SmartGit Changelog

What's new in SmartGit 23.1.3

Apr 22, 2024

Fixed Bugs:
Refresh:
config: possible internal error if config file ends after subsection name
possible "ghost" modified state related to invalid "text=<value>" in .gitattributes
Simple hosting providers: Domain input field is missing
Linux:
default dark theme: assertion showing comment
table columns too narrow by default
MacOS:
env-var parser fails if `pwsh` is configured
Reveal in Finder: always shows an empty output dialog
WSL: if appending Windows path is disabled, browser windows can't be opened
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Updated Chinese translation
Company configuration:
Allow to have fixed Git executable version by configuring `executable.requiredExactVersion`
On-premise license server:
About dialog: show details about on-premise license server
Setup: improve warning message in case of rejected authorization (LDAP)
Setup/Register: prevent requesting license if Git email address is not configured
Working Tree window:
Show Changes: introduce low-level property `showChanges.askForIndexAndWtModifiedFiles` to show selection dialog for wt-index-modified files
Refresh (macOS): added low-level property `core.status.ignoreGenericFileSystemExceptionOnMacOs` to work around "Operation not permitted" error caused by inaccessible directories

New in SmartGit 24.1 Preview 4 (Apr 16, 2024)

New in SmartGit 24.1 Preview 3 (Mar 22, 2024)

New in SmartGit 24.1 Preview 2 (Mar 11, 2024)

New in SmartGit 23.1.2 (Feb 20, 2024)

New in SmartGit 24.1 Preview 1 (Feb 12, 2024)

New Features, Improvements:
Syntax coloring:
Support for Gettext .po files
Log window, Standard window:
Added the power-user feature "Rollback To" which allows to set the working tree or index to the one of the selected commit
Add Remote dialog: for GitHub forked repositories without an upstream remote, it will be suggested
Standard window:
Added Edit Ignore File to find a Git ignore file that ignores a certain file, or edit one of the Git ignore files
Submodules: if "submodule.<name>.active" can't be parsed, it should be considered active (not inactive)
Fixed Bugs:
Add Remote: dialog should forget failed previous remote if the repository was changed
Add Submodule wizard: second page could become too wide
File Tables (Std/Log/WT): when filtering for ignored files, matching files should be displayed
Preferences:
Git executable page: Git version was not shown if this page was last used before closing the dialog
Pull: inactive submodules must not be initialized
Standard window:
Add Remote did not remember a failed url/name pair
Graph: context menu may become disabled in case of concurrent background refresh
Index Files: file sorting should not be influenced by Working tree state
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Updated bundled Git to version 2.43.0
Background Fetch: initialized submodules are fetched now even if deactivated
Changes view:
Goto Prev/Next Change: won't move the caret into the opposite direction, e.g. if caret is before first/after last change in file
Changes view, Compare, Conflict Solver, ...:
The focused selection color is now kept until a different text control is getting focused (before even showing a context menu or the Find file dialog caused the harder to see unfocused color to be used)
JIRA resolve dialog: improved texts
Push: for a forced push the confirmation branch shows the branch name
Repository Search: starting a manual search aborts now the automatic one
Startup logging to console has been reduced
Submodule | Deactivate: works now on multiple selected submodules
Syntax coloring:
Markdown: several improvements and fixes for quotes, underscores and <links>
Verilog: several improvements and fixes for number literals without bit count, or with ?xz states, backtick constants, missing keywords, identifiers starting with underscores
Standard window:
the Commit button is now disabled if there is definitely nothing to commit
Open in Browser (GitHub): when invoked on commit, open <project>/commit/<sha> instead of <project>/tree/<sha>
Ignore: should only be available for ignorable files
Tabs:
The middle-mouse-click should trigger on non-dragged mouse-released
The left-mouse-click should only select if no modifier is pressed
The left-mouse-click with Shift held should close the tab (similar to middle-mouse-click)
Working Tree window:
If a subdirectory inside an open repository is selected, the title will keep showing the repository

New in SmartGit 23.1.1 (Dec 8, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1.0 (Nov 24, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 6 (Nov 23, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 5 (Nov 10, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 4 (Oct 29, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 3 (Oct 16, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 2 (Oct 5, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 1 (Sep 28, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 14 (Sep 20, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 13 (Sep 14, 2023)

New Features, Improvements:
Clone: special branches "main" and "development" are suggested in branch to check out
Commit views (in all windows):
If nothing is staged
Multiple files are selected, commit those
- commit only those files which are visible - not those from parent or sibling directories (Working tree window: from the selected repository)
Warn, if
Not all staged files are visible
Working Tree window: files in a submodule are staged, but not in the selected repository
File completion only suggests committable files, including all (!) staged ones
Gerrit integration: support for .gitreview, including option "defaultbranch"
Graph:
Avatar: support for github-no-reply email addresses
Bisect: show "good" and "bad" classification also for merge commits
Stash Selection: don't include/warn for staged files
Syntax coloring:
ANTLR, Java: string or character escape sequences are shown in different color
Standard window:
Configure Features: branch "development" is detected as main branch, too
Stash Selection
Stage All/Unstage All: requires low-level properties "standard.actions.stageAll" or "standard.actions.unstageAll" to be set to "true"
Windows: added default tool "Open in Powershell"
Fixed Bugs:
Auto-updates: directory .updates/<major-version>/ fills up with control-xxx files
Bitbucket: internal error trying to add a Bitbucket provider without invoking "Generate Token"
Changes view: deselecting a file kept the vertical scrollbar as-is
Commit view: "Commit" button could be enabled, but non-functional
Gerrit integration: may not be applicable in case of multiple remotes
Refresh: "no is marked as missing" error
Speed-search in tables/trees was at wrong horizontal position if the control was scrolled horizontally
Standard window:
Commit: completion did not suggest submodule changes
Discard did not work on missing submodule
Reflog: revealing did not work reliably
Windows:
Workaround for repaint problems if a menu is opened while loading
Https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/791
Working Tree window:
Changes view: unselecting "Automatic" re-enabled it on hunk stage
After committing all files, the displayed one remained (regression)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 12 (Aug 21, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 11 (Jul 20, 2023)

New in SmartGit 22.1.7 (Jul 17, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 10 (Jul 7, 2023)

New in SmartGit 22.1.6 (Jun 22, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 9 (Jun 7, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 8 (May 11, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 7 (Apr 27, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 6 (Apr 14, 2023)

New in SmartGit 22.1.5 (Mar 31, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 5 (Mar 30, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 4 (Mar 8, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 3 (Feb 23, 2023)

New in SmartGit 22.1.4 (Feb 22, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 2 (Jan 25, 2023)

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 1 (Jan 20, 2023)

New Features, Improvements:
Azure DevOps: support OAuth authentication for multiple cloud accounts
GitHub integration: switch OAuth to loopback-callback for improved convenience and security
Syntax coloring:
support for Lua/Nelua
support for Odin
Standard window:
allow to reorder tabs with drag and drop
Features: support for multiple "main branches", e.g. develop, release-v1, release-v1.1
My History: added option in Hamburger menu to show tags pointing to the displayed commits
My History, All Branches + Tags: selecting 2 refs selects them in the graph, too, for easier comparison
Fixed Bugs:
Changes view:
did not update properly for Index-only changes
might show outdated diff after switching repositories
Changes view, Compare, Conflict Solver, Index Editor:
possible problems with increased line heights caused by non-US-ASCII characters resulting in selection problems, Goto Next/Prev Change selecting wrong lines
Find did not find text inside selection
Syntax:
Crystal: numbers can have suffixes like _i8
C#: hex literal may start with 0X (uppercase x)
Conflict Solver: problem with conflict at end of file with/without line separate in last line
Spell Checker: old (removed) language is still shown in context menu for typo
SSH: possible problems with ! in GIT_SSH path on Windows
GUI:
File completion: selection is lost if popup is open and the selection is modified (with Shift+Left)
Graph: tooltip for truncated messsage did not hide if mouse was moved
Output dialog: could get too large (high)
Table controls: multi-selection could break for refreshs
Standard window:
Graph: main branch was not always layouted left-most
Refresh: possible "missing object" error when opening repository
Start Feature: must not reset diverged local main branch onto remote branch
Repositories tab: possible is-disposed error when renaming a repository
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Clean Working Tree: reworked options to make more obvious what is done
Delete Branch: cleans up Git-Flow branch information in Git config files
Discard submodule: can operate on multiple selected submodules now
History-related operations: are enabled for inapplicable commits, but show an information explaining why they are not available
Refresh: files inaccessible due to file system permissions are denoted by a "inaccessible" state
Squash: authorship defaults to oldest author with most recent date (low-level property "squash.authorshipDefault")
Log window:
Branches, context menu: "Toggle" is only available where reasonable
Changes view: a different font is used (on Windows) so the comments are better readable (font can be configured with low-level property "changesView.comment.fontName")
Discard should not abort commands (it is too easy to confirm, e.g. while bisecting) by default (low-level property "discard.canAbort")
Graph: distinct popup menus for Pull Request and Stashes
while Bisecting: all commands that make no sense are disabled
Standard window:
Checkout commit: will create a temporary branch
Commit: added low-level property "standard.selectIndexOnFocusCommitMessage" to always select Index when focusing commit message input field
Directories view: can delete untracked directories
Files views: can group by state
Repositories tab:
ability to Mark as Favorite (putting repositories at begin of group)
filter input field can filter by full path now
if repository at path is not known, it can be added/opened
if directory at path is no repository, it can be initialized
Features:
reads .gitflow file for the defaults
commands work for repositories without remote, too
Start Feature:
checks for diverged main branch earlier
update submodules
is also available in My History toolbar
Integrate Feature: improved wording and display of progress
Undo Last Commit: requires only clean Index, but allows dirty working tree
added Clean Working Tree (requires "standard.actions.advanced.clean" to be set to "true")
updated bundled Java to 17.0.5
updated SWT to v4958r2

New in SmartGit 22.1.3 (Jan 20, 2023)

New in SmartGit 22.1.2 (Dec 23, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1.1 (Nov 24, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1.0 (Nov 11, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 RC 4 (Nov 8, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 RC 3 (Oct 27, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 RC 2 (Oct 21, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 RC 1 (Oct 15, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 17 (Oct 10, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 16 (Sep 30, 2022)

NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
FIXED BUGS:
Branches view:
Add Branch/Tag was missing in Local Branches/Tags category
Git-Flow:
Release and Support category context menus miss "Start" operation
Changes view: clicking submodule commit did not open submodule anymore
Cherry-Pick: when cherry-picking multiple commit and using Commit instead of Continue after a conflict, "git cherry-pick --continue" needs to be invoked
Clone, GitHub: "Object 'id' not found" error when trying to list repositories
Graph:
for remote refs, jigsaw piece didn't always show up for tracked remote branch
Git-Flow toolbar button misses various operations
GitLab: strange, unparsable message in case of duplicate merge request
Refresh:
git/config files could not be parsed if lines ended with to be continued on next line
git/config files could not be parsed correctly if section or key names were not entirely lower case
possible internal error in case of 0-size or incomplete files in .git dir
possible internal error related to missing-untracked rename detection
Subtrees: ignore subtrees which form invalid hierarchies (which can occur due to buggy commit messages)
Syntax:
InnoSetup: wrong highlight for '-quoted commands
Log:
Commit view: Copy Full ID was missing
Files: sorting by Name was broken
Refresh: subtrees may still show up for existing repositories after having configured LLP "nodecache.subtrees.enabled=false"
Standard window:
possible internal error filtering graph
Files view (Local and Graph): renamed file's name might not show up properly
Jenkins: query did not timeout
Working Tree window:
Cherry-Pick: did not remember selected button
Linux:
installation update: temp dir might remain (and can't be trashed on restart)
Windows:
command line parameters: a trailing in a quotes string was treated as escaped "
OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
Add Branch: by default the "Add Branch & Checkout" button is selected, because it is needed more often, unless the Standard window is used and a checkout would be rejected because of local changes
Bisect: in Finish dialog allow to copy ID
Graph:
Drag and drop of (remote=local) refs should only show (local) while dragging
Files:
Save As: swapped buttons to be in visual order
Merge: reject to merge commits from own history
Rebase: immediately start interactive rebase when trying to rebase onto own history
Stage: warns if a (text) file contains conflict markers
Standard window:
GitHub integration: operations like Finish should not fail if connection to GitHub is not possible
Mini-Log vs. Commit Message: better use available space
Push: if no remote is present, offer to Add Remote
Remote | Add
Local Files:
double click on a file in the Local Files display either can stage/unstage the file or open the compare; this can be configured in the preferences
context menu:
for conflicting files, the Conflict Solver is shown as default command
no default (bold) menu item for multi-selection
My History:
CI information also honors pending/running workflows
GUI:
use new icon for file renamed in index, modified in working tree
line length guide: background color for too long line hard to see on dark theme
don't show preview expiration date in title as it confuses users

