TortoiseGit vs Git Extensions

Question

What are the benefits and disadvantage of using either Git Extensions or TortoiseGit on a Windows Based OS?

Answer 1

DATE: 2011-08-27.

At this point, Tortoise Git DOES NOT WORK at all, and the issue on the google code site has not received attention in a month: http://groups.google.com/group/tortoisegit-users/browse_thread/thread/9090337b7936e1e1 .

The box 'Load Putty Key' from the popup on Tortoise Git's first usage to clone a site (and start developing) is grayed out. So no private key is found, and the error message is 'connection dropped' SUCCESSFUL!!!!

Git Bash works perfectly, albeit console based. And if everyone above talks about not understanding the Git concept when using Tortoise Git, I'd just stay away from it based on that, even not taking into account the last 3 hours I spent trying to get Tortoise Git working for a developer. He's going to have to learn console Git, or go down the road.

I got it working in 15 minutes, and I'm just a hacker trying to hire programmers ;-)

PS, Eclipse has all three major Version Control repository 'connectors' available and is a very good editor.