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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=" 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 Features, Improvements:
  • Hosting Provider improvements:
  • separate configurations for "cloud" and "enterprise"
  • GitHub:
  • support OAuth-authentication for Git executable with multiple remotes
  • show warnings which GitHub reports about OAuth-inaccessible organizations
  • Standard window:
  • Submodule toolbar button with popup for faster switching to submodule; removed previous Submodule category
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone: URL input field was not preselected if clipboard contained URL
  • Directories view (Standard window, Log window): sorting was not case-insensitive as in other parts
  • Preferences, Hosting Providers: double-click did not invoke Edit
  • Push: internal error when trying to push multiple repositories at once
  • Linux, MacOS: cloning from URL did not work (URL was treated as file)
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Clone, Repository selection:
  • allow filtering by group
  • ability to repository copy URL
  • File editor (git config files): optional auto-save
  • Hosting providers:
  • hid simple providers by default; can be enabled with low-level property
  • hid "Use oauth-token for repository authentication (instead of password)" - use low-level properties `*.useTokenForRepositoryAuthentication` for not recommended password access
  • Refresh:
  • performance improvements for index-only changes, e.g. after Stage
  • do not display index path for case-changed directories
  • Standard window:
  • Commit view: during rebase show the rebased branch instead of "HEAD"
  • removed inline help controls
  • reduced space between toolbar buttons
  • macOS:
  • environment variable detection: invoke shell with interactive option (-i)

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Clone:
  • easier cloning from hosting providers
  • the hosting provider repositories are shown in a tree structure instead of a table
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view, Compare, ...: several problems resolved for display of non-US-ASCII characters that are not supported by the selected font
  • Hosting providers: for some configurations the Domain input field was missing
  • Refresh (config): possible internal error if config file ends after subsection name [CgConfigState.parse Buffer.nextGetIndex BUE (2)]
  • macOS: on some systems the row height of tree and table controls was increased
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Updated SWT
  • Split Commit:
  • Continue: if all changes of the original commit were committed, allow to skip the confirmation dialog
  • Standard window:
  • Branches: improved anchor branch selection (source vs. target branch) for pull requests

New in SmartGit 24.1 Preview 2 (Mar 22, 2024)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Standard window:
  • Graph view: for multi-selection the commit popup was shown when clicking at ref
  • macOS:
  • Commit, Line Length Guides: if the message contained tab characters, the max-length-bars were drawn at wrong position
  • environment variable detection failed if `pwsh` was selected
  • Windows:
  • Commit, Rewrap: wrapped incorrectly
  • WSL: if appending Windows path was disabled, browser window could not be opened
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Clone:
  • the local path is now split into parent directory and directory name making it easier to place repositories into one or more parent directories
  • even for the first repository a path is suggested
  • i18n: updated Chinese translation
  • Preferences, Hosting Providers, Add: use popup button to select the type of repository
  • Repository Search:
  • if all repositories and groups were deleted before opening the Repository Search, it will group them by path like the repositories found during the Setup wizard
  • Setup wizard: stream-lined
  • main window selector became first page
  • Git executable and SSH client are configured by default and can be changed in the preferences
  • updated SWT
  • fixing drawing of non-US-ASCII characters in the Changes view and Compare
  • Log and Working Tree windows:
  • Files: "Renamed Path" shows new (target) path for rename sources
  • Standard window:
  • improved keyboard navigation, e.g.
  • Window | Branches cycles through Ref selector of My History and All Branches + Tag;
  • Window | Files cycles through Local Files and History Files

New in SmartGit 23.1.2 (Feb 20, 2024)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Blame:
  • by-author-coloring is always dark, even with light theme
  • Branches view:
  • toggling grouping option in hamburger menu did not trigger refresh
  • Commit view:
  • Rewrap (Windows): introduced additional lines/spaces
  • File Log:
  • possible internal error in case of missing objects
  • Hosting Providers:
  • Azure: client certificates did not work
  • Bitbucket:
  • own comments may not be editable
  • Merge to Local did not work for SSH repositories
  • possible dead lock opening a project for some hosting providers, e.g. BitBucket
  • GitHub: possible error "Object 'id' not found" related to pull request reviewer assignments
  • GitLab: possible internal error for redirected repositories
  • Open:
  • for worktree with mismatch between Git admin pointers, the more unexpected repo will be opened
  • for worktree with non-existing Git admin pointer, opening fails
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error if config file ends with subsection quote (`[remote "`)
  • possible internal error for large commit dates, e.g. year 2286
  • inefficient refreshing for large repositories with many submodules
  • Low-level property `json.graphQL.ignoreNullArrayElements` did not work properly
  • Log window:
  • all refs should be displayed by default (regression since 22.1)
  • Standard window:
  • tabs: internal error related to (unintentional) tab dragging while a dialog occurs
  • Delete/Move to Trash (macOS): did not refresh correctly after removing `.git` file
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Setup: improved handling of default files
  • Log window:
  • Comments: Edit should not be enabled if editing definitely is not possible
  • Log, Working Tree window:
  • Files view: "Renamed Path" column should show new (target) path for rename sources
  • Log, Standard window:
  • Save As: executable bit from repository file should be preserved

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

  • Standard Window improvements:
  • Edit Git Ignore File:
  • This feature (which already exists in the Working Tree and Log window) helps in identifying which Git ignore file causes a file to be ignored, or to simply edit one of the multiple Git ignore files.
  • General improvements:
  • Rollback-To:
  • Rollback-To is a new power-user command that will set the working tree or index to the state of the selected commit. It can be invoked on a commit (where it applies to all files) and on files of a commit.
  • This feature is very helpful for rebuilding a small feature branch where the last commit should contain all the remaining changes of the previous feature branch.
  • Add Upstream Remote:
  • If you've cloned your fork of a GitHub repository without the upstream remote, you can do that easily later now just by invoking Remote | Add. The dialog will be prefilled with the upstream data.
  • Compare: better selection color:
  • The selection color is now kept even if the control actually is not focused (which happened for showing a Find dialog or a context menu).
  • Fixed Control Alignment on macOS:
  • On Mac OS the controls, especially labels, checkboxes and radio buttons, were vertically not aligned on the font's base line. This has been fixed now.

New in SmartGit 23.1.1 (Dec 8, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • GitHub email address confirmation dialog: selecting the *Always use default email address* radio button wrote empty email address to `.git/config`
  • Azure DevOps: OAuth-authentication for repository was broken (unless Git config "useHttpPath" was set)
  • Investigate: under certain unclear conditions an internal error could occur when closing the Investigate window
  • Standard window:
  • macOS: click-dragging a table item might cause an internal error under unclear conditions
  • Commit: should not allow to create empty commit even if repository is empty
  • Linux: several problems with forced light theme on dark system theme
  • the background color of the Std, Directories table is dark gray instead of light gray
  • the caret in text fields is not visible
  • the preferences tree uses light foreground on light background for the selected node
  • Branches view:
  • when using `branchBrowser.showClassicAheadBehindNumbers`, colors are used (as in before SmartGit 22.1)
  • Log: added low-level property `core.remote.configNamesToIgnoreForUrlLessRemotes` to hide incomplete remotes (that are shown by `git status`)
  • some i18n fixes

New in SmartGit 23.1 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh: possible internal error while concurrently adding LFS objects

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 6 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view:
  • staging added block may not work anymore (regression in 23.1 RC 5)
  • Syntax coloring:
  • Verilog: number literals: did not support exponential representation, upper-case base characters and ommitting the size
  • Working Tree window:
  • Pull toolbar button did not show popup menu if Branches view was selected
  • Log window:
  • Files view for committed files: external tool from directory context menu ignored selected directory
  • Linux:
  • Branches view (Working Tree, Log window):
  • double-clicking to check out a different branch selected the next ref after the previously selected one, too
  • macOS:
  • Files table: file icon was drawn too far left
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Stash-on-demand dialog: optionally without Discard button by setting the low-level property `stashOnDemand.offerDiscard` to `false`
  • updated translation
  • Linux:
  • smartgit.sh: added hint to set `XDG_SESSION_TYPE=X11`

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 5 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view:
  • possible internal error when invoking Stage Line
  • File Compare/Conflict Solver:
  • internal error pressing Shift+Tab depending on the selection
  • File Log: possible internal error when clicking ref-link in Commit view
  • Pull (Working Tree, Log window): did not work any more
  • Refresh (working tree): worktree definitions (.git/worktrees//gitdir) with relative path should better be honored
  • Stage: possible internal error when staging a file in the root directory of a partition mounted to a NTFS directory (Windows)
  • Standard window:
  • My History: internal error for a diverged local, tracked branch
  • Pull: should not auto-forward branchs which are attached to worktrees
  • Start Feature dialog: the dialog is too large if no main branch selection is showing now, but for other repositories
  • Linux:
  • caret color for editable combobox was not set for forced dark theme
  • workaround for SWT/GTK bug https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/403 (Table: vertical scrollbar is misplaced depending on used Layout)
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Commit dialog: reverted default behavior to honor "Prefer staged" from 22.1 unless the low-level property `commit.overridePreferStagedPreferenceBySplitTableFocus` has been configured
  • I18n: updated Japanese translation

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 4 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view:
  • possible internal error when opening file with comments which is too large to display
  • Images viewer: zooming is incorrectly handled by mouse position
  • Refresh (Working Tree): possible internal error after switching Git's "core.ignoreCase"
  • Remove Worktree (Working Tree window): error `GIT_DIR for repository at '...branch' does not exist.`
  • Stage: possible internal error when staging a missing file while concurrent processes recreate this file
  • Syntax, Markdown: styling did not end at begin of new list item, header, ...
  • UI: some checkboxes and radio buttons were incorrectly layed out (which was only noticable on certain systems)
  • Log and Standard window:
  • massive performance regression for the working tree status (since version 21.2)
  • Log window:
  • most tools were disabled if, e.g., the Branches view was selected

