TortoiseGit Manual

This section talks about the reference browser, which allows you to view and work with all refs (tags, branches, remote branches, stash and so on). It can be opened using TortoiseGit → Browse Reference....

Figure 2.20. Browse References Dialog dialog

The left panel displays the ref "types" in a tree such as tags, heads (local branches) and so on.

Right panel shows all refs for a selected type (recursively if not disabled using Show nested refs) including the latest commit, description and (for local branches) their remote tracked branch.

At the top there is an edit bar which can be used to filter the displayed refs in the right panel. The search syntax is similar to the one available in the Log dialog (cf. the section called “Filtering Log Messages”).

On both panels there is a powerful context menu which provides further options such as deleting/renaming refs, configuring the remote tracked branch (for local branches) and deleting tags for a remote (on the left panel when a remote is selected). If exactly two refs are selected it is possible to compare them or open the log for all commits which are on both branches (Show log of branch1...branch2) or just on one of the two (Show log of branch1..branch2).

In order to delete remote tags, use the context menu on a remote on the left side and select Delete remote tags.... Then the following dialog will come up. There you can delete multiple remote tags at once.

Figure 2.21. Delete remote tags dialog