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 15 (Sep 5, 2022)

New Features, Improvements:
Japanese translation:
Fixed Bugs:
GitHub: Clone dialog did not show up all (organization) repositories
Log:
Commit details: fixed open links for unpushed commits or commits pushed to only a specific repository
Save As: saved file with (temp-file) permission 400; now trying to retain the permission of an overwritten file or using 644
GitHub: creating pull request to upstream fails
Refresh:
internal error related to remove.<id>.fetch/push definitions which do not refer to remote refs
possible internal error related to squashed subtrees
LFS: rename of LFS file is not detected (untracked/missing shows up instead)
Standard window:
Create Pull Request: allowed to send a pull request to same branch which was rejected then by the server
Pulls: popup might show too low number of pulled branches
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Commit message fields, JIRA issue selection: use replace-all for all dialogs (not some replace-all, others replace-selection)
default font size can be now configured using ui.fonts.defaultSize (has no influence on menubar, popup menu, radio button/checkbox symbols)
Repository settings (or for defaults in preferences)
Pull: allow to configure Merge vs. Rebase behavior
Fetch All: to fetch from all remotes
Refresh:
more memory-efficient untracked-missing rename detection
Log:
Graph:
Merge commits (even those in stashes) are shown in black now (changed default of log.graph.showMergeCommitsGray to false) because they are often more important than the merged commits
Log and Working Tree windows:
Branches view: added Fetch to the remote's context menu
Standard window:
Commit message field: optional index selection became a little bit smarter (removed files.selectIndexOnFocusCommitMessage)
Files: improved the display of long file paths, especially if renamed
Local Files toolbar button shows the total of Working Tree and Index changes
Submodule: closing a submodule repository tries to select the parent repository
GUI:
toolbar: should be more tolerant now when dragging slightly as part of the click

New in SmartGit 21.2.4 (Sep 2, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 14 (Aug 22, 2022)

New Features, Improvements:
Cherry-Pick: support for Skip
LFS:
for untracked files the (will-be-tracked-by-LFS) state is also indicated
Track: is limited to untracked files
Lock/Unlock: is limited to unlocked/locked files
Files tables: a new column "LFS" is available for showing the LFS state
Rebase/Revert: conflicts are considered as warnings, not errors
Standard window:
Graph: added hamburger menu for columns and author display
LFS commands
Local Files:
unchanged LFS-locked files will be always be shown (to not forget about unlocking them)
at the right side, LFS-state is shown
Fixed Bugs:
Checkout: EOL-correction may not work for UTF-8 with BOM encoded .gitattributes
Clone: possible internal error trying to clone from SVN repository
Commit message input field:
after clearing the default message (e.g. after a cherry-pick), the next refresh brought it back
possible incorrect position of line-end guide lines depending on the used font, e.g. for Iosevka SS04
default Tools: a new default Edit tool is created if the previous one had been deleted or modified
GitHub: error "Object 'defaultBranchRef' not found as parent of 'repository'"
Refresh: local LFS lock information was used even if querying for locks was disabled (so showing easily outdated information)
Log:
Graph: searching for refs was broken (regression since 21.2)
Standard window:
File log failed to open for renamed file
Graph: deselecting commit did not clear Changes view
Pull: LFS locks were not queried even if low-level property status.lfs.locks was set
Refresh:
for GitHub repositories, the Graph was not updated reliably after performing an operation, e.g. Pull
internal error opening Git-SVN repository
Working Tree window:
Journal: false-positive warning about pushed commits for detached commits
Other Noteworthy Changes:
added low-level property log.graph.commitMessageTruncatedEllipsis
Standard window:
Graph:
Copy commands should not append trailing newline
selecting a pull request should show commit details for this artificial commit (as the Log window does)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 13 (Jul 28, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 12 (Jul 22, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 11 (Jul 3, 2022)

New Features, Improvements:
Bisect: the user is notified about the first found bad commit
Clone, GitHub: shows the same "top repositories" as GitHub website
Log graph, Rebase-state:
Reworked logic for pendding ("todo") and "done" commits
The "current" commit is denoted
Standard window:
Bisect:
The Graph's context menu contains a "Try Commit" menu item
Garbage Collector
Fixed Bugs:
Start Feature: hang after adding feature for which the name contained a quote character
Investigate:
JIRA-links in commit message had no context menu to copy URL
Some controls were focusable which shouldn't be
Refresh: repository might be false-positively considered as bare
UI:
Pressing ESC inside a (multiline) Text control did not close the dialog
Pressing ESC to close a completion popup closed the dialog, too
Log window:
Refresh:
Possible internal error related to missing local objects
Confusion of replaced vs. replacing ID when using git-replace
Standard window:
GitHub:
No pull requests showed up in case of the source repository of one pull request being deleted
Possibly obsolete model might have been set during pull request refresh resulting in "jumps" of the graph to some unexpected/old state
External tools: cancelling a tool's Save dialog showed empty result window
Stashes: Apply was enabled even for multi-selection
UI: minor gliches at the borders of some left panes
Working tree window:
Possible internal error trying to scan repository from detached working tree
Journal: shortcuts displayed in context menu, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+K, did not work
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Add/Open Repository: when selecting a .git-directory, the working tree should be used instead
Bisect: dropped separate "Reset" command by using "Abort"
Changes view, GitHub: denote whether comment is pending
Conflict Solver: the default SmartGit waits for the external process to finish before proceeding (low-level property externalConflictSolver.waitForProcess)
GitHub: switched to GraphQL API (improving performance and error message)
Syntax coloring:
C(++): support for binary literals, e.g. 0b0100
Pascal: added try/finally keywords
File Compare, Conflict Solver, Text editor: Undo/Redo first selects the change to undo/redo
Log window:
Branches view: hamburger menu options work now only for the current and new windows, but not for other already open ones (to be consistent with other options)
Standard window:
Graph: honors low level property log.graph.preserveParentOrder now
All Branches + Tags: hamburger menu to configure sort order and whether tags are shown by default
Stashes:
Changing Graph selection also updates selection in the left stashes list (so both are synchronized)
Graph: allow to apply/drop stashes by right-clicking one of their commits
Some path tables: improved sorting ("subdir" before "subdir/subsubdir" before "subdir-2")

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 10 (Jun 1, 2022)

New in SmartGit 21.2.3 (May 30, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 9 (May 6, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 8 (Apr 13, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 7 (Mar 23, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 6 (Feb 28, 2022)

New Features, Improvements:
Standard window:
Pull toolbar button: for multiple remotes separate actions to fetch separate remote
Working tree files: allow to open/edit (on Windows filetype specific using registry entries)
Fixed Bugs:
Changes view: error banner might remain after switching to a different file
Compare, Conflict Solver, ...:
Find & Replace: "Replace All" did not replace the occurrences before the caret/selection
Graph:
SHA column showed too many characters, partly truncated
Interactive Rebase: misleading error message when trying to invoke on the initial commit
Preferences dialog, Hosting providers: cancelling Edit dialog affected original data
Push: always configured tracking even if corresponding options were disabled
Refresh:
Files declared as binary in .gitattributes might be interpreted as text and showed up modified
Syntax coloring:
Bash: invalid detection of $() in some cases
Standard window:
After cloning an empty repository and performing the first commit, master showed warning about broken tracking
Commit: clicking an outgoing commit asked to replace even if the messages were equal
Edit Message was enabled while rebasing
History, Files: pressing Ctrl/Cmd+S on file selection triggered Save Stash instead of Save As
Output: might not show up the actual cause of an error
Push Up To: for a new branch did not configure tracking
GUI:
Some toggle actions/checkbox menu items did not work correctly
Find Command/Find Object popup: scrolling with mouse switched tabs
Windows: File Log did not scroll Files selection to visible area reliably
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Add Remote dialog: ability to enter/select absolute paths
Changes view:
"Take Ours" and "Take Theirs" work even for files too large to display
Consistent handling of errors in banner
If Next/Prev loads a different file, no popup is shown any more
Commit: for an empty repository, performing the first commit will create an empty first commit
Compare, Conflict Solver, ...:
Find & Replace: "Replace All" is now undoable in 1 step
Header text above file contents becomes selectable
Conflict Solver/Changes view: replaced "Stage" by "Mark Resolved"
External tools: for return values != 0 show a "failed" icon
GitHub: merge pull request dialog improvements
Graph:
Rebase: shows number of already rebased + overall number of commits
Log window:
Graph: improved bisecting coloring
Rebase Interactive dialog: allows to drag multiple commits
Refresh: support for sparse Git index files
Syntax coloring:
Bash: improved for commands between $( and )
Standard window:
Commit view: clicking the HEAD commit selects "Amend" checkbox also for repositories without remote
Changes view: shortcuts for Next/Prev change
File log: set shown refs to same as shown in repository Graph
Improved display of renamed files
Ref context menu: added Rebase (similar to Merge)
Start feature is enabled for empty repositories, but explains next steps to user
Working Tree window, Log window:
Files view: if the split table for index and working tree is shown, it will behave similar to the Standard window: keeping the empty working tree table visible if all changes are staged
Spell checker: added low-level property spellchecker.checkWordAtCaret
Setup wizard: option to select Standard window as default
SWT: setting focus should not bring the window to front
MacOS: Help menu missed search input field
Linux tar.gz bundle: rebuilt Git 2.35.0 on Ubuntu 18.04

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 5 (Feb 2, 2022)

Commit:
the first commit in an empty (externally initialized) repository will create an empty "initial commit", too
Log window:
Commit:
Open links works for pull requests, too
Graph:
Pull Request: added Drop Local to context menu
Standard window:
Commit:
shows current branch name as header
for feature branch more pushed commits are shown from the feature branch
display Submodules and allows to open them in separate tab (in Local Changes, Submodules)
improved feature workflow:
shows 3 buttons: Create, Integrate, Finish
Integrate prepares for a trivial Finish, integrating remote feature changes, integrating remote develop changes, pushing
Finish also works if not yet pushed, but based on latest develop commit
Output:
clicking the left-most status bar icon also can show the output of the currently running command
after a command fails, a detailed output dialog is shown by default, but can be configured to just show a auto-hiding popup
Repositories ("+") tab: added Select Obsolete Repositories and Move To commands to context menu
added shortcuts to access Repositories ("+") tab, Files, Graph and Commit views
Find Object and Find Command (Ctrl+P, Ctrl+Shift+P)
Fixed Bugs:
Changes view: error about too long lines showed line number zero-based
Commit:
in Modify-Rebase mode Commit triggered Step instead of Continue
Log window:
Commit: does not reliably update pull request comments once loaded
Refresh:
Log:
possible internal error in case of degenerated commit/tag objects
possible internal error related to non-standard lines in commit objects
for worktree repository, bisect-refs were not detected
file handle leak
Windows: could fail in case of broken directory junction
"slow clean filters" was over-ambitious
Syntax:
Shell script: several problems
Notifications may not be closable if showing up in multiple windows
Standard window:
Branches/Graph ref context menu:
right-clicking tag should not allow to check out
delete/merge was enabled for HEAD
Graph: "Local changes" banner sometimes kept showing for no local changes
Pull: false-positive warning "local branch seems to be a rewrite"
possible internal error because of incorrectly disposed repository controls
Init: endless spinning wheel in status bar
Stage: error staging a modified, renamed file
MacOS:
with dark system and light SmartGit theme the (x refs) box in the Graph was unreadable
"Show Standard Window" menu item was placed in wrong menu
Windows 11:
docking tabs: x button showed up as + (unicode character was no found)
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Hosting providers: for customer server, SSL system trust store ("WINDOWS-ROOT") is also used
Submodule update: shows progress (requires Git 2.27+)
Log window:
Repositories view: don't display uninitialized submodules (to be consistent with Working tree window)
Working tree window:
Journal: style similar to Graph
Git: updated to version 2.35.0
SSH: updated SSHJ library (required for newer SSH servers)
Preferences:
Commands, Commit: removed option "Use font configured in User Interface"
User Interface: changed "Use background color for file tables to indicate certain states" to the low-level property filteredTable.useBackgroundColor

