#Use wine for mac os x how to

Now the unique way to run tortoise in Mac would be to install windows in a virtual machine such as Virtualbox and access to your Mac folders using a network drive (it runs with widows 7 to save resources). Wine no longer works with newer versions of OSX. In addition, some Mac GUIs are not as complete as TortoiseGit But TortoiseGit is really great and I think it would be an advantage to have the same GUI for working in Windows as well for working in Mac or Linux since it wouldn't be necessary to learn two GUIs. I know there are other Mac options for having a git GUI in Mac or Linux.

#Use wine for mac os x how to

The problem arises with the contextual menu of TortoiseGit since it doesn't connect with the file explorer of Mac.Дoes anybody know how to run TortoiseGit in Mac o Linux using wine and getting around of the contextual menu or invoke this menu in some other way using Wine? A tutorial about how to run Windows programs using wine may be found here. Usually it's not a big problem since it's possible to run Windows programs in Mac and Linux using Wine. Nevertheless they give support only for Windows. It gives support for the most common git commands, it's open source, it's free and it requires no signing up. TortoiseGit is a great GUI to handle your git projects through in use of contextual menu directly in the file explorer.