When we are dealing with Git commits multiple times daily, it will be difficult and time-consuming if we enter our username and password every time.

If we didn’t save our credentials, whenever we try to push our source code to the origin.

Bang!

Credentials window occurs and consumes our valuable time.

By using following steps we can save our Git credentials in Tortoise Git

Create a text file called _netrc in the home directory

%userprofile%
(e.g. c:\users\pandiyan\_netrc).

Or we can create the file in any path, but the path which contains the file should be added in the HOME environment variable. The file path URL should not contain any space character.

And the file should contain the credentials with the following format:

machine
login
password

example:

machine github.com
login myloginid
password mypassword

we can add multiple instance details too. By doing the above steps, login window won’t appear every time. We save our valuable time and spend that in some other ways.

Happy Coding 🙂

Here is the few of my favorite tool list which I felt comfortable in using it. Everyone has their own collection of tools list and here is my small list. Wish to add all the tools whenever getting time in same post. Add your favorite tool in the comments section below.

Editors

Sublime – https://www.sublimetext.com/

Sublime is always been one of my favorite text editors as well dev tool. Most of the web application in my repository will viewed using Sublime. Themes in this editor (my favorite is Monokai always) is one of the major reason to love it.

VS Code – https://code.visualstudio.com/

Once I have started using VS Code, its started keep itself in the top 10 favorite tool list of mine. It has two edition standard edition (complete release) and Insider edition (nightly build). Currently, I’m using these editors for web application projects.

Notepad++ – https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Notepad++ is will always present in the front row whenever I need a text editors. Notepad++ is written using using c++. It helps lots of text processing in a simple and awesome way.

Frequently used Tools

Tortoise SVN – https://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html

When I started learning what is version control, Tortoise SVN tool helped me to learn the workflow of the source code maintenance.

Tortoise Git – https://tortoisegit.org/

Windows shell program to use Git.

Git extension – https://gitextensions.github.io/

Like other Git interface, its provide a great interface to handle Git repository operation without knowing the exact syntax of Git commands. On top of that It has a feature of saving commit template which is my all time favorite feature.

Diff merge – https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/

To visually compare and merge files.

Source tree – https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

Once my colleague introduced me this tool, slowly I start using this tool. It has cool view to visually project and manage the Git repositories.

Fiddler – http://www.telerik.com/fiddler

The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform. Mostly I have been using for web debugging to capture traffic in my system and browser. Its really an helpful tool for web developers from Telerik.

Resharper – https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

If you are C# guy and you are loved to play with Visual Studio, you definitely give a try of Resharper tool from JetBrains. It will provide lots of suggestion while coding.

Postman – https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop?hl=en

Postman is a used to quickly send API calls, and it has super user interface to attract the user. The tool also has history feature to keep track of previously sent API calls.

Firebug – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/

Its an interesting firefox addon which has lots of development tools with it used to debug the web pages.

Jing – https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html

Jing is interesting screen shot tool which lots of features like highlight, history, etc.

Slick run – https://bayden.com/SlickRun/

This free floating command line utility will always make you feel like a super hero. Its super cool interface impressed user a lot which makes me to highlight this tool in my top 5 list always.