New in SmartGit 21.2.2 (Jan 27, 2022)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 4 (Jan 7, 2022)

New Features, Improvements:
Changes view: indicate LFS state
Files view: indicate LFS state
Standard window:
Compare with Working Tree
Integrate: allows to integrate ahead and behind feature branch without requiring to push first
Syntax coloring:
support for Groovy/Gradle scripts
Fixed Bugs:
startup: internal error related to settings
Blame: not readable in dark theme
Branches: remote branches did not show up for git config "smartgit.refLimit.remoteBranch[Include|Exclude]RegEx" configured empty
Edit Commit Message: for the HEAD commit, the message did not ended with a newline like for non-HEAD commits
Edit Ignore File: showed only subset of all available ignore files
Refresh:
false-positive "slow clean filters" warning
upper/lower case file name problems with .gitattributes (LFS)
possible internal error related to recursive definition of symrefs
Log:
Subdirectory Log: fails with "The specified path does not exist in the repository"
Standard window:
Changes view: changing font/size in preferences did not trigger redraw
Rebase Interactive: did not warn about modifying history
Linux:
selected tab is hardly noticable for dark system theme
Working Tree window:
Show Changes did nothing on partly staged files
macOS:
macOS 11, tables: scrollbar might not match table content
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=575259
Other Noteworthy Changes
Built-in SSH client: support for "--" parameter used by Git-LFS
Refresh: more efficient processing of filters (e.g. LFS)
Log:
Commit Details: limit amount of displayed "merged to branches" to prevent performance problems and internal error for too long, wrapped lines
Graph:
use gray as color for the signed symbol
use subtle indicator for multi-line commit messages
a tooltip shows more text for truncated messages
added Copy Name to context menu of ref
show triangle by default in refs to indicate HEAD ref (use log.graph.drawHeadRefWithTriangle to disable)
Refresh: for partial clones, avoid fetching root commits
drag and drop: don't starts scrolling too quickly
Standard window:
added LLP standard.filter.showPermanently to show the filter input field permanently
shows banner in Graph view if there are local changes
Start feature: offer "develop" as main ref, if present
Bug/crash report: if build is too old, asks to upgrade and don't send
updated the bundled JRE to 11.0.13
accelerators are ignored while a mouse button is pressed
support for commit dates > year 2038
license: only up to 3 machines

New in SmartGit 21.2.1 (Dec 22, 2021)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 3 (Dec 9, 2021)

New Features, Improvements:
Preferences:
added page for important options of the user's git config, e.g., user.name/user.email
Standard window:
Copy path/name on local directory (context menu)
Edit git config for repository and user
Ignore on local directory (context menu)
Integrate (Feature): streamlined workflow
immediately integrates main branch (and skips tracked branch) if the local branch is a complete rewrite of its remote branch
if Integrate is a no-op, tell the user to Push the branch to finally become able to Finish it
Pull defaults to Fetch if the branch is a rewrite of its remote branch
Fixed Bugs:
assertion starting SmartGit with previous settings
git config writing:
empty values in config files were not preserved
empty sections should not be created, but kept if existing
Tag grouping: might have written empty "taggrouping" section to config
Graph:
aborting a drag and drop (e.g. with Esc) over a link opened this link
Refresh: possible internal error opening bare repository containing .git directory
Standard window:
Clone:
failed silently if, e.g. the Git-LFS processing caused errors
if a clone in a different tab finishs, the active cloning card also became hidden
internal error cloning into a directory which was open as repository already
Discard: internal error invoking on selection with files and submodules
Local Changes Files: conflict file showed up in Working Tree and Index lists
Pull: showed "bas revision 'HEAD'" if repository was empty
Working Tree window:
Journal, Edit Message: actually invoked Add Tag
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Add Branch/Tag: use HEAD if invoked with focus in Branches view
Clone: shows progress for "Filtering content" phase
Commit and other operations: don't check for user.name/user.email
Conflict Solver (external): set low-level property externalConflictSolver.waitForProcess to false to wait until the command has finished before showing the resolve-dialog
Graph: improved auto-scrolling for drag and drop, especially with respect to when to start scrolling
Preferences:
User interface: option to load previously open repositories in "Preferred window" or the previously used window
Repository Settings: removed "Remember as default" option (because of the possibility to edit the defaults in the preferences)
Setup wizard: don't ask for user.name/user.email if ~/.gitconfig exists, but can't be read, or if it contains includes
SSH fingerprint confirmation dialog: show as Base64 encoded SHA-256 (as this is the information published by, e.g., GitHub)
set low-level property ssh.fingerprint.sha256 to false to see the old MD5-hex hash
Standard window:
My History, All Branches + Tags: clicking a ref should scroll it into view if already selected, but not visible
Working Tree window:
Compare: invoking on an unchanged file always compares with working tree file (to be editable), not with index

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 2 (Nov 26, 2021)

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 1 (Nov 22, 2021)

New Features, Improvements:
Graph view:
highlights the selected commit's first-parent history in bold (on HiDPI screens, for LoDPI screens set the low-level property log.graph.highlightStrongAtDpiScaling to 1)
https://smartgit.userecho.com/en/communities/1/topics/295-
Cherry Pick, Revert: support "Continue"
Fixed Bugs:
Changes view: if one image is refreshed, zoom was reset for that image only but not the other
File Log: possible incorrect mapping of refs to commits for skipped merges
Refresh:
certain cherry-picking and reverting states were not detected
a symlink to a file with non-ASCII characters in the name showed up as always modified
Linux: autohiding scrollbar in Graph caused problems, replaced by separate slider
Windows: bundled JRE was not detected under very special conditions
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Commits view:
for 2 selected commits shows the commit details for both commits
for >2 selected commits shows the number of the selected commits
Graph view:
more ref colors are available
used color is based on ref name (so is reproducible even on different machines)
in standard window and Log window with Default Coloring the commit dots use the branch color
unpushed commits are shown using a filled dot
improved filter responsiveness, especially for many matching commits
Standard window:
drag and drop is more strict about dragging a ref or commit (similar to the context menu)
less intrusive filter input fields for graph and file tables
Local Changes: the filter only operates on the Working Tree files, not on the Index files, same for the selected Directory
show separate page for a cloning repository
if there are local changes, Pull will be rejected completely (to prevent less easy to understand states)
Preferences:
for the Standard window the features can be limited to not overwhelm Git newbies
made more clear which Commands option influences what window
UI page: removed "Remember Log/Working tree" option because it was obsolete now with repositories remembered in what window they were opened
Extensions for syntax coloring: show modified (compared to default) with ability to reset to default
Search Repositories:
clear found repository list on new manual search
made found repositories list sortable
UI:
remember which repository was opened in what window type (and the order and current repository for the standard window)
split "Modify or Split Commit" into 2 separate commands
unified all graph context menus to have similar, more logic grouping of commands
use larger font in some dialogs
simpler icon (on macOS 11/12 better matching the others)

New in SmartGit 21.2.0 (Nov 18, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.2 RC 3 (Nov 16, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1.3 (Oct 29, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.2 RC 1 (Oct 21, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1.2 (Oct 1, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.2 Preview 2 (Sep 30, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1.1 (Aug 12, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.2 Preview 1 (Aug 9, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 (Jul 12, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 RC 6 (Jul 9, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 RC 5 (Jul 2, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 RC 4 (Jun 17, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 RC 3 (Jun 10, 2021)

NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
Diff tools: support for ${baseFile} in addition to ${leftFile} and ${rightFile}
FIXED BUGS:
Azure integration: possible OAuth-related internal error
Changes view:
Apply Selection did not work on a subset of added block (same holds true Revert Selection and removed block, regression since 20.2)
internal error when trying to apply selection of modified block which has no inner-line changes
Take Ours/Theirs and Recreate Conflict may show false-positive warnings about manually modified files
Diff Tools: possible confusion of ${rightEncoding} with ${leftEncoding}
Distributed Reviews: deleted comment not denoted as "deleted" (strike-through) until repository is reopened
Edit User Config: may open the wrong config file or fail to open non-existing file (especially on Windows with HOME, HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH)
Find Objects: possible internal error when selecting a tag to check out
GitLab: fix "local merge request commits differ from server-side commits" for merge request which is merging back and forth with target branch
Investigate (Linux): tooltips without readable text in dark theme
workaround for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=573760
Log:
Graph: does not update if having only toggled old ref
Partial clone: fetch-on-demand should disallow auto gc
Syntax:
SQL: incorrect detection of comment
OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
Changes view: can show an error message permanently in a banner
Changes view/File Compare: fine-tuned default colors for dark theme to have better contrast
Discard: low-level property discard.safeDefault=false hides "Discard to Stash" button
Log:
Graph:
when filtered, de-facto inapplicable history-related actions (like Edit Commit Message) should actually be disabled
while filtering the buttons "Reveal", "Reset" and "Rerun Thorougly" have a tooltip with further information
restored manifest of smartgit.exe
added command line option --add-tool for adding diff or merge tools, e.g.:
smartgit.exe --add-tool type=diff pattern=*.eap "command=C:Program Filesdifftool.exe" "parameters=${leftFile} ${rightFile}"
smartgit.exe --add-tool type=merge pattern=*.eap "command=C:Program Filesmergetool.exe" "parameters=${leftFile} ${rightFile} ${baseFile} ${mergedFile}"
Git execution (Windows): if HOMEDRIVE+HOMEPATH is no valid directory, fall back to USERPROFILE

New in SmartGit 21.1 RC 2 (May 19, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 RC 1 (May 5, 2021)

New in SmartGit 20.2.5 (May 4, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 Preview 6 (Apr 27, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 Preview 4 (Mar 31, 2021)

New Features, Improvements:
Changes view: show common images side-by-side
Changes view, Compare: keyboard shortcuts for staging hunks, lines, inner-line changes
Compare, Conflict Solver, ...: optionally replaces tabs with spaces, backspace unindents leading spaces (preferences option)
Log Graph, Journal
show tiny gravatar by default
if no gravatar is found (or it is disabled in the preferences), own images based on the initials and email are created
JIRA, Git-Flow, Push: optionally set a feature in-progress
Fixed Bugs:
Changes view:
incorrect Delete Block text, wrong confirmation
Clone: for "svn" and "svn+ssh" protocols, automatically use SVN
Log:
Graph:
switching between "Follow Only First Parents"/all loaded to many commits
possible flickering with "Follow Only First Parents"
possible internal error during refresh for "experimental.nodeCache.useCommitGraph=true"
File Log: Branch/Merge Coloring did not work if no HEAD was shown
Merge Coloring (including Merge and Cherry-Pick dialog): false-positive mergable commits if HEAD is not shown
for Mergable/Branch coloring top-most node may show up in gray, even it's "matched"
Branches:
internal error unselecting all refs
Refresh: possible internal error after a "git repack"
Pull/others: false-positive warning about SVN though pure Git repository
Syntax:
Java: bug in lexing escape characters in Strings
YAML: problem with ' in values
Working Tree window:
Log Chooser dialogs: possible flickering when opening (outdated graph showed up for a short while)
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Changes view: compact display is default now
Ignore
remembers selected destination
added low-level property ignore.supportTrackedDir to ignore tracked directories
Log:
Graph:
switched to Git commit-graphs (instead of own node cache)
switching between "Follow Only First Parents"/all should preserve commit order better now
"Follow Only First Parents": layouts new roots downmost - see log.graph.sortingRootOrder
"Show working tree node permanently" is the default now - see https://twitter.com/smartgithg/status/1370385647719084040
"Sort Merge Parents First" is default now (because "git log --graph" uses this approach, too)
improved filter performance
double-clicking on a commit while bisecting: default to checkout the commit (not creating a branch)
Files: replaced "Unmodified" with "Unchanged"
Working Tree window:
Merge, Cherry-Pick and others: remembers graph roots independently
updated bundled Git to version 2.30.2 (fixing security leak https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21300 when cloning LFS repositories)
Windows: use system proxy by default (set java.net.useSystemProxies to true if it is unset)

New in SmartGit 21.1 Preview 3 (Mar 10, 2021)