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 3 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Syntax coloring:
  • C(++): show valid and invalid escape sequences (fix)
  • Java: support more invalid char literal (escape) sequences (fix)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • in some dialogs checkboxes or radiobuttons are incorrectly layed out possible internal error after registering hobby license without restarting Log, Commits view: temporary memory leak after closing repository
  • Standard window:
  • Start Feature:
  • main branch suggestion should honor current head
  • if multiple main branches are configured, ahead main branch may be reset back without confirmation
  • Working tree window:
  • (permanent) memory leaks after closing repository
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Changes view, images diff: limit the size of images to (by default) 5000 pixels in each direction (low-level property `org.eclipse.swt.internal.imageLoader.maxSize` configures this limit) (e.g. to avoid possible out-of-memory error for small SVG files on Linux)
  • File Compare and others: remove fix for non-US-ASCII characters those which have problems with increasing row-heights caused by non-US-ASCII characters should set the low-level property `org.eclipse.swt.internal.styledtext.additionalTextForSizeTest` to contain such character(s)
  • Git-Flow Finish: for external Git-Flow, show information explaining why tag name can't be customized
  • Standard window:
  • Start Feature: improve "move into feature branch" dialog

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 2 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Syntax:
  • ANTLR: support for code blocks
  • Cmd: support for "strings"
  • Markdown: support for frontmatter (e.g. GitHub as blog)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view, File Compare:
  • Go to Next Change was broken if caret was only changed in other view
  • Standard window:
  • Graph:
  • "Follow only first parents" option fails to properly collapse paths after expanding them
  • repository might remain locked after closing tab while long-running refresh was still in progress
  • macOS:
  • Preferences: left tree had hard-to-read white text on light-blue background
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • GitHub avatars: support for [email protected] emails

New in SmartGit 23.1 RC 1 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements
  • Preferences:
  • Unified Font and Color settings on one tab
  • preview also for coloring (language dependent snippets)
  • Syntax:
  • added more and reworked colors
  • Java:
  • support for Java 21 String templates
  • Log and Working Tree window:
  • Window | Reset Perspective
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • BitBucket: possible internal error
  • Changes view: did not correctly set editable/non-editable colors
  • Syntax:
  • Markdown: possible internal error
  • Groovy: incorrectly highlighted leading `"` for string
  • JSON: did not highlight `null`
  • PHP: incorrectly highlighted `

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 14 (Sep 21, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Log/Working Tree window:
  • Discard: reject if selection contains staged+locally modified files
  • Standard window:
  • Pull: improve order of operations (fetch, fast-forward non-checked out branches, merge/rebase)
  • Start Feature: offer to reset main branch, if current main branch is ahead of its remote
  • Syntax:
  • simple Markdown support
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view: scrolling down might stop for certain changes
  • Standard window:
  • My History: author's pull request should show up for source branch, not for target branch
  • macOS:
  • environment variable detection did not detect all variables, e.g. not those from ~/.zshrc
  • macOS 14/Sonoma: "NewApplication" was shown as application name
  • Linux:
  • Gerrit integration: hook should not be detected if not executable
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Conflict Solver: improve detection of base blob ID in case of missing index entry (set default for "LLP conflictSolver.determineBaseBlobIdFromLogIfNotPresentInIndex" to "true")
  • Delete tracked branch: simplified dialog
  • Repository URL input fields (Clone, Submodule | Add, Subtree | Add): delete entries with Shift+Delete
  • Standard window:
  • Mini-Log: don't select Amend checkbox if forced push is not allowed in preferences

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
  • if 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// 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)
  • Linux: the desktop file which was created using add-menuitem.sh was reported as buggy
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • - GitHub email checker: remember no-reply email address for making it easier to select in other GitHub repositories
  • - Refresh: in case of junctions in the working tree, a warning is shown
  • - Save File As dialog: remembers size
  • - word-caret movement: made own implementation option by introducing the low-level property styledtext.useOwnWordBoundaryDetection

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 12 (Aug 22, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Changes view: allow to apply lines at start/end of changed blocks with different sizes
  • Standard window:
  • My History: ability to add further "favorite" branches (from All Branches & Tags)
  • All Branches & Tags: double-clicking a tag allows to check it out like double-clicking its commit
  • Syntax coloring:
  • added Forth, Verilog and (x86) Assembler
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commit, Rewrap Lines: deleted all # lines
  • http(s) connections: possible NPE for strange/buggy proxy setups
  • Preferences:
  • Add GitHub hosting provider: did not check for github.com in Server URL input field when adding, but only for editing
  • Rebase: could show error "The rebasing state has changed unexpectedly"
  • Refresh: symlinks in .git/objects are now followed
  • Log window:
  • Files: Save as invoked in a bare repository should not suggest location inside repository
  • Standard window:
  • Reflog: revealed old instead of new commit
  • Syntax coloring:
  • Batch: incorrect detection of FOR variables, e.g. `set PATH=%~dp0bin;%PATH%`
  • Python: _ was not supported in number literals
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • GitHub: shows a more reasonable error message for HTTP error 502
  • Refresh:
  • show more detailed error message in case of 'missing node'
  • support for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
  • Standard window:
  • added low-level properties std.*.allowDirtyWt to disable some safety checks for certain commands
  • Reflog:
  • hide intermediate commits
  • don't display gray commits
  • reliably include all commits up to a certain limit
  • Working Tree, Log window:
  • Commit dialog invoked from focused (split) Working Tree table: don't suggest index changes
  • Preferences:
  • moved Refresh options to "Commands" card to indicate that they are valid for Standard and Log/Working Tree windows
  • bundled Git: set gc.autoDetach=false, core.fsache=false
  • Linux:
  • show notification if non-UTF-8 configuration is detected which might cause problems for file names with non-US-ASCII characters
  • should auto-detect date format depending on LC_TIME environment variable

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Standard window:
  • Added Remove action
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Internal error when opening Blame and immediately dragging the repository window
  • Memory leak for "Detect remote changes" background command
  • Linux tar.gz bundle: contained mac-specific files
  • Log window:
  • Edit Message: internal error if working tree node was selected
  • Standard window:
  • Files: if no file is shown, the context menu showed enabled "Reveal in Explorer"
  • Output dialog: right-clicking a link, Copy URL did not work
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Updated SSHJ to v0.35.0
  • Add Branch (Log and Working Tree window): only allow checkout if the repository is in "normal" state (not during merging, rebasing, ...)
  • Conflict Solver (external): optionally find merge base for renamed files, if not present in .git/index (LLP conflictSolver.determineBaseBlobIdFromLogIfNotPresentInIndex)
  • (external) Diff tool: if multiple diff similar tools are configured for different extensions, they are used if comparing files with different extensions (until now the different extensions had to be specified in one diff tool)
  • Rebase Head to: show target in Output
  • Refresh (Refs): added low-level property "core.refs.followSymlinks"
  • Standard window:
  • Graph, Files: added low-level property "standard.graph.files.copyBlobIdAction" to unlock "Copy Blob ID"
  • Removed Toggle Assume Unchanged/Skip Worktree commands from context menu (too much power-user)
  • Removed Split-Off Files from Branches menu (only in History/Files context menu)

New in SmartGit 22.1.7 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • 2nd SmartGit instance crashes with FileSystemException
  • Rebase, Step: should not be available in non-step mode
  • Linux: evaluation reminder dialog might be hidden behind main window making the impression that SmartGit hangs
  • Refresh:
  • Possible problems with custom "filter..process" (long running filter process)
  • May not show modifications for files containing "eol" attribute without "text" attribute
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Graph layout: reduced memory consumption
  • Added low-level properties github.userQuery.* to fine-tune/debug query-sizes

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Support for on-premise license server (e.g. for license tracking in the company)
  • Standard window: simple customization of view-dependent toolbars (context menu)
  • Commit view (Log and Working Tree window):
  • if nothing is staged, ask for committing all files, with or without untracked files
  • added similar option in the preferences
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone, GitHub: repository list could use incorrectly cased URL
  • Evaluation: after end of evaluation, SmartGit could not be started anymore (failed silently)
  • GitHub and others: the virtual pull request commits should always show up, regardless of the Follow Only Primary Parents option's state
  • Log Graph: multi-selection broke after fresh
  • Standard window, +/Repositories tab: Add option is missing if the path was entered with leading ~/
  • Squash: possible internal error
  • macOS: Open in Terminal showed 2 terminal windows, if Terminal app was started by this command
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Conflict Solver: converted preferences option "swap ours/theirs on rebase" into low-level property conflictSolver.swapOursTheirsForRebaseConflicts (reason: if set, it is not 100% consistent, e.g. Git writes ours/theirs in the conflict markers)
  • Graph layout: reduced memory consumption
  • Preferences: needs-restart notification becomes auto-hiding and hence shows on top of other notifications
  • Standard window:
  • Add Branch, Add Tag: allow to execute from Local Changes view
  • Start Feature: enabled for more situations, e.g. when using the Local Changes view, or if no main branch is configured yet
  • Added low-level property window.title.showRepositoryPath to show the repository path in the window title
  • Edit | Copy Name: now also can copy repository names, not just directory names

New in SmartGit 22.1.6 (Jun 22, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view, Split Index/WT files: even if changes.preservePositionWhenSwitchingBetweenWtIndexHead is set to false, selecting the index or working tree of the same file did not select the first diff
  • Commit Message, Rewrap: possible internal error
  • Distributed Reviews: pull requests may not be properly updated to merge base
  • GitHub Enterprise: possible internal errror for "Generate Token" in preferences
  • JNA: still created temp directories (regression since 21.2)
  • SSHJ: possible internal error for unsupported private key format
  • Possible internal error killing a (Git) child process
  • Refresh:
  • Refreshing fails when using negative respecs (^)
  • LFS (Windows): possible internal error for case-changed directories
  • GUI:
  • View tabs (Log, WT window): a too-fast drag-and-drop continued to show the drag-reject cursor
  • Log window:
  • GitHub: possible too large amount of REST calls
  • Working Tree window:
  • If in Setup wizard the Standard window is selected as default, neither the Commit toolbar button nor the Commit view were visible
  • Refresh: possible performance problems for .git/index file without checksum
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Reactive license.serverPing.url
  • Log window:
  • Graph: Varying Coloring uses now more distinct colors

