如何删除TortoiseGit中的URL历史记录？

Question

When you open TortoiseGit for cloning a repository, under Clone existing repository, it fills the URL drop menu with repositories that were already cloned before. However, I want to clean this history. How can I achieve that? The reason I am doing this, is because I was using a company's laptop, and now I want to remove everything on it. I have already successfully removed my git credentials from there.

Answer 1

The TortoiseGit documentation explains how to do this. It cannot be linked to directly, so here's an excerpt. It's most easily found by searching inside that page for 2.87 .

Essentially you need to go to the Settings dialog and then select Saved Data in the tree on the left. You can clear all kinds of things there.

Figure 2.87. The Settings Dialog, Saved Data Page The Settings Dialog, Saved Data Page

For your convenience, TortoiseGit saves many of the settings you use, and remembers where you have been lately. If you want to clear out that cache of data, you can do it here.

URL history

Whenever you checkout a working tree, merge changes or use the repository browser, TortoiseGit keeps a record of recently used URLs and offers them in a combo box. Sometimes that list gets cluttered with outdated URLs so it is useful to flush it out periodically.

If you want to remove a single item from one of the combo boxes you can do that in-place. Just click on the arrow to drop the combo box down, move the mouse over the item you want to remove and type Shift+Del .