New features:
Working tree window: keep scroll position when switching between HEAD-Index and Index-Working Tree
Go to Next/Prev Change: if there is no more change, select at least the last one
Commit view, file name completion: suggest staged items before unstaged ones
Discard: remembers the last used option
Git: support for "init.defaultBranch"
Log:
Files: denotes case-changed file name (and possible duplicate) like in the Working Tree window
Open From Working Tree: works on multi-selection
Rename (Windows): allow to rename case-changed file back to original Git name, e.g. Index name
Syntax:
Shell script: support for heredoc
Fixed Bugs
Did not scroll to single deletion at end of file
Ignore Line Endings was not honored
Switching from Unified to Side-by-side view, caret may be off 1 line
Unified view: Goto Next/Previous did not work for change block at end of file
Working Tree window: Changes view not populated after being made visible
File completion (in file/directory path input fields): completion should not replace symlinks by absolute paths
GitLab: pull requests may not show up if they originate from repositories for which the current user is no "member"
Graph:
Hiding the empty working tree node was visually noisy
Toggling a ref was noisy for selected Follow Only Primary Parent option
Merge coloring was influenced by the Follow Only Primary Parent option
Log:
Files: Submodule Log (History of Updates) may fail with "missing object" error
Graph: for orphan checkouts, Working tree node should always show up
File Log: possible internal error after external commit to repository
Refresh (Linux): possible native crash related to overflow of memory-mapped file handles
Syntax:
ANTLR: range with backslash might be parsed too greedy
Other Noteworthy Changes:
From now on SVN support is only available in commercial edition
Add Branch: warn if branch starts with <remote>/
Added low-level property push.modifyPushedCommitsCheck.skipGitFlowFeatures to optionally skip modify-pushed commits check for feature branches
Added low-level property commandDialogs.rememberOptions to avoid remembering last used options in command dialogs
Log graph, colorings: don't use red one because red might be considered as something to worry about (e.g. invalid state)
Table controls: if the selection is scrolled outside the visible view, a refresh should not try to scroll it into view

New in SmartGit 20.2.4 (Mar 9, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 Preview 2 (Feb 22, 2021)

New in SmartGit 20.2.3 (Feb 15, 2021)

New in SmartGit 21.1 Preview 1 (Feb 10, 2021)

NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
Changes view:
completely rewritten
new "Unified" display option
syntax highlighting even in compact mode
manual expansion in compact mode
apply changes in compact or unified mode, too
Compare:
select from multiple configured, matching file compare tools
improved memory consumption related to syntax coloring
GitHub/other hosting providers: allow to fetch conflicting pull requests and denote as "conflicting"
History-based commands: allow to rewrite merge commits
Log:
Branches view: context menu item to forget about commit entries
Files view:
Split-Off Commit
Cherry Pick selected files only
Graph:
double-clicking a local branch symbol checks it out
File log: for grouped tags denotes whether all tags are signed
Rebase Continue: optionally don't show confirmation dialog again
Modify or Split Commit: allow to stop/edit all commits
Refresh: performance improvements
Working Tree window:
Add Branch: considers Branches view selection
FIXED BUGS:
Log:
Revealing a stash did not always ensure that the base commit was loaded
Rebase Continue: might fail if commit message contains leading #
Syntax:
several languages were too restrictive, e.g. for lines starting with # - which was wrong and slow
OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
updated Git to version 2.30.0
Log, Graph: when autoscrolling while drag-and-drop, don't scroll to 'wrong' direction
unified Find Action and Find Object in one popup
wizards: unified [Next >] and [Finish] buttons
Branches view: changed order of context menu items
more specific refresh progress for expensive tasks like rebuilding the Log Cache
File icons: more modern look, easier to distinguish by color-blind people
Compare: enabled smart tab handling by default
low-level-properties:
defaults for executable.addBinDirectoryToPath and credentials.improvedPromptHanding changed to true
renamed gui.* to ui.*
if a file or directory chooser is shown, the display of other dialogs (from other threads) is delayed until the file or directory chooser is closed
make opening multiple repositories easier by setting the low-level property repositories.maxRe

New in SmartGit 20.2.2 (Jan 13, 2021)

New in SmartGit 20.2.1 (Dec 17, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2.0 (Nov 23, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 RC 5 (Nov 11, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 RC4 (Nov 3, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 RC3 (Oct 28, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 RC1 (Oct 13, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 Preview 6 (Sep 30, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1.5 (Sep 29, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 Preview 5 (Sep 18, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 Preview 4 (Sep 2, 2020)

NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
Subtree:
Add command
Reset: allow to create empty "marker" commit
Preferences: added search input field
Branches: added "Select Obsolete Local Branches" menu item to ☰ menu
Find Object (Ctrl/Cmd+P): also treats space separated search patterns as separate sub patterns
Discard: by default (optionally) stashes local changes (kind of Undo-capability)
Merge/Rebase: will not disabled in all inappropriate cases, but rather shows an information why is it not possible (otherwise it is not obvious for novice users)
Tools (Windows): default tool for editing in Notepad
Changes/Compare/Index Editor/Conflict Solver: UTF-32 support, e.g. emojis
FIXED BUGS:
Log:
Graph:
possible internal error related to certain rebasing states
dragging range of commits should only offer to rebase for HEAD, not other branches
possible confusions using multiple subtrees in the same main repository
internal error trying to drag "Working Tree/Index" node
Revision column for SVN repository was too dark in dark theme
Commit view:
GitHub/others: improved detection of correct URL for Open link
Branches, Subtrees: checking out tag did not perform subtree check
Changes view: problem when trying to stage unicode characters which had been added to plain ASCII file
Investigate: internal error on macOS
Refresh:
Resolve: might fail with "git rm invalid usage" error
Stage: be more tolerant in case of file system traversal errors, e.g. broken symlinks/junctions
Tools: removed obsolete ${hg} and ${hgDir} parameters
SVN:
Clone: possible problems when opening a background cloing repository in a second window
OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
Log:
Graph: rearranged drag and drop menu to have more stable positions of menu entries
Files: when comparing the Working Tree/Index with a commit, a banner is shown explaining that the Index is compared with the commit
Add Repository: resolve "core.worktree" before adding repositories to avoid subsequent warnings about unsupported "core.worktree"
Refresh: improved warning for "unsupported" core.worktree
Branches, Subtrees: Merge/Reset operations are available for subtree refs
Files view: for nested roots, Ignore also is available in context menu
Remote, Rename: uses same editing logic as Remote Add, e.g. replacing spaces with underscores
Clone: for the Check Out Branch first suggest "master", then "develop", then remote HEAD
Stage: log warnings for files which are ignored due to certain "access denied" problems
Syntax coloring:
typing text uses existing coloring until refreshed resulting in more stable coloring
reimplemented some language definitions
Tools: if ${commit2} is used, 2 selected items are required (use a second tool without ${commit2} if it should be optional)

New in SmartGit 20.1.4 (Jul 29, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1.3 (Jun 23, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.2 Preview 2 (Jun 22, 2020)

New Features, Improvements:
Create Branch, Start Feature: options for configuring default prefix in .git/config
[smartgit "gui"]
prefixAddBranch = myBranchPrefix
prefixStartFeature = myFeaturePrefix
"Edit | Customize" (accelerators) was replaced by central customization of keyboard shortcuts in the preferences
External tools: use fresh environment variables (without any modifications of the SmartGit launcher)
GitHub: reworked authorization due to "Deprecating OAuth Authorization API"
Log:
Graph:
Filtering:
easier and more visible options, easier reset
faster for finding ID
improved layout performance
Files:
shows banner when performing a diff (2 selected commits) with option to swap both refs
for working tree and index tables, columns "Last Changed On" and "Size" were added
Changes view can auto-hide:
drag Changes view on top of the Graph view
selecting a file, the Changes view comes to front, unselecting the file, the Graph view comes to front
Refresh: improved performance
Search/Filter input fields: more visible RegEx option (some filter input field don't have it any more, because not needed)
Submodules:
Repositories: shows more human readable name for the Ref similar to how "git submodule" does
Subtree support:
"subtree merge" command
"subtree reset" command
"subtree split" command
Syntax coloring re-implemented based on ANTLR, because the previously used library was not supported any more
newly support "languages": ANTLR, bat/cmd files, CMake, InnoSetup, Kotlin, properties files, YAML
less popular were removed (but might be provided if there is demand and users provide test files)
macOS: use monospace-digit-font hint for system font, so e.g. date columns get aligned correctly
Windows: if Windows is configured to dark app theme, SmartGit's automatic theme will cause it to launch in dark theme, too
Fixed Bugs:
Commit message editor: caret was invisible if at line length guide position
GitHub: OAuth scopes were not properly set to access GitHub "workflows"
Log:
Changes:
possible out-of-memory error when accessing huge file
Comment display: foreground and background colors were not configurable in theme
LFS files were not deflated, despite of "smartgit.compare.applyGitFilters" being set
connector between both panes were not reliable cleared when unselecting file
Graph:
possible unnecessary crossings related to Low-Level Property "log.graph.preserveConnectorsUntilFork"
working tree node and history commands were disabled if head branch, but not "HEAD" was selected in Branches view
when opening the Log for a non-head branch focus is forced to the Graph after a while even if the filter input field already was focused
Move to Trash: improved performance for multiple files
Refresh:
possible false-positive "unchanged" state for files changed immediately after staging
Other Noteworthy Changes:
"Branch | Rebase | Abort" was removed because the more general "Branch | Abort" already covers it
Preferences, low-level properties page: initially shows only modified properties (for easier reset)
Windows: upgraded to Git 2.27

New in SmartGit 20.1.2 (May 7, 2020)

New Features, Improvements:
Commit template: set caret at the end of the first (valid) line (instead of the beginning)
Log, Graph view: set low-level property "log.graph.showMergeCommitsGray" to false to not avoid gray merge commits
Rebase Interactive, Investigate: don't stop after title when shortening message
Search/Filter: set low-level property "fileSearchOrFilter.matchInside" to false to match the file name start
Refresh: set low-level property "nodecache.reflogRoots.followSymlinks" to false to prevent possible "java.nio.file.FileSystemLoopException"
Fixed Bugs:
Blame: didn't distinguish between trailing line ending or not
Branches view: Del key did not invoke Delete command on focused remote
Commit: committing many files created multiple commits
Compare, Index Editor: did not keep posix file mode on save
Files view: "intent-to-add" files showed up as "modified"
Gravatar images: incorrectly sized when switching between display zoom level 100% <-> 200% on the same machine
JIRA integration (cloud instance): didn't re-ask for password in case of HTTP error 403
Linux: launcher script suggested to try SWT_GTK3=0 though GTK2 is not supported any more
Log:
Changes view: changes for "assume unchanged" files were not displayed (as in Working Tree window)
Commit view: missing primary "parent" link for merge commit when "Follow Only First Parent" is selected
Files view: internal error comparing Index with conflicts against commit
Graph view: signed commit symbol was not supported by macOS system font
window could be closed while a command was running
pressing Ctrl+Shift+3 if all files are staged, did not focus the right table in the Files view
Preferences, Colors tab: no editor colors were shown on macOS
Refresh:
internal error if core.excludesfile points to invalid path
internal error if HEAD points to non-local branch
possible internal error related to core.ignoreCase=true on case-sensitive file system (e.g. Linux)
removed but ignored, physically existing file showed up as untracked
Stage:
possible internal error for file names containing special characters
possible error "..System Volume Information"
Windows: possible error "the following file has local modifications"
SSH: using "System SSH" Git was not correctly configured for plink passing invalid arguments ("plink: unknown option "-o"")

New in SmartGit 20.1.1 (Mar 24, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1 (Mar 19, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1 RC 3 (Mar 13, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1 RC 2 (Mar 4, 2020)

New in SmartGit 19.1.7 (Mar 2, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1 RC 1 (Feb 27, 2020)

New in SmartGit 19.1.6 (Jan 14, 2020)

New in SmartGit 20.1 Preview 6 (Dec 13, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1.5 (Dec 5, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1.4 (Oct 2, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.2 Preview 1 (Sep 30, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1.3 (Sep 11, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1.2 (Sep 6, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1.1 (Aug 12, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 (Aug 8, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 RC 4 (Aug 2, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 RC 2 (Jul 4, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 RC1 (Jun 26, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 Preview 8 (Jun 19, 2019)

New in SmartGit 18.2.9 (Jun 19, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 Preview 7 (Jun 3, 2019)