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Standard window:
  • GitHub: for forks "my" outgoing pull requests to upstream are shown (not just pull requests to the cloned repository)
  • GitLab, Bitbucket: authentication using OAuth 2.0 Loopback interface redirection
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • bug file was deleted immediately on startup if settings directory (or its parent) was symlink/junction
  • Bitbucket Server: wrong encoding was used for REST API (e.g. non-ASCII comments were not properly created)
  • Git-LFS: possible repeated SSH prompts for "-oControlMaster"
  • Syntax:
  • Inno Setup: "" inside "..." was incorrectly parsed
  • Yaml: invalid rendering of some comment lines
  • Log window:
  • Graph: "Show Only Selected Branches and Tags" option becomes re-selected after restart
  • Working Tree window:
  • Refresh: possible "cancelled" dialogs when switched between repositories
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • GitHub: added low level property "json.graphQL.ignoreErrorsIfDataIsPresent" to hopefully work around GitHub organization permission issues
  • main windows titles cleaned up (no path shown any more, no preview expiration date)
  • syntax colors in dark theme: made Comment a little bit brighter to be better readable on green (= added) background
  • added system property smartgit.settings.defaults to change the location of the "defaults" directory
  • Log window:
  • Graph: adverse order of Varying Coloring colors

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Compare and other similar controls: extended whitespace option to "Trailing, in selection and changed blocks" -> if selected, whitespace is shown in text selection, too
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Accessibility: possible internal errors on non-Windows systems
  • JIRA, Resolve: possible internal error
  • GitLab: can't add comment to unchanged lines
  • Graph: double-click should not offer to check out for bare repositories
  • Passing command line parameters to already running instance was broken
  • Distributed Reviews add-on: fix possible problem with negative refspecs
  • Refresh:
  • deleting nested .git directory did not refresh correctly
  • possible internal error in case of inaccessible directories
  • Standard window:
  • top-level bare repository could not be opened (but sub-repository could)
  • for bare repositories only basic ref-related options should be enabled
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Commit: workaround for bug in Git 2.40 preventing to create initial empty commit https://lore.kernel.org/git/bt4342bdip3nzlikjsv6wozszmcbsc2av6cyo3z2lra4jhx3ii@ut2sl5h4f5xn/T/#u
  • Hobby license: support for GitHub SSH URLs
  • Optionally no unpacking of SWT/JNA libraries needed any more
  • Graph:
  • in Rebasing mode
  • sort "in-progress" commit immediately before the HEAD commit
  • 'orig' branch should remain top-most
  • HEAD triangle (for detached commit) is now also black
  • bare repository: allow dragging non-head refs
  • Repositories view: when dragging files from other application, bring SmartGit window to front
  • Standard window:
  • Graph: in Rebasing mode, HEAD column should be sorted first (as in Log window)
  • Resolve: works now on multiple files (as in Working Tree and Log window)
  • Files, context menu: for conflicted files, Resolve is shown above Stage
  • macOS:
  • if no window is shown, allow to open any kind of main window
  • Windows:
  • smartgit.exe does not create temporary files any more

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 7 (May 11, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Standard window: first accessibility support (for getting feedback)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commands to create tags without message failed if tag.gpgSign was set
  • Squash: dialog might show visually identical authorships
  • Graph:
  • avatar display in "Only if Changed" mode did not check for change in email address (but just user name)
  • Log window:
  • internal error when using low-level property "log.workingTreeState"
  • Commit view: if name is an email, it was not shown
  • Standard window:
  • Output dialog: performance problem for many lines
  • Repositories tree: could not rename groups
  • GUI:
  • speed-search popup remained in error state after non-match
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Graph and other controls show an empty message if nothing is selected
  • GitHub: added low-level property log.github.createPullRequestAllowDifferentUpstreamName
  • GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure: Create Pull Request simply routes to browser
  • Submodule/Subtree wizard: made clear that (previous) "Local Path" is a relative path
  • Command line option to copy (convert) a repository to single-user (experimental)
  • Standard window:
  • same refresh-related checks as Log and Working Tree windows, e.g. for loose objects
  • shows URL-less remotes, too (as "git remote" does): smartgitc.exe --convert-repository-to-single-user=c:projectsrepo --convert-target=c:projectssingle-user-repo

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 6 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Changes view: added Go To Line command (for non-compact side-by-side view)
  • File Log: distinguish between exact refs and refs pointing to other commits, but were mapped to the same file state
  • JIRA, resolve on Push: optionally remember the last selected version
  • Syntax:
  • added TOML
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • fixed memory leak
  • Branches view: scrolls to selected ref on refresh
  • Changes view: synchronized scrolling did not work when searching
  • File log: possible wrong branch-mapping (to commit which does not represent file's correct state in the branch)
  • Log window or Standard window:
  • double-clicking a stash commit should not suggest to check out commit, but invoke Apply Stash
  • Standard window:
  • Commit: if nothing was selected, "There is nothing to commit" message
  • Output dialog:
  • scrolled always to top with new output
  • closing dialog could cause hang up
  • My History, All Branches + Tags: selecting multiple values (more than fit onto one page) scrolls to top
  • Stashes: selection was not properly initialized
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • support for Hobby-use license:
  • single author repositories or
  • open source repositories
  • Split Commit: preserve author
  • removed SVN integration
  • Log graph:
  • dark theme: show author != commiter in lighter foreground color (instead of pink)
  • Log window:
  • Commit (details) view: added low-level properties log.details.separateOnBranchesAndMergedToBranches and log.details.separateSameStateTagsAndClosestTags
  • when upgrading from previous major version, never unset Split Working tree/Index tables option under certain conditions
  • Working Tree window:
  • Log Selection toolbar button now named "Log Selection" as in the Log window

New in SmartGit 22.1.5 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Kill hanging process: possible internal error
  • Standard window: possible internal error when filtering
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error in case of corrupt .git/index file
  • possible internal error related to bad branch..merge entry in .git/config
  • problem reading packed-refs
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Log: remove notification "would you like the Log as default window?"
  • Preferences: after changing the Startup window option, show restart notification
  • Setup wizard: let the user confirm the Standard window

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 5 (Mar 31, 2023)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Rebase Interactive and other history commands: support for initial commit handling
  • Commit:
  • for GitHub repositories let the user confirm the used email address
  • Log window:
  • Commit Details: Closest Tags display now all tags which are reachable without any other intermediate tag
  • Standard window:
  • Integrate: asks whether to use --fork-point if it might be useful
  • Pull toolbar button: popup menu offers now Pull All for multi-remote repositories
  • left lists: keyboard shortcuts for commands
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • File Compare: syntax coloring was not correctly selected if no pattern, but a full file name was configured
  • WSLg: opening the browser did not work
  • Graph:
  • branches might jump downwards when extending the graph
  • Log window:
  • revealing a branch might have failed (auto-loading might have not get triggered)
  • Commit Details: tag-groupong tags should show up for commits with exact tags, too
  • Standard window:
  • Integrate: for diverged main branch, with deactivated progress dialog, nothing happened
  • changing keyboard shortcuts did not apply them until the window was closed and reopened
  • possible internal error switching from Local Files to History
  • All Branches + Tags: HEAD occurred with tag symbol
  • Graph:
  • clicking branch arrow did not load more commits
  • switching between All Branches + Tags and Stashes caused tag display flickering
  • Working Tree window:
  • Repositories: right-clicking a bare repository did not show any external tools
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Add or Init repository: don't add initial commit, because Commit will do that already
  • Graph: layouting improvements with respect to the sorting of tip commits
  • Preferences, Filter input field: ESC should clear it
  • Repositories, Remove: tries to close the repository before removing
  • Log, Working Tree windows:
  • Push: should be enabled for multiple remotes not named "origin"
  • Output, Clear: will clear now all items, except those which finished < 0.5s ago

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 4 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view: submodule comparison may continue to show error banner from previously selected file
  • Git-Flow: Configure was incorrectly enabled
  • Tag Grouping: was not applied if ~/.gitconfig contained [taggrouping] section without any key
  • Theming, default theme: table did not reset yellowish background after filtering
  • Log:
  • Commits view:
  • did not update after re-configuring Tag-Grouping
  • with tag-grouping configured, branch calculations (like "on", "closest tags") were not performed for standalone tags
  • possible deadlock when opening submodule
  • Standard window:
  • Commit, file name completion: possible internal error
  • Repositories tab: fixed layout for small screen sizes
  • WSLg:
  • on a fresh system (without ~/.config/) the settings were written to wrong location
  • installation update failed
  • restarting SmartGit after settings change did not work
  • windows did not show minimize/maximize buttons
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Branches view: apply Tag-Grouping even if no "title:" has been configured for group-patterns
  • Changes view: for non-binary files which are simply too large, "File content not loaded" instead of "File is considered as binary" is shown now
  • Conflict Solver: better description for left/right side
  • GitHub: display pull requests from non-existing users
  • Graph:
  • tag and ref background is better noticable now (according to Twitter/Mastodon) poll
  • too long, truncated ref names show now tooltip with full name
  • Standard window:
  • Repository tab context menu: added Close to the Right
  • WSLg:
  • add-menuitem.sh and remove-menuitem.sh create icon on Windows host
  • license file and a few settings are copied from the Windows host system

