A new preview build of SmartGit 25.1 is available for download.

New Features, Improvements

  • Blame, Investigate: honors configured text file encoding
  • Standard window:
    • All Branches + Tags:
      • add remotes
        • including context commands for fetching, renaming, deleting, …
      • branches and tags are grouped by prefix, except for Sort by Date (for which it makes no sense)
  • Log and Standard window:
    • Checkout (Enter): by default will check out local branch(es) on the selected commit

Fixed Bugs

  • Standard window:
    • preferences option ‘Allow modifying pushed commits:
      • ‘Only for feature branches’ did not work for empty feature prefix
      • low-level property ‘push.forcedPushConfirmationForSafeBranches’ should also be honored if force-pushing is allowed ‘For all branches’

Other Noteworthy Changes

  • Branches/Graph: added low-level property ‘core.refs.additionalTopLevelRefs’ to parse additional top-level refs
  • Master password dialog: make hint visible
  • Preferences:
    • Low-level Properties: removed confirmation button and show all by default
  • updated SWT
  • Standard window:
    • Repositories tab:
      • add link to select obsolete repositories
      • Filter:
        • entered (valid) path is taken as default for Add or Create Repository
        • use Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to invoke the Add or Initialize command for existing repositories/directories
    • Stashes view: auto-select newest stash