New Features, Improvements:
Branches view:
Copy URL for Remotes
Commit view:
Now also supports merge, cherry-pick, ... messages, commit.message template
Optionally stage all files without confirmation
Git-Flow:
Finish Feature: merge should be non-fast-forward by default
Start Support: allow to specify base commit for support branch
GitHub (and others), Create Pull Request:
Reasonable target default
Use information from latest commit as default title
Works on Graph selection, too (not just branch selection)
Bitbucket Server: low-level property "stash.https.fingerprint" to specify default server fingerprint
Log/Journal: show configured fixup-prefix in light color
Log:
Graph view:
Inlined ref sub menu
Ref context menu: merge also works on ref
Files view:
Directories tree: offer external directory tools
Rename file: also can rename untracked file
Working Tree window:
Commit view:
Added Select from Log
Fixed Bugs:
Git-Flow:
Start Support: did not honor selected base branch
Prune Worktree:
Show error message in case of error
Commit:
Commit.message template not honored anymore
Log:
Graph view: scrollbar had brown background on macOS 10.14 with dark theme
Checkout: can't create new branch for multiple remote branches on selected commit
Cherry-pick (without commit): subsequent Commit dialog may suggest wrong commit message
Possible internal error opening GitHub/Bitbucket/GitLab repository for which no hosting provider is configured
Refresh: possible internal error
Dark theme (Win10): Changes view may get visible (dark) scrollbars, e.g. after changing perspectives
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Commit and others, Select Message from Log: replaced "Fixup!"-prefix checkbox with configurable prefix with low-level property log.useCommitMessage.prefix
Rebase Interactive: disabled auto-squash of fixup! commits, because it offers 3 options to do that (to top/newest commit, neighbor commits, to bottom/ oldest commit)
Stash selection: show information that the index always is stashed
Log: renamed views "Commits" -> "Graph", "Details" -> "Commit"
SSH: shows better error message in case of ECDSA keys
Upgraded to Java 11.0.3

New in SmartGit 18.2.8 (May 21, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 Preview 6 (May 15, 2019)

New Features, Improvements:
Clone:
Preselect default branch if "Fetch all Heads and Tags" is unselected
The 1st previous URLs are shown in recently used order, the remainding ones are sorted by name for easier reading
Details/Commit Message view:
Apply more features of the classic Commit dialog:
If amend is selected, check for modifying pushed commits
Checks for configured name/email
Ability to select JIRA issue as message
Commit single change without confirmation
File name completion: support for renamed files
Log:
Edit Commit Message now also works if Index or Working Tree is selected
Commits/Graph:
Context menu:
Use submenu to group all commands for the clicked ref
Removed general Push, because it did not work on the selected commit
Added Fixup command that takes the commit message and selects the working tree
If Index or Working Tree were clicked, show Commit, Stage/Unstage
Filtering: performance improvements for subsequent filtering by cached commit data
More compact options ("hamburger") menu
Git-Flow:
Toolbar button: Integrate should also be default if we are only behind origin/develop, but not local develop
Modifying or Splitting Commit: Continue button opens Commit dialog for local changes
Log/Journal: Squash Commit did not ignore "!fixup" prefix
Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab: option to open pull request in browser
File Compare, Conflict Solver:
Added _ as word character
External tools: made non-case-sensitive on Windows
Output view: added low-level property "output.view.maxDisplayedLines"
GUI:
Themes: by default switch between light and dark default themes, especially on macOS 10.14 and Linux
Fixed Bugs:
Bitbucket/GitHub/GitLab:
Integration may not work properly if remote URL
Re-fetching pull request might not work
Re-fetching "locally outdated" pull request did nto clear "locally outdated" marker contained port number
Clone dialog: showed duplicate URLs
Commit: possible OOME for large commits (adds)
Details/Commit Message view:
Could not commit into empty repository
Could not commit submodule change
Only untracked files were not detected as committable ("nothing to commit")
Find Action: wrong priority handling
Git-Flow: Finish should be default if feature is ahead of develop
GitLab: Add Comment (Changes view) may fail because it tries to create comment in wrong repository
Split Commit: false-positive "The splitting of commit ... is still in progress" warning when having only untracked files in the working tree
Log:
Branches view:
Bitbucket Server: misleading tooltip "Hosting provider is not configured for the current repository" for refresh button
Changes view:
Did not show expected vs. real EOL
Could not show Index content if repository was empty (invalid HEAD)
Cloning repository did not show up as open (bold)
Commits:
Clicking up-link arrow to Index (on pending merge commit) did not work
- "hand" cursor over links did not show up anymore
Working Tree and Index node always should be next to each other
Gap/flickering updating the "states" panel
Stashes should show up completely, even if "Show Only First Parents" is selected
Repositories:
Possible internal error opening multiple repositories in quick series
SVN "incomplete" state not detected (showing "missing" instead)
GitHub: possible empty "Reply" menu when right-clicking comment
File/subdir log did not remember layout
Open, missing repository: each window activation caused a new error dialog to pop up
Working Tree window:
Hosting providers: incoming pull requests may not be denoted if
Distributed Reviews is enabled for the repository, too
GUI:
Feature Integrate/Finish: "Merge" became pre-selected where "Rebase" should be
- "Default for dark system" theme was outdated
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Memory limitation for helper processes

New in SmartGit 19.1 Preview 5 (Apr 25, 2019)

New Features, Improvements:
Git-Flow: support for AVH edition 1.12.2
support for custom base branch
smart "Integrate Develop" for sub-features with diverged base branches
default to "Integrate" if feature lags behind parent (develop)
log safe diverged states only as "info" (instead of "warning") to the
Output view
Garbage Collector: re-added option for expire-reflogs-now with additional
confirmation because it will delete stashes, too
Edit Last Commit Message has been removed, because Edit Commit Message
already supports it (even for merge commits)
Log:
Commits:
show banner for current rebasing/merging/cherry-pick/... state with
state-specific commands what to do
Abort toolbar button has been removed
Commit toolbar button does not change to "Continue" any more
(but still can be used to continue a rebase)
Details: unified Commit Message view into Details view (if index or
working tree nodes are selected, the commit message can be entered)
with Amend checkbox and Commit button to commit without the dialog
commit button works on index
if no file was staged, optionally all local files get staged upon
request (git add -- .)
Working Tree window:
Commit Message view: with Commit button (see Log/Details above)
Stash Apply: now also works in rebasing state
GUI:
commands that don't influence index or working tree are moved from the
Local to the Branch menu (Bisect, Edit Commit Message, Edit Author,
Squash Commits
Repositories: added Add Group to context menu of group
external tools (Linux): detect more terminal applications
Fixed Bugs:
Log:
Commits:
when rebasing only a slice of commits, "rebase plan" may show too
many false-positive "done" commits
possible internal error trying to open repository in rebasing state
certain degenerated rebasing states don't show up
F2 did not invoke Edit Message
Details:
Gerrit change IDs were detected as possible commit ID
Split Commit: wrong message is suggested after having entered a different
message
Linux: scrolling related hard crash
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=546274
GUI:
Log:
Commits: for a file log, the context menu contains always disabled
commands
toolbar: changing "Show text below icon" did not relayout correctly
Rebase Interactive: if aborted, don't show "succeeded" message

New in SmartGit 18.2.7 (Apr 10, 2019)

New in SmartGit 19.1 Preview 3 (Apr 1, 2019)

Git:
DeepGit:
added "Open SmartGit Log" and "Open SmartGit Root Log" to Navigation
view
Discard: if > 1 file is discarded, show a second confirmation
JIRA/others: detect HTTP->HTTPS redirects and show a reasonable error
Log:
Branches:
Reveal: always asks for local/tracked branch if tracked branches
are not shown
Commits:
optionally show only first parents; expandable on-demand
sorting options for
time,
primary parents first,
merge parents first
for Branch and Mergable coloring text of "non-matching" nodes is
shown gray as for merge commits
Commits and Files: saves and restore states when switching between
multiple open repositories
Files:
Directories:
Copy Name/Path/Relative Path: now also work for a commit
selection
empty untracked directories are only shown if "Show Unchanged" and
"Show Untracked" is selected
opening: immediate loading feedback even for huge repositories
closing checks for running command as working tree window does
Log Graph/Journal: shows email addresses in tooltip
https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/932-
Modify or Split Commit work flow improved:
the Continue option only is shown for no local changes (making
creating commits more explicit)
no second commit is tried to be applied
warns if the commits are not diff-equal to the original commit (e.g.
if something has removed intentionally or forgotten); optionally put
remainder to the index
for each commit operation the original commit's message is suggested
Rebase Interactive, Modify or Split: warn if trying to modify pushed
history
Refresh: shows warning for repositories with many unpacked refs
GitHub: option to create draft pull requests
Changes view: Edit in Index Editor: is now disabled if inapplicable
Output view and dialog:
highlight links https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/336-
default settings: if smartgit.startup.settingsToReplaceFromDefaults is
configured, default yml files are processed specially:
a leading '-' for the key will delete this key from the settings file
for lists:
list items with the key-value "__merge__: delete" will be deleted
from the list
other list items from the default yml file are prepended to the list
only if the list does not yet contain such entries (only the keys
from the default list are used for the comparison)
UI:
tables: low-level property ui.table.sortByMultipleColumns to disable
sorting by multiple columns
Repositories view: low-level property repositories.sortFavoritesFirst to
disable moving favorite repositories before groups
Find Command: full menu item name has higher priority now than "words"
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Blame/Investigate: when invoking "Open Log" with "Existing Window" in
file logs, the commit is not properly revealed
Log:
opening missing repository showed duplicate error dialogs
macOS: blurry graph on HiDPI screens
Preferences:
Hosting Providers: possible internal error
Repositories:
possible internal error invoking Copy ... on invalid repository
themes: graph.merge.text was not honored
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Windows bundles: use JRE 11
repositories-cache.yml has been replaced with a binary file repository-cache
(no need to be editable)

New in SmartGit 18.2.6 (Feb 25, 2019)

New in SmartGit 18.2.5 (Jan 30, 2019)

New in SmartGit 18.2.4 (Jan 16, 2019)

New in SmartGit 18.2.3 (Dec 21, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2.2 (Dec 17, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2.1 (Dec 6, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 (Dec 3, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 RC3 (Nov 27, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 RC2 (Nov 21, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 11 (Nov 9, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 10 (Nov 6, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 9 (Oct 19, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 8 (Oct 5, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 7 (Sep 27, 2018)

New Features, Improvements:
Git:
Commit:
comment lines (starting with #) are shown in gray
message history popup: hide comments lines if possible
disambigued no-name-or-email message
Journal & Log:
unified "is already pushed" detection
remove parenthesis from the displayed author
LFS: experimental display of locks state (requires
pull.queryRemoteLfsLocks to be set to true and
lfs.<remote>.locksverify=true in the .git/config) - see also
https://www.syntevo.com/doc/display/SG/Git-LFS
Log:
Branches view:
context actions needed shortcuts
enforce the HEAD is selected after performing the initial commit
Commits view:
added low-level property log.graph.preserverConnectorsUntilFork
which (if set) might cause some repositories to look better
low-level properties affecting the graph don't require restart
any more
Git-Flow: disallow modification of non-branch commits (as in
Journal)
several commands should work on multiple selected repositories (as
in Working Tree window)
Rebase:
Continue should invoke "git rebase --skip" if necessary
in rebasing state, the Rebase toolbar button visually clashed with
the Abort toolbar button
Refresh: "renamed modified" state (as in Log)
Submodules (Clone, Pull, ...): if selected to initialize new
submodules, this is done recursively unless the low-level property
submoduleUpdate.initializeRepository is set to false
GUI:
Add Repository: now tries to add to the most suitable group (the one
which contains other repositories of this directory)
Changes view: changed "Force Text" to "Force Compare" and allowed to
trigger compare of file considered as too large
Changes/Compare:
select rows by using the line number column
http://smartgit.userecho.com/topics/581-
Repository Settings: shows warning for missing/wrong name/email
moved "Show Working Tree Window"/"Show Log Window" and "New Log
Window"/"New Working Tree Window" to Window menu
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Clone: possible interference with Branches refreshing
GitLab integration: possible "Could not parse date" error
Investigate: possible internal error caused by adding/removing tabs
Log:
Branches view:
for a new (empty) remote the preceding checkbox was shown semi-
selected suggesting that there was something selected inside
Changes view:
didn't refresh for currently selected Working Tree or Index file
scrolled to top after any change
Checkout: suggested to track an already tracked remote branch
Commits view:
merging/rebasing state did not show up if Working Tree and Index
were clean
possible internal error right-clicking
Details view: showed user name as link even if no email was stored
Files view:
Show Changes, Save As and Compare with Working Tree did not work
if 2 commits were selected
Save As might hang for Git-LFS files where blobs were not
present yet in local repository
Compare with Working Tree: showed wrong button texts
View Unchanged option was not enabled for commit selection
Find Object: did not work in bare repository
Refresh: if repository became temporarily invalid, Branches state
and thus graph became lost
Repositories:
opening missing repository did not properly detected missing
state
opening a repository which already was open in a Working Tree
window did not work
Squashing commits rewinded 1 commit too far
possible internal error related to shallow clones
possible internal errors related to partly unshallowed repositories
Refresh:
after renaming a file a second time, untracked artifact remained
until performing a clean refresh
macOS: failed to pick up directory renames
Show Changes: could not be opened for a removed file
GUI:
Compare:
internal error replacing text under certain conditions
line number gutter size did not change if more lines were added
Commit file name completion: performance problem for large number of
files
Find Command/Object: added workaround for anti-aliasing bug
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=537417
Index Editor/Conflict Solver: inline changes did not correctly show
up for left-middle blocks
Linux: could not override JRE (using ~/.smartgit/smartgit.vmoptions
file) because of bundled JRE