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Commit: preferences option for ignore comment lines, use message literally, or ask the user
  • Rename Commit, Split-Off, Squash dialogs always use the message as provided
  • Changes view, Submodule change: ability to open submodule log in compare mode
  • Split-Off Files: optionally create the new commit before or after the original commit
  • Log window:
  • Create Pull Request: optionally allow to open the web browser to create the pull request at GitHub
  • Standard window:
  • Finish Feature:
  • optionally allow to open the web browser to create the pull request at GitHub
  • detect protected branches and in that case default to Create Pull Request
  • Graph: loads more commits when scrolling to the bottom
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Background commands:
  • for poll, disable partial clone logic
  • memory leak if Detect Local Changes was enabled
  • Changes view, Resolve: possible error "Input length = ..." error for conflict files with specific encodings
  • Move and Squash: could create # in commit message of the resulting commit though the original message did not contain #
  • Refresh: possible problems with Git filter-invocations (low-level property core.git.invokeFilterDirectly)
  • Syntax:
  • Clojure: symbols might contain some non-letter character
  • PHP: backslash in single-quoted strings was incorrectly parsed
  • TypeScript:
  • underscore in numbers was not allowed
  • "any", "number", "string" and "undefined" were not highlighted
  • WSLg:
  • GUI was broken for 200% zoom level without configuring the low-level property ui.dpiFactor
  • Standard window:
  • Feature commands: for multiple main branches wrong main branch was suggested
  • Configure Features:
  • accepted input which was rejected later
  • did not show remote-only branches
  • lost pattern-based configurations after reopening
  • switching back grom pattern to simple branch did not work
  • configuration was picked up delayed
  • Open (file): for some extensions wrong default tool was used (on Windows)
  • Mini-log: bold (pushable) commits were not identical in all cases with Graph
  • Rebase: false-positive warning about already pushed commits
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Add or Create Repository:
  • if a path inside a repository is provided, open that repository
  • if a path inside a submodule is provided, ask whether to open the submodule or outer-most repository
  • update bundled Git to 2.39.1 and Git-LFS 3.3.0
  • theming:
  • make it easier to override only specific colors on top of an existing theme: https://docs.syntevo.com/SmartGit/Latest/Theme-Customization.html
  • improved default (light) theme on macOS (less gray)
  • smartgit.properties: support UTF-8
  • Syntax:
  • JSON: support // and /* ... */ as in TypeScript's tsconfig.json
  • macOS: ignore events for disposed widgets causing assertions
  • Log window:
  • Changes view: opening Submodule re-uses current window when selecting "Existing window"
  • Drop Local Data (for pull requests): works on multiple pull requests at once
  • Standard window:
  • Commit: unset "Amend", if "Amend" was set automatically by clicking the HEAD commit in the mini-log, and the user edits the commit message
  • Files view:
  • if the space is not enough to display the full name or path, especially for renamed files, give the name more place
  • for renamed files, the renamed part is highlighted
  • show "empty commit" if no files are available
  • Finish Feature: more efficient GitHub query (Finish dialog comes up faster)
  • Integrate Feature: in dialog-less mode, show warning for diverged main branch
  • My History view: if a local branch is different from its remote branch, show the remote branch as separate line below the local branch; this simplified selecting the remote branch in the Graph
  • Refresh:
  • performance improvements (by using a .git/index cache like the Log window)
  • reduced memory consumption for repositories containing many files
  • Tools main menu: contains only tools that operate on the repository root;
  • if the tool should operate on a specific directory or file, invoke the tool from the directory's or file's context menu

New in SmartGit 22.1.4 (Feb 22, 2023)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Background scan: fixed memory leak if Detect Local Changes is disabled
  • Changes view: Resolve may fail with "Input length = ..." error depending on the used encodings
  • Fetch More: internal error when trying to fetch non-branch, like Gerrit refs/changes/01/000002/3
  • Standard window:
  • Files: possible incorrect original path shown for renamed file
  • Filter: various regex-selectors, e.g. .* were non-functional
  • GitHub: possible internal error during refresh
  • Rebase may silently do nothing

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

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Completion: selection is lost if the popup is open and the selection is modified
  • Refresh: possible problems with Git filter-invocations (low-level property "core.git.invokeFilterDirectly")
  • Windows might be possible to come to front if focus is changed while in background (regression)
  • Standard window:
  • Some menu items are enabled if no repository was opened
  • My History: even branches where shown packed
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Standard window:
  • Apply Stash: should only switch to WT if there are local changes
  • Mini-Log: use log.useCommitMessage.prefix, except of when amending
  • Repositories tab:
  • Allow to copy path of selected repository
  • Filter input field:
  • Don't suggest Initialize for roots or parent dirs of known repositories
  • Show Add suggestion even if repositories with this prefix are known, except if the found root is already known

New in SmartGit 23.1 Preview 1 (Jan 22, 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)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Setup wizard: possible internal error on Finish (related to proxy configuration)
  • Standard window:
  • Start Feature: could reset diverged local branch (not ahead or behind) onto remote branch (possible loss of commit)
  • Graph: internal error when selecting virtual and one other commit
  • Log window:
  • Changes: clicking submodule commit did not reveal commit reliably
  • _ Hosting providers:
  • Azure: for multiple configured hosting providers (accounts), refreshing only worked randomly
  • GitHub: possible "Object author not found as parent of PullRequest" for pull requests of non-existing users
  • Refresh:
  • \ at line end of config file was erroneously treated as line continuaton
  • Could break in case of inaccessible directory or file
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Azure DevOps: added low-level property "azure.accountMatchHonorOrganization"
  • Rebase: by default rejects Rebase Interactive when trying to rebase onto a commit of the HEAD's history (low-level property "rebase.invokeInteractiveForBranchHistory")
  • Log window:
  • Changes: font to display comments might be too small to read: added low-level property "changesView.comment.fontSize" to configure the size

New in SmartGit 22.1.2 (Dec 23, 2022)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Annotate: possible internal error
  • Background scan: fixed memory leak
  • Bitbucket: failed for pull requests with invalid refs (silently ignores them now)
  • GitHub integration: possible error "Object 'requestReviewer' not found as parent of 'nodes'"
  • Spell checker: possible internal error when accepting fix while the message was cleared automatically after a successful commit
  • Syntax coloring, PHP: incorrect end of string detection
  • Various operations: possible error "Inappropriate ioctl for device" when writing .git/config
  • Refresh:
  • possible error "is a directory" when opening a repository with symlinks in .git/refs
  • possible error "Bad entry" for rn continuation in Git config file
  • UI:
  • Changes View/Compare: non-US-ASCII-related problems; restored SmartGit 21.2 behavior
  • Investigate toolbar icon had wrong background
  • Standard window, Commit: line length guide ignored left margin
  • Linux:
  • fails to start if 'which' command is not available
  • visible empty shell when clicking Shutdown
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Graph: low-level property log.graph.commitMessageToolTipLimit can be set to 0 to disable message tooltips entirely
  • Pull: Git config "pull.ff=only" is respected
  • Refresh: for invalid pack files, a better error message with solutions is shown
  • Toolbar: ability to add Fetch button

New in SmartGit 22.1.1 (Nov 28, 2022)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Fetch: possible internal error
  • Git config file: possible corruption when writing, especially for lines after a comment line
  • Push To: did not configure tracking even if options were set to do so
  • Preferences: certain .gitconfig options may become confused if not stored with canonical case in .gitconfig
  • Log:
  • Subdirectory Log: internal error double-clicking a commit
  • Graph: possible internal error when filtering with set low-level property "log.graph.topoFilter.alwaysIncludeContainingMerges"
  • Standard window:
  • internal error cloning a repository into a directory which was already open and had been deleted outside SmartGit
  • Local Files, Push toolbar buttons: count badge might be outside the button depending on the screen zoom level
  • i18n:
  • Investigate: i18n problems
  • macOS: window-less menu bar was not translated

New in SmartGit 22.1.0 (Nov 11, 2022)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • File Log: hitting Del in the Branches view caused internal error
  • JIRA: many recurring dialogs after cancelling SSL client certificate

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 17 (Oct 11, 2022)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Drag and drop: possible internal error
  • Gravatar image: pending gravatar image showed up as white for dark theme producing visual noise
  • Log Graph:
  • initiating a range-rebase using drag and drop did not work for commit having multiple children
  • Refresh: possible internal error in case of concurrent file system changes
  • Standard window:
  • if local main branch is missing, remote main branch did not show up if multiple remotes were configured
  • My History: 'tracked branch has different name' check reported false-positive
  • Linux, deb-bundle: bundled JRE had incorrect permissions preventing the execution of external commands
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Log Graph:
  • use more colors for refs
  • Working Tree/Log window:
  • added low-level properties docking.dnd.minTime and docking.dnd.maxTime to reject unintentional drag and drop of views
  • added low-level property docking.dnd.enable to disable drag and drop of views
  • Standard window:
  • All Branches + Tags: use same ref colors as in My History view
  • by default show current branch not just bold (might be harder to notice in dark theme), but also with leading triangle
  • Checkout: allow switching branch with dirty working copy
  • command error popup shows now error details instead of just "Command failed!"

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..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)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Azure DevOps: integration was not applicable for ssh://[email protected]:22/project/_git/application URLs
  • Rebooting while running might lose newly entered hosting provider credentials
  • Refresh (working tree): possible internal error if .git/index has null-checksum
  • Git-Flow (external): finish feature/hotfix/release branches containing '/' did not work
  • Changes view:
  • possible internal error selecting certain images (depending on color model)
  • possible internal error when applying/reverting selection containing removal of empty line
  • Log:
  • Graph: possible internal error for partial clones when filtering for file name or content
  • Refresh:
  • BitBucket Server: possible internal error if pull request has been created from tag
  • squashed subtrees were not detected
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Added low level property refresh.checkGitAdminOutsideOfModel

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 14 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Cherry-Pick: support for Skip
  • Rebase/Revert: conflicts are considered as warnings, not errors
  • 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
  • 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 Features, Improvements:
  • Standard window:
  • Jenkins integration
  • Teamcity integration:
  • query for local branch commit to show more approriate results
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Standard window:
  • Graph showed outdates state
  • Local file changes: may not reliably refresh root state banner
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Standard window:
  • [+] tab: filter input field to quickly find repository by name or path parts

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Standard window:
  • ability to create pull request even without finishing a feature
  • My History: Continues Integration (Teamcity)
  • (safe) Rename (local) Branch: performs a couple of safety checks and renames the remote branch, too
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Prune Worktrees: did not work any more with latest Git version
  • Refresh: possible memory overflow due to file monitor cache growing too large
  • Working Tree and Log window:
  • Output: right-click did not show context menu
  • Standard window:
  • Features: possible internal error after configuring main branch
  • My History: clicking 2 times a local branch with far behind tracked branch did not select the tracked branch
  • Graph: may not reliably refresh root state banner
  • Linux:
  • opening new repositories quickly by double-click might get stuck
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • license reworked:
  • non-commercial use:
  • removed hobby usage option
  • requires registration
  • evaluation requires machine-specific activation now
  • JIRA: support token-based authentication
  • show notification if a deprecated low-level property is used
  • Files view (split presentation): if a file rename is staged and then modified, the working tree displays the modified state
  • Branches, Stash: Copy Message: copy the message from commit which might include, e.g., line separators
  • hosting providers: improved error reporting
  • Repositories view: for open repositories show remotes in tooltip
  • too large tooltips can be expanded/collapsed using F1
  • Standard window:
  • All Branches + Tags: ability to push tag
  • Pull: automatically delete obsolete tracking branches (if the commit is merged and no merged commit has a different author or committer than me)
  • Rebase: warns if pushing would require a forced push

