I thought this write up https://cito.github.io/blog/overlay-icon-battle/ is a good explanation about the mechanics. I loved the Tortoise SVN icons,and I missed them when I switched to git.
I don't like to accept no as an answer, but hacking icon overlays is not something I'm going to get into. It looks like DesktopOK <http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/DesktopOK> has braved this route (I found them from the previous write up), but I'm not interested. It seems that git extensions <https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions> does not have icon overlays as a feature, since searching the documentation <https://git-extensions-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> for "icon" turns up nothing related. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.