New in SmartGit 18.1.5 (Sep 25, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 6 (Sep 5, 2018)

New Features, Improvements:
Git:
Clone: if there is an URL in the clipboard, pre-select entire existing text
in URL text field
Files table/view: support path-separator for the Filter
Log:
Commit vs. Index compare by selecting Index node and a commit node
Refresh:
faster refreshing of pending changes when switching between repositories
submodule refresh should update parent repository state, too
working tree state refresh performance improvements
Repositories: Open Repository in New Window should be applicable to
multiple repositories
Statusbar layout unified with main window
Low-level property "log.graph.forceShowAuthorIfNotEqualCommitter"
Repository, Settings: better understandable submodule Push options
Setup: ask which kind of view (working tree view vs. Log view) user prefers
Submodule, Deinit: should be available on "modified" submodules, too
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Log:
Commits view:
crash when invoking Reveal Working Tree without having a repository
selected in Repositories view
revealing previous commit should not start heavy-weight query if commit
is already present in the graph
Files view: Log on submodule with New Window option selected failed to
properly select submodule node in Repositories view
Refresh:
may have failed to detect merge/cherry-pick/revert/rebase/bisecting
state
possible hang after trying to open broken repository
possibly outdated working tree state, caused by concurrent refreshes
Repositories view:
internal error when trying to remove missing repository
outgoing commits marker on submodules should show up, regardless of
which node is currently selected in the tree
when "Allow to open multiple Log windows for the same repository" is
selected in Preferences, it should be possible to open an already opened
repository from the Repositories view context menu
Squash: false-positive warning about pushed commits for repositories
which don't have remotes
SVN: background clone did not start
Repository|Settings should not be enabled for closed repositories
GUI:
Tree (macOS): right-clicking while a popup menu already is showing was
showing empty popup menu

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 4 (Aug 10, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 3 (Aug 1, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 2 (Jul 24, 2018)

New Features, Improvements
Git:
Log:
added Find Object
Branches: if "Include Tracked Remote Branches", HEAD is selected, HEAD is
pointing at a tracking branch, its tracked branch also is shown
Commit: preselects Staged files (as working tree window does)
Files:
"Related Path" column as optional alternative for "Name" and "Relative
Directory" columns
switches automatically to Working Tree/Index in case of detected
local changes
Ctrl+F jumps to the Commits or Files filter depending on the focused
control
Repositories: remembers submodule-expanded state
Refresh: performance improvements in case of merging state and many refs
SVN:
Background fetch: support for config option
svn-remote.<id>.smartgitBackgroundFetch=false
Bitbucket:
support left/right Changes view comments
low-level property to configure per-page limit
GitLab: enhanced integration (merge requests and comments, OAuth)
GUI:
most options of the Changes menu have been moved to the 3-stripe menu of the
Changes view
Journal: if graph column is too narrow to show all, a tooltip shows the
message
some low-level properties now can be applies without the need to restart
Fixed Bugs
Git:
Commit: if in cherry-pick mode, amend was enabled though not supported
internal error if having Log as default window and multiple repositories were
open on previous exit
Log
Background fetch of open repository did not work
Changes view: continued to show file even if non has been selected any more
Coloring: the last coloring was not remembered
Drag and drop: possible internal error
internal error opening repositories with "/." in their path
possible performance problem
drag and drop: reordering commits brought window to front
Refresh: working tree did not refresh after external merge
Repositories: Open Repository command were enabled for multiple
repositories or groups
Welcome dialog allowed to open multiple repositories
GUI:
new dock tabs: resize problems if Comments and Files were tabs in the same
tab folder
CentOS 6: SWT crash because of forced GTK3
Other Noteworthy Changes
shortcuts Ctrl+Up/Down had to be replaced by Alt+Up/Down because it conflicted
with default table/tree selection
some view-specific shortcuts are configurable in Edit | Customize but can't be
found in the main menu

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 1 (Jul 5, 2018)

Git
Log:
support for working tree and index operations
working tree and index can be show as virtual nodes attached to the HEAD
commit or indepdent in the Files view
allows to switch repositories, submodules
can be used as main window (preferences option)
Journal-like commands to rewrite commits (change order by drag and drop,
squash, change commit message)
Files view: filtering similar to working tree window
Push now pushes the current branch (HEAD) independent of the commit
selection - similar to working tree window
improved memory consumption for filtering
Reveal a commit resets filter, if necessary
Compare 2 Files: smarter detection of what to compare, e.g. if one
extracted a method to a new class
Journal/Log Graph:
option for showing author in each line, even if equal
more system property options for background coloring
Move & Squash by drag and drop supports "fixup! " prefix
different column configuration for Log and Journal
Git-LFS: added Install, Track, Lock and Unlock commands
Rebase Interactive: auto-squash to move and squash equally named commits
set repository depth, e.g. to reduce the disk space on seldom changed
submodules
Branches view: indicate refs pointing to same commit as HEAD
JIRA, Resolve: added system property jira.workInProgressMarkers
Find Object:
finds repository groups
finds repositories in most recently used order
Copy Relative Path: added system property copyRelativePath.useBackslash to
configure whether / or should be used
Push to Gerrit: added system property ui.showPushToGerritInMenu that defines
whether Push to Gerrit will be shown in menu and can be added to toolbar
Commit: if it fails because of missing user name or email, the Repository
Settings are opened
Compare and others:
improved Apply Selection
inner-line change detection improved when splitting adding/trailing
additions/removals
Proxy settings are remembered, even if disabled
GUI:
large tooltips, e.g. in Branches view, became less annyoing - they show up
small by default and need a F1 press to fully show up
Linux: improved detection of zoom factor
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Log:
stash nodes showed the original commit message, not the stash comment
Rebase Interactive:
Git had problems on Windows if both, the SmartGit installation directory
and the repository, contained spaces in the path
failed for worktree repository for changed messages
Branches view: F2 on a remote triggered the Rename Stash command
Clean Working Tree was enabled for closed repositories
Stage/Commit: possible error "pathspec '...' is beyond a symbolic link"
Stash Selection: was enabled for submodules though not working
Clone and other commands: duplicate error message in case of failure
http(s) authentication: possible problems with non-ASCII characters in user
name or passwords
SSH:
using JSCH could cause endless hang
possible out-of-memory errors
authentication errors
GitHub/BitBucket: confusion when having multiple remotes
GUI:
macOS: configuring accelerators if they already were used in the window-less
menu bar
perspectives: resized controls were not remembered/restored correctly under
certain conditions
Other Noteworthy Changes:
Linux package ships with bundled Git
changed default SSH implementation from SSHJ to JSCH
some default shortcuts in View and Window menus have been changed to become
similar in working tree window and log window
changed default shortcuts for Push/Pull and Find Action/Find Object so the
latter can use the more common Ctrl+P
no tray icon by default (confused to much users)

New in SmartGit 18.1.3 (Jun 11, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1.2 (May 16, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1.1 (Apr 26, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1.0 (Apr 10, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12101 RC 3 (Apr 5, 2018)

New in SmartGit 17.1.6 Build 11221 (Mar 29, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12099 RC 2 (Mar 28, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12090 RC 1 (Mar 21, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12086 Preview 7 (Mar 14, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12073 Preview 6 (Feb 27, 2018)

Git:
Bisect commands: reset submodules
Commit dialog: cursor-up on empty message gets the HEAD commit message
<https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/571->
Files view: ability to toogle between (current) Mixed, Index and
Working Tree display
<https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/77->
Ignore:
support for adding pattern to repository-only .git/info/exclude
<https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/301->
Reveal Ignore File has been turned into Edit Ignore File
Journal: keep HEAD commit selected if it was selected before a refresh
Log:
Details: clicking commit ID will navigate to the found commit
Filter:
better responsiveness
limited to prevent memory overflow
Log, Journal: detect URLs and turn them into links
<https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/86->
Output: display more error details, if available
Pull/Push/other remote commands: credentials are not dismissed in case of
(temporary) 500 internal server error
Pull/Sync: display more details on post-operation processing in status bar
Push To: shows branch name to push
Push to Gerrit: offer to push to master
Repository | Edit Git Config: ability to edit .git/config and ~/.gitconfig
Refresh:
improved .gitignore processing performance
<https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/630->
"inaccessible" state if working tree content can't be read, e.g. due to
exclusive file system locks
Reset (Hard), other commands: allow to proceed even if auto-stashing is not
possible
Revert:
update submodules
use Git's default message
Sync: shows a dismissible confirmation dialog to prevent invoking it by
accident
Hg:
support for Mercurial 4.5
Compare and others:
improved shifting resulting in smaller change blocks
Find and Replace dialog: regular expression can now be used in the replace
string, too
GUI:
Repository | Add Group
Updater: shows progress in taskbar icon
SSH: by configuring 'smartgit.ssh.impl' you can select between sshj, jsch and
trilead as used SSH client for Git or Hg (SVN always uses trilead)
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Background Refresh (Remote): false-positive incoming marker (green arrow)
might remain
Branches: Reset always used tracked branch as target
Cherry-Pick/Revert: in no-commit mode, cumulated commit message get lost
Conflict Solver: if option "Swap on Rebase" is selected in the preferences,
files are not swapped correctly
DeepGit/Investigate: possible internal error
External tools: "Applies To"-file filter was ignored if the tool used
"${selectionFile}"
Git-Flow: several errors related to "system Git-Flow"
Log:
Select Parent Commit: possible internal error if parent is not yet loaded
internal error invoking graph context menu on bare repository log
for Git-Flow-enabled repository possible unexpected connector column change
problems dragging multiple commits
might not refresh for worktree repositories
various commands: were not available on commits containing meta ref
Log/Journal:
right-clicking link did not show link-context menu any more
Ctrl+C did not copy any more
various commands: possible internal error related to bad .git/config files
GUI:
External Tools, "Select which refs"-dialog: needed relayout after swapping
Linux/GTK2:
Log, Changes view: internal error painting comments
Log, Journal:
reimplemented whole keyboard and mouse selection
right-clicking a different revision while a context menu already was
displayed sometimes did not show a new context menu
ref-popup was broken
Switching perspectives lost focus control
possible resource leak related to context menus

New in SmartGit 17.1.5 Build 11217 (Feb 21, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12057 Preview 5 (Feb 8, 2018)

New in SmartGit 17.1.4 Build 11213 (Jan 30, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12048 Preview 4 (Jan 24, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12037 Preview 3 (Jan 8, 2018)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12027 Preview 2 (Dec 22, 2017)

New in SmartGit 18.1 Build 12020 Preview 1 (Dec 12, 2017)