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)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view, GitHub: comment on last line was incorrectly mapped to first line
  • Cherry-pick: "Append source SHA to commit message" was not honored when cherry-picking without committing
  • Log: possible internal error when searching for a commit
  • Push: internal error pushing one new local and some other tracking branch and tracking should be configured
  • File Compare selection: the file's relative path was used instead of the file name for determining the matching configured file compare
  • Refresh:
  • symrefs pointing to other symrefs could be considered as invalid though they were fine
  • symrefs should be resolved even if target is outside of refs/
  • possible error "Unknown Chunk ID" when using Git 2.36
  • Standard window:
  • Features: if "gitflow.prefix.feature=/" is configured, every branch should be considered as feature (as if the prefix was not configured at all)
  • Finish: possible error "Connection to GitHub failed" if there are existing pull requests which have been created by a bot
  • Repositories tab:
  • could not delete single repository group
  • internal error invoking Move To for several selected repositories
  • possible internal error related to displaying renamed/moved file
  • possible internal error closing a repository quickly after opening it
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • External tools: previous default tool "Format Patch" has been removed; who needs using it, can readd it manually: https://docs.syntevo.com/SmartGit/Latest/Example-Tools.html#format-patch
  • GitHub: improved handling of permission-related OAuth problems
  • Updated JRE to 17.0.3
  • Updated SWT to v4952r11
  • Standard window:
  • Copy NameL works on pull requests, too
  • Open Ref/Commit in browser (GitHub web frontend)
  • Undo Last Commit: requires clean working tree and index
  • Windows:
  • dark theme: search input fields now use light instead of dark icons

New in SmartGit 22.1 Preview 9 (May 31, 2022)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Standard window:
  • Edit Author
  • external tools
  • Reflog (was experimental before)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view:
  • for Unified view and a removed block, Goto Next Change jumped to the beginning of the block
  • obsolete image/submodule information may remain after switching to another file which gives "file size exceeds" error
  • Log and Working Tree window:
  • Toggle Assume Unchanged/Skip Worktree: option was missing in context menu for missing files
  • Log window:
  • Graph filtering for Modified Content may miss matching files with invalid UTF-8 file names
  • Delete Ref: for local, non-tracking refs warning may not mention "unpushed commits"
  • Refresh:
  • internal error opening file located on repository root
  • Windows: possible "access denied" for System Volume Information
  • Startup: internal error if ~/.gitconfig started with UTF-8 BOM
  • Standard window:
  • All Branches + Tags: internal error when clicking Copy Name/Path/Relative Path in Files view
  • Finish Feature: for merge commit author from last feature commit was used instead of configured author
  • Linux: shutdown of file monitoring may block application shutdown for a long time
  • macOS:
  • Branches view: ahead-behind information scrolls horizontally instead of staying at the right side
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Changes-Compare: experimental low-level property compare.applyCleanSmudgeFilterForWorkingTreeFile to apply the clean-filter, followed by the smudge-filter for the working tree file
  • Fast-forward external tool has been replaced with built-in command
  • Preferences, Executable: show Git version
  • Submodule Update: don't stop in case of update errors in a single submodule
  • Standard window:
  • Commit: if nothing is staged,
  • multiple changed files are selected, commit them
  • a single file is selected and multiple committable files exist, ask whether to commit this file only or all
  • hide feature-related toolbar buttons if Git-Flow is explicitly disabled in .git/config
  • GitHub integration: now also supports GitHub Enterprise

New in SmartGit 21.2.3 (May 30, 2022)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Files (Log and WT): State and Working Tree State columns should denote rename sources as "missing", not "unchanged"
  • GitLab: error "The authorization server does not support this response type" when trying to generate a new token
  • Log: possible internal error when filter for modified content
  • Pull: Git config "pull.rebase=merges" should be honored
  • Pull/others: submodule..update=none should be honored
  • Refresh (WT): "filter" may not be applied if listed after "text" or "eol" in .gitattributes
  • Changes view
  • internal error related "Split leading/trailing lines" option
  • Copy without selection: copies 1 char too much resulting in crash for last line
  • for Unified view, Goto Next Change may remain at existing change
  • error "failed to read file" for missing files if "core.autocrlf=input" is configured
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • GitHub: support OAuth repository authentication for gist.github.com, too
  • Added low-level properties
  • status.gitCompatibleMode
  • submoduleUpdate.failAllIfSingleUpdateFails

New in SmartGit 21.2.2 (Jan 27, 2022)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view: split-off block may miss background color
  • Cherry-pick: possible internal error related to subtrees
  • Conflict Solver: for LFS conflicts, left and right will show wrong contents (of base file)
  • Graph (macOS): (x refs) box with dark background on dark system with light SmartGit theme
  • Pull: possible internal error when trying to initialize SVN submodule
  • Refresh (Windows): internal error when trying to open repository located at special directory, like "C:UsersaccountMy Documents"
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Added low-level property "gitlab.additionalRequestHeaders"

New in SmartGit 21.2.1 (Dec 22, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • macOS bundle with invalid version information
  • Changes view:
  • unexpected "Error reading file, Details: cancelled" for Git-LFS file which exceed the size threshold
  • possible internal error clicking "Force Compare"
  • Commit/Stash: possible error "unknown option `pathspec-from-file=-'" when using Git 2.25
  • External tools: ${commit2} was marked incorrectly as optional
  • Gravatar: fixed assertion for incorrectly sized images
  • Log:
  • Graph: memory leak of core objects after invoking popup menu
  • File log: internal error if deleting and re-cloning repository while file log is open
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error "Unknown chunk ID ..."
  • internal error trying to open a repository which is actually a file
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Changes view: added low-level property changesView.imageSupport to disable image support
  • Git-LFS: added low-level property status.forceUpdateIndexForLfsRepositories
  • Pull: added low-level property pull.propagateFetchTagsToSubmodules
  • SSH-Fingerprint confirmation: show as Base64-encoded SHA-256

New in SmartGit 21.2.0 (Nov 19, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view: hitting Refresh did not reload file content
  • macOS: the (file) completion popup might be too narrow
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • macOS: use icon which better matches others on macOS 11/12

New in SmartGit 21.1.3 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • Azure DevOps: should allow multiple configurations for different server URLs
  • Journal: possible false-positive pushed commits for local, untracked branches
  • Kaleidoscope.app command line tool hang until SmartGit was closed; added a workaround
  • Linux: possible NoSuchMethodError running on older GTK with older SWT
  • macOS: Changes view reoccurs on next start after having closed it
  • Changes View:
  • Apply was available when starting within an inner-line change
  • possible internal error when reverting a black and changing the file once again while the confirmation dialog is showing

New in SmartGit 21.1.2 (Oct 1, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Azure DevOps: possible "Could not parse date" error on pull request refresh
  • Ignore: showed scary warning about discarding changes for untracked file
  • Refresh: possible internal error for commits with commit times > 2038
  • Branches view:
  • refresh may change selection from remote to local tracking branch
  • tag message did not show up for grouped tags
  • toggling remote ref might select local ref
  • Changes view:
  • if saving fails, error banner hides too quickly
  • horizontal scrolling did not always update reliably
  • possible assertion on Apply
  • staging hunks for untracked-missing renamed file fails with "Failed to write file" error
  • Working Tree window: did not reliably refresh after failed save
  • Log:
  • Files (working tree): ignored removed file which is locally existing does not show up unless View Ignored Files is selected
  • Refresh (Working Tree): automatic refresh did not clean up files after ignoring directory in non-root .gitignore
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • UTF8 detection now scans full file instead of just the first 64kB
  • GitHub: shows reasonable warning in case of organization access restrictions
  • Low-level property "core.tree.filter.backwardCompatibilityWithNonUnicodeGitOnWindows"
  • Table controls: if low-level property table.scrollToSelection is set to false, ignore the selection's visibility

New in SmartGit 21.1.1 (Aug 11, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • BitBucket: possible internal error on refresh
  • Changes pane:
  • maximum size limit was not applied to images possibly resulting in out-of-memory errors
  • possible out-of-memory error when selecting large file and having "core.autocrlf=input" configured
  • Stage did nothing on "Added" conflicts
  • fixed names on Unstage/Revert Hunk
  • Working Tree window: Changes pane does not show file if it is made visible while a file already was selected
  • Conflict Solver:
  • external conflict solver: temporary files may be corrupted by replacing LF with CRLF
  • Refresh:
  • index files format 4 could not be read
  • fails for repotool files which have been initialized with --worktree option
  • Windows: might fail if file in repository was inaccessible (regression since 20.2)
  • Setup: possible internal error with invalid msysgit-installation location
  • Startup: --log with a file fails with "Cache has not yet been updated/initialized"
  • Syntax coloring:
  • Java: binary and hex literals were not detected correctly
  • PHP: 'strings in quotes' are not detected in script mode
  • macOS 11: radio button selection changes invisibly when clicking a dfifferen tab item
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Syntax coloring:
  • SQL: use standard SQL without backslash escaping in strings

New in SmartGit 21.1.0 (Aug 11, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view: possible paint artefacts by resizing window

New in SmartGit 20.2.5 (May 4, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • BitBucket: redundant "access token"-refresh requests if integration and OAuth is enabled
  • Internal error if java.library.path contains invalid entry
  • Log:
  • File log: internal error when invoking Files, Rename
  • Repositories, Refresh:
  • after switching branches, obsolete submodules may remain
  • after switching branches, state of new submodules should be populated
  • Refresh: possible "submodule has error-prone admin area configuration" warning for main repositories created with "--separate-git-dir"
  • Submodule, Initialize: problems with named submodules
  • Stash:
  • Quick Stash behaves like normal Stash (showing a dialog)
  • Stash on Demand: must not apply if operation stopped in abortable state (rebase, merge, ...)
  • macOS: error parsing environment variables for 'fish' shell
  • Windows: internal error checking directory type under special conditions
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Low-level property "smartgit.nodecache.subtrees.enabled" to disable subtree detection and functionality
  • Tag grouping: "name" extraction should be honored in Branches view groups, too

