Recording in the background
Closing ShadowGit’s window doesn’t stop it. It keeps taking snapshots, with its icon in the tray, or the menu bar on a Mac. The icon’s menu has Open ShadowGit, Pause watching, Open at login and Quit ShadowGit. The icon turns grey while watching is paused, and shows an amber dot when ShadowGit can’t record a project. To start ShadowGit when you log in, turn on Open at login, in the tray menu or in Settings, under In the background. If your system keeps it as it was, ShadowGit says so and where to change it: Task Manager > Startup apps on Windows, System Settings > General > Login Items on a Mac.Settings
Open Settings at the bottom of the sidebar. Change what you need, then click Save changes.Updates
ShadowGit updates itself. It checks shortly after it starts and every 4 hours, and downloads a new version in the background. When it’s ready, a notice offers Restart. Otherwise the update installs the next time you quit ShadowGit. On Linux, the.deb and .rpm install only when you click Restart, because they ask for your password.
To check now, click the arrows beside the version number at the bottom of the sidebar.
When an update can’t install, the sidebar says why:
- “Move ShadowGit to Applications to get updates.” on a Mac running ShadowGit from the disk image or Downloads.
- “This build can’t update itself. Install ShadowGit with the Windows installer.” for the Windows zip.
Updating from a version before 0.3.3
ShadowGit 0.3.2 and earlier can’t update themselves. Download the latest version from shadowgit.com once, and it updates itself from then on. On Windows, the installer may show “Windows protected your PC”. Click More info, then Run anyway.Your license
The first time you open ShadowGit, enter the license key from your purchase email and click Activate. ShadowGit checks the license once a day and keeps working offline for up to 7 days.Privacy
Your code, your snapshots, the Lens’s words, the Map and your docs pages stay on your computer. ShadowGit sends three things:- Usage data. Which features you use and what fails, with your license email, ShadowGit’s version and your operating system. Never code, file names or paths. To stop it, turn off Share usage data in Settings, under Usage data, and click Save changes.
- Error reports. When something fails in the app, ShadowGit reports the error so we can fix it. A report leaves out the paths and file names in the error, and your computer’s name. Turning off Share usage data stops these too.
- License checks. Your license key, to confirm it’s valid.