New Features, Improvements
Journal and Log Graph:
completely new implementation
better performance
improved layout
as much text from the message is shown as fits into the available space
show either author or committer
show either alternating rows or columns
Git:
Background poll/fetch: periods are configurable in the preferences
Branches view:
Merge also supports merging from tags
Remote Properties dialog: only checks connection if URL has been changed
Reset: can be used HEAD to the selected ref or HEAD to its tracking branch
Commit: selecting "Amend" asks user if message is not empty
Fetch all: continues to fetch from other remotes if one fails
Interactive rebase: support for rebase.autoSquash=true to automatically
squash commits using "fixup!" or "squash!" commit message prefixes
Journal: shows commits also for branches tracking a local branch
Log:
Commits view:
default coloring depends on selected refs and uses colored checkboxes
in the Branches view as legend (HEAD: black, some selected refs: several
colors, too much selected refs: blue, merged selected refs: brown,
others: gray; colors of selected refs follow primary parent)
option to show/hide non-selected refs
for file logs, refs pointing to the nearest child commits are shown
different than refs pointing directly to the commit
Details view:
new category "on branches" for all refs where the commit is reachable
from the primary parents
Push To dialog: replaces invalid ref characters like in other dialogs
Repository Search: ignores now directories with empty .git directory
Hg:
Commit: selecting "Amend" asks user if message is not empty
Log:
added Revert command
SSH:
SSHJ is used by default supporting more modern SSH servers and is faster
JSch is used if smartgit.ssh.useSshj=false
GUI:
Autoupdate on startup: shows progress when fetching (large) files
Changes views, Compare: separate "Remember as Default" menu item
Enter should do same as double-click on selected table rows
Files table should not show pink if untracked files are hidden and Commit
option "Suggest to add untracked files" is not selected
system independent light theme
table columns use ownerdraw now to avoid problems with theming
Repositories view: show "Move To" submenu only for selected repositories
work-around for 0x00 settings files after hard crash using backup files in the
new .backup directory (which is filled after successful load and used if
loading the normal settings failed)
Fixed Bugs
Git:
Commit: incorrect forced-push check
Git-Flow, Finish Feature: possible phantom "fatal: Working tree contains
unstaged changes"
Ignore: used platform line-ending when modifying .gitignore file (instead of
keeping the existing line-ending)
Journal:
Squash was enabled even for non-continues commits
File compare:
bad repaint performance for large amount of (white)space drawing
no syntax coloring was used if file extension was configured as, e.g.,
*.html.erb
Other Noteworthy Changes
Windows bundles:
use 64-bit Java and Git
smartgit.exe and smartgitc.exe are 64-bit
use smartgit32.exe and smartgitc32.exe as fall-back for 32-bit systems
support for Java 9

New in SmartGit 17.1.3 Build 11198 (Dec 6, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1.2 Build 11190 (Nov 14, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1.1 Build 11182 (Oct 26, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1.0 Build 11170 (Oct 12, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11168 RC 4 (Oct 11, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11165 RC 3 (Oct 6, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11161 RC 2 (Oct 3, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11158 RC 1 (Sep 25, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11149 Preview 17 (Sep 20, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11143 Preview 15 (Sep 10, 2017)

NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
Git:
Changes: improved performance
Distributed Review addon: template for Pull Request Integration configurable
External tools: ${repositoryRootPath} is now also supported for closed repositories
Files view:
context menu: if a submodule is selected, inappropriate menu items are not shown any more
Investigate: made darkthemecapable
Log:
Details: made gravatar image clickable to see large image in browser
Push To dialog (for refs): removed "Force" option if modifying pushed commits is disabled in preferences
Refresh:
ignores missing or bad refs
show notification about possible performance problems if much refs were detected
the regular expressions to limit the number of loaded tags/remote branches is now configurable in the repository's .git/config (see notificaton)
Refresh (after command execution): more responsive if Branches view is still updating
Stash Selection: support for untracked files
Submodule, Update: "And initialize new submodules" option recurses now by default, unless smartgit.submoduleUpdate.initializeRepository=true
GUI:
own toolbar implementation:
popup buttons will show the popup on mouserelease or longclick, instead of on mousedown
buttons with additional popup menu will only show the popup on long
click if the option smartgit.toolbar.longClickPopupOnly is set true
Windows, OS X bundles: upgraded Git to version 2.14.1
FIXED BUGS:
Git:
Branches: Set Tracked Branch could suggest wrong branch
Changes: changed lineendings were shown for changed submodule
Commit: comparing added file in staged mode showed working tree changes
Log:
Delete was enabled if no branch or tag was selected
Refresh problem after replacing entire repository ("can't find commit")
merge/rebase/cherrypick failed with serious error for mild errors like conflicts now with a warning
SVN:
Refresh: internal error when opening SVN clone with submodules
Delete: could not delete dangling link (Linux)
GUI:
Changes: fixed possible internal error switching from compact to normal display
F2 in the Files view triggered rename stash instead of rename file
Preferences: Add/Edit external tool dialog rejected invalid but disabled confirmation message
Windows 10: table header was hardly distinguishable from normal rows

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11134 Preview 14 (Aug 31, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11119 Preview 13 (Aug 21, 2017)

NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
Git:
Cleanup renamed to "Run Garbage Collector"
Commit: warning "Do you want to commit and push just a subset of all changes" can be hidden
Conflict Solver: added preferences options to swap "ours" and "theirs" in case of rebase conflicts
Ignore:
works on newly removed files, too
works on tracked files, too, by removing them
Log:
drag and drop operations show a popup menu at the drop location instead of a dialog
2 toolbar buttons for Log Repository and Log Selection, each having the other in the popup menu
Pull: added Fetch and Fetch More commands as popup menu items
Push: toolbar button with Push-To in popup menu
Refresh:
performance improvements (up to 30% faster were reported)
added preferences option to inspect EOLs for modified files (former system property "smartgit.refresh.inspectEOLs")
Stash: ability to rename (only the stash, not the created commits!)
Hg:
2 toolbar buttons for Log Repository and Log Selection, each having the other in the popup menu
SVN:
smartgit.svn.authorsfile uses UTF-8 encoding now
GUI:
Commit Message input field: prevent entering/pasting 0x00 characters
verbose date: added option in the preferences to disable the "Yesterday" display
own toolbar implemenation:
smaller area to trigger popup (means larger area for triggering the normal command), because the popup also can be activated by click and hold
FIXED BUGS:
Git:
Branches: renamed stash did not show new name (stash commit still show the original names because the stash is not recreated but just renamed)
Changes: showed "EOL: Unix" on Windows for HEAD vs. Index comparison
Commit: newly check for set user name and email did not consider .git/config
Log:
Checkout: fixed warning trying to check out origin/foo if foo was *behind* origin/foo
Output: could not be cleared completely manually
Pull: "Fetch merge type no specified" error
Refresh:
possible phantom modifications when having "ident" attribute set
possible duplicate refreshing after executed commands
Startup: "--investigate" opened annotate instead of DeepGit if SmartGit already was running
GUI:
Compare:
Apply Selection was often not predictable
possible invalid inner-line diff
Clone wizard: the remote branch combobox could increase the dialog's with
double-clicking renamed file did not open file compare
Syntax coloring (Windows): file extension case did matter
own toolbar implementation:
different spaces between icon/text and popup arrow
OTHER CHANGES:
renamed "line separators" to "line-endings" because the latter seems more commonly used
updated SWT to version 4.811

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11103 Preview 12 (Aug 3, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.0.5 Build 10143 (Aug 1, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11094 Preview 11 (Jul 21, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11084 Preview 10 (Jul 10, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11073 Preview 9 (Jun 16, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.0.4 Build 10132 (May 18, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11064 Preview 8 (May 18, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11051 Preview 7 (Apr 25, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11040 Preview 6 (Mar 31, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.0.3 Build 10122 (Mar 22, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11029 Preview 5 (Mar 15, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11027 Preview 4 (Mar 9, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11023 Preview 3 (Feb 24, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11019 Preview 2 (Feb 16, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.0.2 Build 10105 (Feb 9, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Build 11010 Preview 1 (Jan 30, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17.0.1 Build 10100 (Jan 27, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17 Build 10090 (Jan 17, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17 Build 10088 RC 3 (Jan 13, 2017)

New in SmartGit 8.0.4 Build 8166 (Jan 11, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17 Build 10081 RC 2 (Jan 4, 2017)

New in SmartGit 17 Build 10078 RC 1 (Dec 21, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.1 Build 9065 Preview 5 (Dec 7, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.1 Build 9047 Preview 4 (Nov 18, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.1 Build 9036 Preview 3 (Oct 25, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.0.3 Build 8156 (Oct 12, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.1 Build 9024 Preview 2 (Oct 6, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.0.2 Build 8150 (Sep 30, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.0.1 Build 8142 (Sep 12, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8.1 Build 9014 Preview 1 (Sep 9, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8 Build 8134 RC 3 (Aug 30, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8 Build 8131 RC 2 (Aug 23, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8 Build 8123 RC 1 (Aug 8, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1.4 Build 6127 (Aug 2, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8 Build 8117 Preview 14 (Jul 28, 2016)

New in SmartGit 8 Build 8111 Preview 13 (Jul 28, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7101 Preview 12 (Jul 12, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7090 Preview 11 (Jun 30, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7087 Preview 10 (Jun 27, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7077 Preview 9 (Jun 23, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7070 Preview 8 (Jun 6, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7063 Preview 7 (May 31, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7055 Preview 6 (May 12, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7049 Preview 5 (Apr 29, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1.3 Build 6119 (Apr 25, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7036 Preview 4 (Apr 18, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7027 Preview 3 (Mar 30, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7005 Preview 2 (Mar 11, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1.2 Build 6112 (Mar 11, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Build 7005 Preview 1 (Feb 18, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1.1 Build 6104 (Feb 17, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1.0 Build 6097 (Feb 8, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6096 RC 3 (Feb 5, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6094 RC 2 (Feb 1, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.0.5 Build 5203 (Jan 25, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6090 RC 1 (Jan 25, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6088 Preview 12 (Jan 21, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6083 Preview 11 (Jan 18, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6078 Preview 10 (Jan 14, 2016)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6068 Preview 9 (Dec 15, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.0.4 Build 5197 (Dec 1, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6056 Preview 8 (Nov 30, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6039 Preview 6 (Nov 6, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6034 Preview 5 (Oct 30, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6024 Preview 4 (Oct 8, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Build 6021 Preview 3 (Oct 1, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Preview 2 (Oct 1, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.1 Preview 1 (Oct 1, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.0.3 Build 5185 (Sep 25, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.0.2 Build 5171 (Sep 10, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7.0.1 Build 5166 (Sep 9, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 RC 3 Build 5161 (Sep 1, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 RC 2 Build 5158 (Aug 27, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 RC 1 Build 5148 (Aug 18, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 14 Build 5144 (Aug 11, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 13 Build 5133 (Jul 30, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 12 Build 5126 (Jul 15, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 11 Build 5117 (Jul 11, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.9 Build 4208 (Jun 19, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 10 Build 5104 (Jun 19, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 9 Build 5097 (Jun 11, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 8 Build 5081 (May 20, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 7 Build 5075 (May 18, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.8 Build 4204 (May 13, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 6 Build 5066 (Apr 30, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 5 Build 5040 (Apr 17, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.7 Build 4202 (Apr 11, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.7 (Apr 8, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 4 (Mar 23, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 3 (Mar 9, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 2 (Feb 19, 2015)

New in SmartGit 7 Preview 1 (Feb 17, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.6 (Feb 12, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.5 (Jan 20, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.4 (Jan 12, 2015)

New in SmartGit 6.5.3 (Dec 20, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5.2 (Dec 11, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5.1 (Nov 19, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5.0 (Nov 14, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 RC 4 (Nov 11, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.8 (Nov 11, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 RC 3 (Nov 7, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 RC 2 (Nov 5, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 RC 1 (Oct 29, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 8 (Oct 17, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 7 (Oct 13, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.7 (Oct 7, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 6 (Oct 6, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 5 (Oct 1, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 4 (Sep 25, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 3 (Sep 19, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 2 (Sep 12, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 1 (Sep 10, 2014)