New in SmartGit 20.2.4 (Mar 10, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes view: possible redundant refreshing if repository is a worktree
  • Edit Commit Message: did not warn before modifying pushed commits if HEAD was selected
  • Gerrit: detection fails if hooks/commit-msg is a symlink
  • Log:
  • Files: Blame should not be available on submodules
  • File Log:
  • failed to open for deleted-by-us conflict
  • (re)selecting "Index" node should reset Files/Changes view
  • Investigate: possible "missing blob" error when selecting commit which contains removed submodule
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error for submodule entries containing // in .git/config
  • Working Tree window: possible wrong matching between submodule entries in .git/config and .gitmodules
  • Syntax:
  • Shell: invalid parsing of $'foo' or $(command parameter)
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Announce end-of-life for SVN support on 2022-12-31
  • Linux:
  • notification about using bundled Git: optionally don't show again

New in SmartGit 20.2.3 (Feb 16, 2021)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Branches: stashes might be missing in case of corrupted logs/refs/stash file (which still could be processed by Git)
  • Changes View: no caret was visible
  • Distributed Reviews: showed duplicate comments on left side
  • Refresh: possible internal error related to concurrently changing, renamed files
  • Spell checker: could not read files with UTF-8-BOM
  • Startup/opening repository: possible internal error related to file-system probing of special network drives
  • Log:
  • Files: possible internal error related to deleted-by-us submodule conflicts
  • Graph: possible "missing blob" error when selecting commit which contains removed submodule
  • Syntax:
  • fixed C# and SQL parsing of # lines, also fixing a performance problem
  • Python: a line containing only a # was not detected as comment line
  • Worktrees: for some minor internal operations the worktree's config file was search at the wrong location
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Git-Flow: added low-level-property "gitflow.external.avh1.12"
  • Having SmartGit running only in the tray, launching it a 2nd time reopens last repositories
  • Linux: with dark theme comboboxes were hard to read
  • Log:
  • Details: possible confusion about "Tags", "Same State Tags" and "Closest Tags"
  • Graph, Filtering: horizontal space better used for filter options

New in SmartGit 20.2.2 (Jan 13, 2021)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • macOS: added low-level property envVarParser.timeout to configure the timeout for slow login shells
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes View, Compare, ...: internal error trying to stage/apply a selection at the file end
  • Log: possible internal error related to layouting very broad graphs
  • Preferences: internal error clicking search icon in search input field
  • Set Tracked Branch: possible internal error for branch names like "2%"
  • macOS 10.15: problem parsing environment variables if 'tcsh' is used as shell
  • Syntax coloring:
  • Java: 100f is not detected as one number, but as 100 and f
  • JavaScript: missed RegEx string
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • updated SWT
  • Linux: internal error changing screen DPI https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=568641

New in SmartGit 20.2.1 (Dec 20, 2020)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Commit, line-length guides: added low-level properties commit.lineLengthGuide.limit1/limit2/limit3 to configure limits https://smartgit.userecho.com/en/communities/1/topics/963-
  • Log: Select Parent/Child Commit has less priority if a file is selected; makes is easier to use the same shortcut for other commands, e.g. Previous/Next Change
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Files: "inactive" submodules did not show up despite of selected "Show Ignored File"
  • Log:
  • internal error selecting Files tab if it is in the same tab group as the Changes view
  • Graph (File log): for grouped tags, denote whether the first tag is signed
  • GitHub:
  • during refresh comments vanished temporarily in Changes view
  • Refresh:
  • Windows: possible false-positive modifications of symlinks
  • internal error in case of corrupted filemode bits in .git/index
  • Subtree, Add: may fail with "terminal prompts disabled" message
  • Linux:
  • older GTK3 versions: internal error opening file/directory dialog - see readme-linux.txt
  • macOS:
  • Annotate: background was too light
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Exit by closing last window: show optional confirmation dialog; especially useful for users who have assigned ESC to the Close command
  • open browser from permanent directory instead of SmartGit working directory, otherwise there were problems with autoupdates
  • macOS:
  • uses own toolbar
  • detect environment variables:
  • system SHELL is used instead of hard-coded /bin/bash
  • timeout after 10s

New in SmartGit 20.2.0 (Nov 25, 2020)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Journal: possible internal error on drag and drop
  • Log:
  • Interactive Rebase, Modify/Split Commit: menu items should not be disabled because of merge commits (but though reject to operate because of merge commits)
  • Refresh:
  • Linux, macOS: performance regression related to timestamp precision
  • Remove Worktree: possible internal error if working tree was open in multiple windows
  • Stage: reported warnings about unrelated inaccessible directories
  • Linux: internal error related to checking the version of the bundled Git
  • macOS:
  • Cmd+W did not close log or working tree window
  • Stage: did not work for repository located directly at $HOME
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Ignore dialog: added low-level property "ignore.defaultSelection" that influences which option is selected by default depending on the selected file count and names
  • LFS: added low-level property "executable.addBinDirectoryToPath" to prepend the Git bin directory to the PATH, because otherwise for some configs git-lfs is not found
  • Log:
  • Graph: added low-level property "log.graph.drawSignedIcon" to hide the icon for signed commits

New in SmartGit 20.1.5 (Sep 29, 2020)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commit view with commit template message does not clean comment line (as Commit dialog does)
  • Compare: options for ignoring whitespace are not remembered on "Remember as Default"
  • Git-Flow, Start Feature: fixed wording in case of fast-forward merge is necessary
  • Log: possible internal error with swapped node cache
  • Passwords file: possible empty error dialog in case of corrupt passwords file
  • Update check is disabled after setting up SmartGit as registered user
  • Workaround for https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8253212

New in SmartGit 20.1.4 (Jul 29, 2020)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes: is not cleaned up correctly if file is selected and repository is removed outside SmartGit
  • Compare, Conflict Solver: internal error applying last (non-empty) line to other side
  • Conflict Solver: "compare.applyGitFilters" was not honored
  • Distributed Reviews: Integrate Pull Request: squashing fails with Git error "You cannot combine --squash with --commit"
  • Files, Copy commands: internal error if invoked in bare repository
  • Format Patch default external tool: was only available for head commit (regression)
  • GitHub Enterprise/GitLab: client certificates without password couldn't be used
  • Log
  • Graph: Checkout offered to track even remote head branch, e.g. origin/HEAD
  • Refresh: after opening repository, background tasks (like continuing SVN clone) were not scheduled
  • Refresh: "File system loop encountered" as part of the node cache refreshing
  • Settings: bugtracker-settings.xml was not read on first start
  • SVN:
  • Possible problems when trying to resume a clone
  • Table control: with table.scrollToSelection=false setting a selection did not unselect previously selected files
  • Working Tree window: title was not showing open repository under certain conditions

New in SmartGit 20.1.3 (Jun 24, 2020)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • File Log, Blame, Investigate: rename detection for searching the file origin was limited to commits with up to 500 additions/removals
  • Search for Repositories: added low-level property repositorySearch.autoSearchInDialog to disable the automatic search (useful for slow machines with hard drives)
  • Fixed Bugs
  • Could not be started with + sign in the path
  • BitBucket/others: Create Pull Request dialog contained duplicate target entries
  • Distributes Reviews
  • Branches view: "Show Closed Pull Requests" had no effect
  • External Tools: even if 2 refs are required, the tool could be invoked on a single ref
  • Find Object, open repository: did not always select open repository
  • File compare: stderr/stdout redirection for external tools did not work
  • GitHub:
  • possible "404 not found" error for subsequent refresh after adding a comment
  • Log: possible out-of-memory error while refreshing comments
  • Log:
  • Files:
  • for file log, the filter pattern from the repository root log was initialized
  • Graph:
  • when filtered, checking out a commit may erroneously check out mapped local/remote branch, e.g. different commit
  • Refresh:
  • possible endless loop in file system benchmarking code
  • Working Tree window: opening broken repository (without admin dir) broke subsequent refreshing and file monitoring until repository was closed and reopened
  • MacOS:
  • table controls: right-clicking the table header to show the column menu did not work if scrolled

New in SmartGit 20.1.2 (May 8, 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
  • Preferences, Colors tab: no editor colors were shown on macOS
  • 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
  • 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 26, 2020)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commit: internal error double-clicking entry in file completion popup
  • Clone: internal error if clone finishes after the repository had been removed while cloning
  • Several commands: internal errors for "unusual" file names
  • Log:
  • Refresh: working tree node doesn't show up after switching back to modified repository
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Setup wizard: the Log vs. Working Tree option covers more changed options now
  • Updated Chinese translation

New in SmartGit 20.1.0 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • temp dir cleanup did not work reliable on shutdown
  • SVN:
  • Log, Graph: "SVN revision" column won't immediately show up after opening SVN repository (but only after first refresh once it's already open)

New in SmartGit 20.1 RC 3 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Select JIRA Issue dialog: ability to copy key or summary
  • Add Worktree: tries to prevent putting working trees inside the repository structure
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Add Submodule: possible screwed up layout on second page
  • Blame:
  • line selection may jump unexpectedly when browsing through commits
  • may show wrong "merged through" commit if there are different merge-paths from the commit to the main line
  • Branches: Pull (and Set Depth): possible internal error trying to invoke on remote of bare repository
  • Changes view: selecting large binary file can cause OOME by calculating hash
  • Ignore: ignored escaping backslash characters when writing ignore file
  • Log:
  • Graph: filtering for a single commit in large repository should not cache all commit data encountered
  • Open repository: when opening a repository that already is open in a minimized window, this window will be restored
  • Output: may show unexpected "[K..." prefix with recent Git versions
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error related to untracked-missing rename detection
  • Removing missing repository might fail if the repository was open in another window
  • Repository search: repository in drive root had no useful name
  • Stage:
  • on repository on symlink root may remove files instead of adding them

New in SmartGit 20.1 RC 2 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Log window:
  • Branches:
  • Compare with HEAD: should be disabled for the current branch
  • Working tree window:
  • Repositories: ahead/behind information (orange/green arrow) is not properly cached for non-favorite repositories
  • SVN:
  • Clone: logs FileSystemException when detecting symlink support on Windows

