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git-fastclone vs TortoiseGit: What are the differences?

Developers describe git-fastclone as "git clone --recursive on steroids, by Square". It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCEREPODIR environment variable. On the other hand, TortoiseGit is detailed as "The Power of Git in a Windows Shell". It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

git-fastclone and TortoiseGit can be categorized as "Git" tools.

git-fastclone is an open source tool with 166 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks. Here's a link to git-fastclone's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is git-fastclone?

    It creates a reference repo with git clone --mirror in /var/tmp/git-fastclone/reference for each repository and git submodule linked in the main repo. You can control where it puts these by changing the REFERENCE_REPO_DIR environment variable.

    What is TortoiseGit?

    It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

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