New Features, Improvements:
support for automatically updating the installed bundle, even to update to new major versions - requests admin privileges if necessary
improved memory consumption behavior
new way to define VM options, e.g. to change memory settings, on Linux (~/.smartgit/smartgit.vmoptions) and OS X (~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/smartgit.vmoptions)
Git:
Add Tag: made clear that creating an annotated tag when providing a message
Background Refresh:
"Fetch open repositories" is now orthogonal to "Fetch closed repositories" instead of sub-option
should not run while Git is processing a command outside SmartGit
skip if up-to-date according to ls-remote information
if configured to not add untracked files on commit, untracked files will not cause the background refresh to show up as local changes
Blame: shows file path if it had been renamed/move in history
Branches:
Checkout remote branch: offers to switch to local branch that already tracks the selected remote branch
Configure on a remote: replaces Edit URL, but also adds options to disable background operations
Tags: ability to checkout and open log
Stashs: ability to open log
Checkout: removed --quiet flag to support post-checkout hooks
Cherry-pick: support for -x option
Conflict Solver:
don't got to next change automatically when applying to conflict block
offer to stage as "deleted" if resulting file is empty
Distributed Review:
Log shows only the most recent pull request head; obsolete heads can be toggled from the Details view
External tools:
support for refs/commits, optional confirmation
default external tools for
creating and applying patches,
fast-forward merge to tracked, non-checked out branches
merge changes from one branch to another without checking out (requires Python3 to be installed)
ability to toggle executable bit (Windows)
are invoked in repository root where possible
Log:
ability to filter by file names/file content
Cherry-Pick and others: when selecting a merge commit, show more information about the parents
Review: Path column includes line number of comment
for 2 selected commits, the Changes view now shows the left and right SHA
improved responsiveness while (long-running) refresh is in progress
Files: submodules have a different icon
Move/Rename commands
Pushable Commits: Edit Commit Message preserves message now in case of failure
Refresh: possible reasons for bad performances (e.g. repository located on symlinked directory) are reported
Hg:
Backout support (equivalent of git revert)
Shelves: use "shelve" instead of "hgshelve" extension
Log:
add context menu to Files table
SVN:
Clone: supports cloning trunk/branches/tags in combination with minimum revision
Compare:
tries to detect ("guess") UTF-8 encoding from content
improved algorithm to improve results for more complex file changes
Setup:
detection of msysgit installation from its registry items
GUI:
Repository, Open in New Window: ability to invoke for repository opened in current window
option for CamelCase (smart uppercase) search
reworked accelerators, e.g. a menu item with Del accelerator will not be invoked when a text field is focused that handles the Del key
Notifications: buttons to show previous/next notification
optionally ask for master password on application startup
table: if one item has been removed, the next row is selected automatically
Fixed Bugs:
Blame:
Log did not work on dead file
Built-in SSH client: possible internal error when trying to use a defect private key
if Git executable was incorrectly configured, the preferences were not opened automatical
assume-unchanged files were not displayed when View|Unchanged Files was selected
Cherry-Pick and other dialogs: command buttons had no mnemonic
Distributed Review:
performance problem fixed (Push, Sync)
if integrating a pull request failed, aborting the rebase left the working tree with a checkout commit instead of a branch
External tools: PATH was not configured correctly to contain the Git/Hg executable directory when showing command output
Notifications: were not shown when they occurred while a windows was minimized and had been restored
Rebase: did not update progress bar
Repositories: when cloning a new repository, "missing" was displayed
SVN: "snapshot" submodules were not updated in case of URL mismatch

New in SmartGit 6.0.6 (Aug 27, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.5 (Jul 28, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.4 (Jul 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.3 (Jun 17, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.2 (Jun 6, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.1 (Jun 2, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6.0.0 (May 28, 2014)

New in SmartGit 5.0.10 (May 27, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 RC 3 (May 23, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 RC 2 (May 16, 2014)

NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
Background Fetch: if Fetch is configured, repositories should still be polled every 5 minutes (instead of just every hour)
Branches: tooltip for annotated tags should display tagger's name and email in one line, as for author and committer
Changes: after staging all changes, view should automatically switch from Index-WorkingTree to HEAD-Index
Preferences: option to disable sending of stripped down stacktraces
Resolve: in case of rebase, "ours" and "theirs" should be swapped the same way as for the Conflict Solver
Starting a new instance should reopen last repository as double-clicking the tray icon does
FIXED BUGS:
Refresh: possible "ambiguous argument 'HEAD': both revision and filename" error
Add Tag: annotated tags should be written with "UTF-8" encoding instead of ANSI
Branches:
possible internal error related to \r in tag messages
Remotes|Delete: possible assertion trying to delete remote
Git-Flow:
after configuring Git-Flow, it did not offer any Git-Flow command until manually refreshing
possible internal error on Start Feature
Shutdown: possible internal error
Notifications: couldn't be opened when clicking (Ubuntu 12.04)
Pull multiple repositories: submodules were not reset as for pulling just a single repository
Rebase: interactive Rebase couldn't be continued
Refresh/various commands: possible internal error related to invalid ref-names
Repositories: Move Into Group should not be available for top-level repositories
Refresh:
internal error if repository contains file with \r in its name
possible internal error after repository has been removed/became invalid immediately before
(Windows, Mac): sometimes failed to update file states after invoking a command
Review:
Initialize: "Initialize Remote" option should be available even if a remote has smartGitID set in .git/config, but still missing refs/meta/smartgit/review
safer file structure
GitHub:
possible internal error related to initial refresh (from server)
refresh did not work after adding a comment
Submodule:
Initialize: internal error if .gitmodules does not contain URL for submodule
Unregister: failed with "Please, stage your changes to .gitmodules or stash them to proceed"

New in SmartGit 6 RC 1 (May 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 9 (May 2, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 8 (Apr 30, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 7 (Apr 18, 2014)

New in SmartGit 5.0.9 (Apr 9, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 6 (Apr 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 5 (Apr 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 4 (Apr 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 3 (Apr 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 2 (Apr 8, 2014)

New in SmartGit 6 preview 1 (Apr 8, 2014)

New Features, Improvements:
completely reworked repository management:
no more "projects", only named repositories
repositories can be organized in groups (one level)
all repositories and groups are sorted by name, groups before repositories
"favorite" projects are sorted on before groups
drag-and-drop to move repositories to other or out of groups
drag-and-drop to add repositories
open repositories will be reopened automatically on restart
Welcome dialog maintains recently used repositories list (including all
favorite repositories)
repositories indicate local changes, incoming and outgoing changes
Git:
Pull/Fetch
works on closed repositories, too
ability to pull from all remotes
Log works on closed repositories, too
background Refresh/Fetch for favorite repositories
distributed Code Review feature (no need for GitHub, paid add-on)
Pull request support
ability to comment branches
ability to comment lines in text files
Markdown support for GitHub support and Code Review feature
Branches
deleting a tracking branch suggests to delete tracked branch, too
denotes GitHub pull requests
Outgoing view
interactive rebase support for auto-stash/auto-apply
Log
Details view improved
Branches|Reveal: does not selects, just reveals commit
improved drag and drop autoscroll speed
Changes: shows line number in status bar
Refresh: ignored, versioned directories are scanned (so contained ignored
files can be shown)
Reset: warning if local or staged changes would be overwritten
Submodules are shown in files table (SHA ID is shown in Changes view)
Edit|Copy menu items work on multiple selected files, directories or
repositories
Merge: uses Git's commit messages by default; to get the "old" shorter
easier readable messages, add following line to smartgit.properties
smartgit.core.merge.shortCommitMessage = true
Switch has been renamed to Checkout
Compare:
separate coloring and view option for trailing whitespace
highlighting for current line
stream-lined setup wizard, e.g. it searches for repositories
Windows: better looking disabled toolbar buttons
launching a browser (e.g. by clicking a link) keeps GUI responsive
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Log:
GitHub comments were visible though disabled in the preferences
Clone or Rebase might fails if special refs were involved
Push: possible internal error clicking the Push toolbar button very quickly
custom HOME environment variable is not overwritten when launching the Git executable
file/directory input fields: sorting was unexpected, e.g. "foo-5/" before "foo"

New in SmartGit 5.0.8 (Mar 13, 2014)

New in SmartGit 5.0.7.1 (Feb 24, 2014)

New in SmartGit 5.0.7 (Feb 20, 2014)

New in SmartGit 5.0.6 (Jan 17, 2014)

New Features, Improvements:
GitHub:
in case of multiple github.com accounts, the matching one based on the
account is used
merge option to just close a pull request (because it has been manually
merged)
support for pull request "header" comments
Pull (SVN): shows remote selection dialog and honors tracked remote, as it's
done in case of multiple Git remotes
Fixed Bugs:
Git:
Add Branch: automatic stash did not work when trying to overwrite
existing branch
Commit: empty merge commit can't be committed when Files view is focussed
Git-Flow:
cannot be switched off if configured remote != "origin"
possible confusion in case of multiple remotes
GitHub:
merge did not create virtual pull request commits
fetching pull request might fail with "Could not determine remote entry
for pull request anchor"
local pull request refs should be composed from number (instead of
internal id)
Log:
Compare with Local:
was disabled when having the first commit selected
in the occurring compare window the wrong file name is shown for the
Working Tree
did not open if HEAD was invalid (e.g. after an orphan checkout)
possible internal error in case of invalid HEADs
Comments table rows might become too large
Git-Flow: "develop" was not layed out in the first column only
Refresh: possible internal error related to invalid HEAD
Project|Repository Settings: was disabled for missing roots
Hg:
Log: internal error having a virtual merge commit selected
don't modify HOME on Windows
did not check \hgrc.d\Paths.rc before adding
"web.cacerts" config option
SVN:
Clone/Pull: possible internal error related to symlink handling
Branches view:
local branches should be able to get SVN as well as Git remote tracked
branch
remote branches referring to a Git remote were still displayed below the
SVN remote
Log, Merge: did not offer to create Merge commit
Pull: "can't pull into SVN clone" with multiple remotes
Push: possible false-positive 'force' warning when using an additional Git
remote
various commands:
SVN-related warnings for Git remote tracking branches
possible confusion when working with additional Git remotes

New in SmartGit 5.0.5 (Dec 20, 2013)

New in SmartGit 5.0.4 (Dec 17, 2013)

New in SmartGit 5.0.3 (Nov 29, 2013)

New in SmartGit 5.0.2 (Nov 20, 2013)

New in SmartGit 5.0.1 (Nov 7, 2013)

New in SmartGit 5.0.0 (Nov 5, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6.5 (Oct 22, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6.4 (Oct 2, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6.3 (Sep 2, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6.2 (Aug 8, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6.1 (Jul 16, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 (Jul 4, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 RC 4 (Jul 4, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 RC 3 (Jul 4, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 RC 2 (Jul 4, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5.6 (Jun 27, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 RC 1 (Jun 20, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5.5 (Jun 19, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 Preview 2 (Jun 13, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.6 Preview 1 (Jun 7, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5.4 (May 29, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5.3 (May 17, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5.2 (May 3, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5.1 (Apr 29, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5 RC 3 (Apr 25, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5 RC 2 (Apr 23, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5 RC 1 (Apr 18, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5 Preview 4 (Apr 12, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5 Preview 3 (Apr 8, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.5 Preview 2 (Apr 2, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0.5 (Apr 2, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0.4 (Mar 7, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0.3 (Feb 14, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0.2a (Feb 14, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0.2 (Feb 6, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0.1 (Jan 25, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0 (Jan 23, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0 RC 2 (Jan 23, 2013)

New in SmartGit 4.0 RC 1 (Jan 23, 2013)

New in SmartGit 3.0.11 (Nov 30, 2012)

New in SmartGit 3.0.10 (Sep 22, 2012)

New in SmartGit 3.0.9 (Aug 9, 2012)

New in SmartGit 3.0.8 (Jul 30, 2012)

New in SmartGit 3.0.7 (Jun 27, 2012)

New in SmartGit 3.0.6 (Jun 16, 2012)

New in SmartGit 3.0.5 (May 28, 2012)

New and Improved Features:
Branch Manager: the hiding of seperate entries for tracked remote branches can be disabled by setting smartgit.git.hideTrackedRemoteBranches=false (in smartgit.properties)
Log: closing the Commits tool window is not prevented
Submodule handling: system property "smartgit.submoduleUpdate.useGit" introduced which will invoke "git submodule update" as part of SmartGit's submodule-updating-procedure; invoking this command is e.g. necessary to honor "submodule.$name.update" in .git/config
various commands: in case of failure, the error dialog is shown immediately and the refresh triggered at the same time
Fixed Bugs:
Branch Manager (SVN): certain remote branches were not displayed
Compare: internal error quickly performing take-block actions
Commit:
could not commit files with leading minus in name, e.g. "- foo.txt"
SVN: when committing from cherry-picking state, untracked files were shown as being included into the commit
Conflict Solver: internal error deleting lines
Edit Last Commit Message (SVN): cleared the cherry-pick meta information
few GUI-related internal errors, e.g. when closing a window while commands were still running
http-protocol: in case of authentication failure, password was not invalidated
Log, Cherry-Pick (SVN): irritating dialogs when cherry-picking unpushed commits
Log, Details tool window: scrolling by clicking the up/down arrows on the scrollbar was very slow
Log in dialogs, e.g. Merge: internal error invoking Copy if multiple lines were selected
Pushable Commits: were not updated correctly after having pushed outside SmartGit
Refresh:
possible internal error for bad encodings in file names in .git/index
repositories with missing core.repositoryformatversion could not be scanned
Windows: .gitignore and .gitattributes were not read with UTF-8 for msysgit >=1.7.10
Windows: files were displayed as modified if core.filemode=true
SVN: problems with tags or branches ending with a period
tables: toggling checkbox columns using space bar did not inform listener