New in SmartGit 20.1 RC 1 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Log, Graph: denote signed tags https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/181-
  • Interactive Rebase: if merge commits were detected in the commits that should be rebased, a warning is shown that they will be flattened (replaced by normal commits)
  • dark theme (Windows): lowered contrast of table header separators, text field borders and menu bar separator
  • (gr)avatar-cache: added low-level property avatar.cache to relocate it
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Files view, Index table: states were incorrectly named in Working Tree and Log window
  • Refresh:
  • internal error if repository is located on drive root
  • after commands:
  • inefficient refreshing after performing an operation on a submodule
  • broken for submodules located on symlinks
  • Log, Graph: with "Follow Only First Parent" option, stash may not be aligned with its base commit but show up at the top of the graph
  • Tree control (macOS): depending on configured selection color white foreground on white background color https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=558258
  • Conflict Solver: for unselected "Swap ours and theirs" option, left title should be "Rebase target ("ours")"
  • Changes view: unified scrollbar not always updates correctly when selecting a new file
  • .gitconfig: JGit-related lines like 'filesystem "Oracle Corporation|11.0.3-Syntevo|-2078966431"' were added to ~/.gitconfig, now to ~/.jgitconfig
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Pull (toolbar) operates on the opened repository ignoring the Branches selection:
  • added low-level property pull.honorRemoteSelection to enable honoring of remote selection in Branches view

New in SmartGit 19.1.7 (Mar 3, 2020)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • BitBucket Server: possible internal error when refreshing (related to moved repositories)
  • GitHub, Create Pull Request: fails if target repository name contains uppercase letters
  • macOS:
  • update of installation directory fails to cleanup old installation correctly
  • Refresh:
  • Git-LFS lock file information may fail to parse due to new timestamp format
  • Git-LFS locks processing (for own locks) should be more tolerant in case of missing "owner"
  • corrupt yml settings files (e.g. containing 0x00 bytes) fail SmartGit to start
  • Investigate: showed DeepGit version in title

New in SmartGit 19.1.6 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git-Flow, Integrate/Finish Feature: may unexpectedly skip commits to rebase
  • Opening bare repository may fail due to missing "logs" directory
  • Internal error setting log level to FINE
  • Log:
  • possible internal error for files obstructured by submodules
  • Log/Working tree window:
  • memory leak when closing
  • Log Graph/Journal:
  • internal error if a user name contained r
  • Journal:
  • changing Auxiliary Ref in submodule did not refresh automatically
  • Ignore:
  • internal error trying to ignore the root directory; resolved by only allowing directories containing only untracked (or ignored) files
  • Refresh:
  • for notification "Repository ... has a locked index" the "Delete" button may not work if .git/index.lock has been removed in the meanwhile
  • GUI
  • text input field, e.g. filters: Ctrl+Z triggered accelerator instead of accepting as undo for text field
  • MacOS:
  • drag and drop of repositories was more or less broken
  • default tool to open terminal might open wrong directory; requires installation upgrade
  • 10.15: preferences, menu items were scrolled out of view; workaround for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=558584
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • MacOS:
  • Git can't be bundled any more because it was not built with the hardened runtime and Apple rejects it on notarization

New in SmartGit 19.1.5 (Dec 5, 2019)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • GUI:
  • Table control: added low-level property table.scrollToSelection to prevent scrolling to selection, e.g. after toggling the sort status
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Compare:
  • GitHub: query was not tolerant in case of missing parent repositories
  • Rebasing commands (reordering, changing messages, ...): had problems with spaces in paths
  • Opening a missing repository in 2 windows could result in an internal error when confirming the removal
  • Possible internal error related to bare repositories
  • Index Editor: did not show a warning if a file could not be saved, e.g. because it was locked by another application
  • I18n: variable text parts could be replaced by "1", "2", ...
  • Internal error saving passwords
  • For commercial users with outdated licenses the evaluation did not work
  • Applying changes from default settings (startup.settingsToReplaceFromDefaults) did not work when upgrading from old XML files
  • resizing the window did not redraw the "Long lines" view causing garbage to be shown there
  • forgots some options when using "Remember as Default"
  • Log:
  • opening a freshly cloned shallow repository failed if a commit listed in .git/shallow was not present in the repository

New in SmartGit 19.1.4 (Oct 2, 2019)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Branches view: ability to copy stash name
  • Changes view: include commit ID for "Could not find submodule commit" message
  • Hosting providers: added low-level property smartgit.hostingProvider.skipCheckForConfigurations to prevent, e.g. notifications "Bitbucket Server integration is not yet configured"
  • Added low-level property smartgit.pull.skipCheckForExternalCredentialsHelper to prevent notification "External Credentials Helper detected"
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log:
  • Files: toggling Show Directories did not update the GUI immediately
  • Working Tree refresh: possible internal error related to core.ignoreCase=true
  • Clicking sourcetree:// URLs in Bitbucket did not open clone wizard any more
  • SVN:
  • Submodule initialization was not possible if smartgit.svn.scanSubmodulesForNonSvnParents=true
  • Refresh: uninitialized submodules don't show up if smartgit.svn.scanSubmodulesForNonSvnParents=true
  • UI:
  • Ctrl+Shift+1/2/... did not work if commit message field in Commit/Message view was focused
  • Graph/Journal view: focus rect not drawn correctly
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Dropped "Merge Directly To" 3rd-party tool due to a couple of problems with changed low-level Git API

New in SmartGit 19.1.3 (Sep 11, 2019)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Compare or others: possible internal error applying change
  • Output: for Git >= 2.23, progress output like "Compressing objects:" is not properly recognized anymore
  • Stash On Demand: should not fail with "Your local changes have been stashed away, but could not be reapplied." if stashing untracked files is disabled
  • Log, Graph:
  • Enter did not the same as double-click
  • focus rect is not drawn any more

New in SmartGit 19.1.2 (Sep 6, 2019)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git-Flow:
  • Finish Release: Tag Message is not set to tag
  • Finish Feature/Hotfix/Release: should not remeove remote branch if "push" option is deselected
  • Log:
  • Commit view: temporary inconsistency might caused assertion
  • Internal error trying to open bare repository containing .git admin directory
  • Window | Files tried to focus Directories view, even if hidden
  • Graph:
  • Could become inconsistend between selected refs and shown commits
  • When merging a tag (by right-clicking it), commit or other branch name on commit was used instead of the tag
  • Adding/removing tag from local branch did not properly update local/remote state (orange vs. black nodes)
  • Rebasing state: "done" labels might be in wrong order
  • Repository state banner text could get focus with blinking caret, e.g. after having clicked (Rebase) Continue
  • Pull: possible internal error if repository config could not be read
  • Refresh: - reduced short-term memory usage
  • Stash on Demand: asked to stash untracked files even if option to stash untracked files was unselected
  • SVN:
  • Cherry Picking a not yet pushed commit (= a commit without a revision) fails with "Aborting commit due to empty commit message"
  • "forgot" https credentials
  • macOS:
  • Stash All: adds backslashs before " to message
  • GUI:
  • Possible internal error expanding a tree control

New in SmartGit 19.1.1 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commit, Discard: invoking Compare for renamed file does not show source file, but only empty file
  • Tools: tools with only ${dirSelect} did not show up in menu
  • Startup: under certain conditions always asks for confirmation to send bug traces
  • Git-Flow:
  • Integrate did not honor custom base (if configured)
  • Start Hotfix fails if an unrelated version-tag is present
  • Start Release may suggest invalid (already existing) release name

New in SmartGit 19.1.0 (Aug 8, 2019)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • GitLab: Open-link did not work for repositories in subgroups
  • SVN:
  • cloning created 2 smartgit-*.tmp files in repository
  • duplicate tooltip in the status bar while cloning
  • GUI:
  • docking: unmaximizing a view with double click could close another view if its (X) button was positioned at the same location

New in SmartGit 18.2.9 (Jun 19, 2019)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git-Flow, Finish Hotfix: when using external Git-Flow no "version tag" is created
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • support for new BitBucket API

New in SmartGit 18.2.8 (May 21, 2019)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • SSH: support user names wrapped in single-quotes, e.g. ssh://'foo@bar'@server:1234/path
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • macOS: an update of the installation bundle caused a directory to remain
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • increased version of bundled Git to 2.21.0

New in SmartGit 18.2.7 (Apr 10, 2019)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Https: added low-level property connection.https.trustedFingerprints to work around certificate problems with self-signed certificates and proxies
  • SSH: authentication-related errors are reported now on re-occurring credentials dialog
  • Git:
  • Log: improved error message for "Inconsistency between (cached) commit data detected"
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Repositories: opening a repository opened already in another window (working tree or log) causes internal error if renamed or deleted on disk (missing repository)
  • Repository Settings on missing repository might cause internal error
  • Log:
  • Refresh: false-positive "repository has an error-prone admin area configuration" message for submodules in worktrees
  • Setting smartgit.log.hostingProviderIntegrationEnabled=true should not disable Distributed Review add-on
  • Working Tree:
  • Merge and other commands with embedded log: branch selection dialog should not hide remote, tracked branches
  • Check for New Version: broken if "Automatically download and install updates" has been selected in the preferences
  • Docking: maximizing and restoring one view by double clicking its title restores the wrong (too old) size

New in SmartGit 18.2.6 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Fetch (background): continues with next submodules if one failed
  • Git-Flow: added low-level property gitflow.integrate.shortMergeMessage
  • Journal: added low-level property journal.defaultAuxiliaryRef
  • Log:
  • Repositories: disallow to delete submodules
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • JIRA/Bitbucket Server/GitLab: problems when trying to access servers which only support a limited set of ciphers (elliptic curves); installation upgrade is required!
  • Git:
  • Commit: error "Cannot read file .../.gitbugtraq" if content is invalid
  • startup: command line parameter "--investigate" was broken
  • unmodified SVN submodules in non-SVN parent repositories showed up if "Show Unchanged Files" was unselected
  • Log:
  • Details: unexpected ID detection inside words
  • Distributed Reviews: trying to reveal comment failed with "Comment... could not be revealed"
  • File log: Window | Repositories caused internal error
  • mergable coloring used hard-to-see color for anchor in dark theme
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error have a large amount of renamed files
  • low-level property "log.wt.refreshOpenButUnselectedModels did not work on nested roots
  • Working Tree:
  • Show Changes: Compare with Each Other did not work for files from different repositories
  • delete on submodule did not work anymore

