repositories at GitLab, GitHub, or Gitea directly from within Git Winch, without leaving the application. This page is usually not for regular office workers but rather for those who handle repository setup, access permissions, and security. text/html 2025-06-24T16:11:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/tsstart?rev=1750781495&do=diff The information page This page is what you would see when you start the application. There are 3 kinds of information that would be shown. When the program begins, it would load the file gitwinch.html which is present in the application's own folder. Once you successfully logs in, you would be presented with a message from our server. Make sure you read this as it can contain very useful information text/html 2025-07-04T10:41:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/usernameedit?rev=1751625684&do=diff Identity You can login using either of your identity: The username or the email address that you had registered. To make things easy, we recommend that you login using your username. But if you had forgotten your username, you can also login using your email address. In that case, text/html 2025-06-09T10:48:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/userputsfolderlock?rev=1749466080&do=diff Lock Repository Usually, when a user works on a file; only that file gets engaged by the user but not others. However in some cases you may want nobody to work on that folder at all. In such a case, you can place a lock on the entire folder of suitable repository folder. A text/html 2025-07-03T19:32:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/usrname?rev=1751571128&do=diff Registration: Username We strongly suggest that you choose a username that is not easily guessable and one that is NOT based on your own actual name. This is to improve the security of your account, as a casual hacker would need to find out both the username AND the password too to get into your account. If you had used a username based on your actual name, that part would be easy for the hacker. text/html 2025-06-29T09:20:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://help.gitwinch.com/vfour?rev=1751188846&do=diff The "V-Four" Problem Or why is that we do not like “attachments” ... neither should you! It's not just with Emails. Many office management systems such as Slack, Teams and countless others allow users to attach files and send those to others. Sounds convenient, right? But it can be downright painful and can sometimes even lead to data loss and corruption.