New in SmartGit 18.2.5 (Jan 30, 2019)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Gerrit: added low-level property gerrit.checkCommitMsgHookContent to avoid false-positive Gerrit detection
  • Log:
  • Branches, Checkout: added low-level property log.checkout.forceSelectionOfBranchAnchor
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Commit: Amend-option was disabled for merge
  • Log:
  • Commits view: revealing HEAD should always reveal HEAD and not stay at working tree node (e.g. double-clicking from Journal)
  • Refresh:
  • log.wt.refreshOpenButUnselectedModels broke refresh of commits
  • breaks in case of invalid Bisect configuration (missing "start" branch)
  • GUI:
  • Customize Accelerators dialog: internal error if a filtered-out accelerator is cleared by setting another
  • Compare/Merge, Apply Selection: possible internal error if all was selected

New in SmartGit 18.2.4 (Jan 16, 2019)

  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Details view: added low-level property log.details.onlyShowActualCommitRefsWhenFiltered
  • Hg:
  • support for Mercurial 4.8.*
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Commits view:
  • reordering commits did not preserve selection
  • rebase/cherry-pick by drag & drop was broken
  • when filtering, "actually on commit"-marker for refs (brighter box) was not properly evaluated
  • Branches view:
  • reveal after Checkout did not work for behind branch with "Just Checkout" option
  • checking out a branch should not reset a manually changed selection
  • external tools: incorrect parameter "--defaultsVersion" (instead of "--version") for "Show Git Version" tool (regression)
  • Working Tree Window, Files view context menu: LFS submenu might have been empty (if LFS was not yet installed)
  • macOS: warning about default osxkeychain credential helper
  • Hg:
  • possible performance problems with many draft commits in a repository with many merges
  • startup: possible internal error when specifying invalid value for low-level property ui.verboseDate.weekdayFormat
  • GUI:
  • Changes view: scrolling with mouse-wheel over connector selected next tab (if there were multiple tabs)
  • Customize accelerators: did not warn about duplicate accelerators if the commands where invisible because of filtering

New in SmartGit 18.2.3 (Dec 21, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Added low-level property log.dragAndDrop.offerAdvancedOperationsForDropsOntoAncestors to allow drag and drop for advanced rebase and cherry-pick operations
  • Open File Log reuses Branches view selection from repository log
  • Repositories view:
  • Select the current repository only if another repository or group was selected before (but, e.g., no subdirectory)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Compare, Apply Selection: internal error applying change from an inserted block
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Git-Flow Light: for various command dialogs "Fetch" options were disabled
  • Pull: "Update existing and fetch new tags" did not work for Git >= 2.20
  • Refresh: obsolete modified working tree overlaps new commit for a short time, then vanishes
  • Working Tree window:
  • Changes were not reported gradually anymore
  • GUI:
  • Several views: tab order cycled between table and search input field
  • Find Command, Find Object: shortcuts were swapped

New in SmartGit 18.2.2 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Pull with rebase, merge commit: added low-level property pull.rebase.mergeCommit.mergeOrRebase to avoid merge-or-rebase dialog
  • Log:
  • Repositories: added low-level property log.wt.refreshOpenButUnselectedModels to update the repository state of open, but not currently selected repositories
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Commit while in rebasing state: Skip Commit occurred for wrong situations
  • File Compare: forgot about BOM
  • Log:
  • File/Subdir log did not remember layout
  • Repositories: state got lost when opening multiple repositories at once and having "Show Working Tree & Index Permanently" selected
  • Changes:
  • Index content might not have been displayed if file was case-changed in working tree
  • Staging hunk for case-changed file did not work
  • Commits:
  • Filter broke after changing low-level property log.graph.graphicalFiltering in the preferences
  • Switching branches lost Working Tree/Index selection
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Reduced memory consumption of sub-processes (credential helper, SSH client, ...)

New in SmartGit 18.2.1 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • added low-level property log.graph.workingTreeAutoSelectionForConflicts to disable auto-selection of the working tree node if conflicts were detected
  • GUI:
  • added low-level property ui.fonts.useDefaultAsInfo to make the info font the same as the default font (instead of a tinier, derived one)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • BitBucket:
  • Clone listed only own repositories, but should have listed all with read-access ("member" role)
  • Git:
  • GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket integration: internal error trying to merge on server
  • Log:
  • Commits: resettings filter should not auto-select Working Tree or Index node
  • Repositories: could not invoke Pull/Push commands on group
  • Preferences:
  • proxy port was not remembered after switching off the proxy temporarily
  • SSH:
  • some special SSH server setups caused an error "ClassNotFound: org.ietf.jgss.GSSException" to be raised => these users should force an installation update from the About dialog using the button right beside the version text field
  • GUI:
  • Update check: multiple "The upgrade to version x is not covered by your license" notifications showed up

New in SmartGit 18.2.0 (Dec 3, 2018)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Push to Gerrit: should be available in case of multiple Gerrit remotes (if sill unique)
  • Log:
  • Branches view: Ctrl+C did not copy ref name
  • Changes view (Windows): old file content does not show up for case-changed files

New in SmartGit 18.2 RC 3 (Nov 29, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • External tools
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Changes view: use "Stage Hunk", "Stage Line" action names as in Working Tree window
  • GUI:
  • My-words.dic was not copied from previous version settings directory
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Not just traces of Java crashes are sent, but also traces for native SmartGit crashes (trace = code location where error occured)

New in SmartGit 18.2 RC 2 (Nov 21, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log, Journal: added low-level properties log.graph.author.maxLength and log.graph.author.truncateLength to limit excessively long author names
  • Log:
  • Commits view: context menu contained commands to drop or rename a selected stash, but not to apply
  • Notification for switching from Working Tree to Log window as main window
  • Possible errors after changing shallow commits
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Company installation, portable bundle: files from the "default" directory were not copied
  • Git
  • Commit: switching between "Staged Changes" and "Local Changes" in the dialog did not update the file count label

New in SmartGit 18.2 RC 1 (Nov 15, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • For existing users a notification is shown how to configure the Log as main window added low-level property log.files.includeIndexOnlyFilesForWorkingTreeNode to hide, e.g., renamed files in working tree node
  • LFS: if low-level property "pull.queryRemoteLfsLocks" is set, locks should always be queried regardless of whether a [lfs] entry exists in .git/config
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Finish Feature/Release: "Tag Message" actually is a "Commit/Tag Message"
  • Log:
  • Dialog to select refs for external tool: fixed layout problem
  • Setup wizard came up a second time after installing an update at the startup
  • Other Noteworthy Changes:
  • Optionally send native-VM-crash-logs to syntevo

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 10 (Nov 5, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements
  • --------------------------
  • Git:
  • Branches: performance improvements for many local tracking branches
  • Compare/Changes: added low-level property "compare.applyGitFilters" to also view, e.g. git-crypt file contents
  • Interactive Rebase: indicate equally named (autosquashable) commits
  • Log:
  • Filtering: performance improvements, especially for IDs
  • Commits:
  • Added low-level property "log.commits.preserveSelectedCommitsAfterResettingFilter"
  • Temporary "Reveal Working Tree" is now reset immediately once working tree became modified
  • Refresh:
  • Performance improvements after commit-related commands
  • Performance improvements related to hosting providers
  • GUI:
  • For too large tooltips, show the first 3 lines by default
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Annotate:
  • Gutter menu: wrong line was used (depending on window position)
  • Changes view:
  • If Ignore Line Endings was selected, applying a change block shortly showed line endings as modified
  • Commit message input field:
  • Comments (by default lines starting with #) only should be indicated if a commit message template is configured
  • Line length guides did not consider comment lines
  • Log:
  • Branches:
  • Lose content after trying to reveal invalid commit
  • Creating branch on existing local branch tracked the local branch
  • Commits:
  • Scrolling down for experimental first-parent option might not load new commits
  • Files:
  • Log, Blame, Investigate: did not work on removed files
  • Double-clicking a commit in the Journal did not reveal the commit in the Log if it already was open
  • Did not reveal stash from working tree window
  • Investigate:
  • Could not open log for renamed file
  • Refresh:
  • Did not refresh after deleting .git/info/exclude
  • Good repository might show up as missing directly after clone
  • Possible "Not a ref: ..." error message
  • Working Tree window:
  • Changes view: some accelerators were not configurable and did not work
  • Startup: when using the --log option, a redundant log window was opened
  • GUI:
  • Repositories view: F2 did not work to rename a repository/group
  • Tree controls: double clicking somewhere worked on the selection even if the mouse position did not change the selection
  • MacOS 10.14:
  • Repositories view: internal error dragging group
  • A couple of different internal errors
  • Removing a repository did not remove entries from projects.xml

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • Delete: disallow deleting the current branch unless the low-level property "branch.delete.allowToDeleteCurrentBranch" is set to true
  • LFS: offer LFS commands only if Git-LFS is enabled for the repository
  • Log:
  • Branches:
  • Checkout will reveal the checked out commit (new HEAD)
  • Pull, Sync: warn about an installed credential helper using a notification
  • Mercurial/Hg:
  • support for Mercurial 4.7
  • show a notification about the end-of-life of Mercurial support inside SmartGit at the end of 2019
  • GUI:
  • Changes/Compare:
  • improved select rows by using the line number column to include the end line as well, so a single click selects the current line
  • Spell-checker: ability to trigger the suggestion popup with the keyboard
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Commit:
  • possible error "Missing blob" trying to commit submodule addition and removal
  • Investigate (DeepGit):
  • internal error trying to invoke on file in bare repository
  • Log:
  • Commits graph: failed to show some commit connection (omitted arrows)
  • Files:
  • not updated properly quickly switching between commits
  • initialized SVN submodules showed up with "staged" icon
  • wrong icon for removed submodule
  • Refresh might fail when having submodule addition and removal in working tree
  • Rebase:
  • Continue complained about unresolved conflicts even if all were already solved
  • Repositories:
  • trying to open Hg repository might fail
  • Working Tree window:
  • opening log for repository which is actually is a submodule might fail
  • GUI:
  • Annotate: some accelerators did not work on macOS
  • Compare:
  • if option "Ignore All Whitespaces" is selected, some blocks were shown as completely modified instead of unchanged
  • Edit | Customize | Accelerators:
  • if filter was used, filtered out menu items lost their accelerators
  • Log:
  • Repositories: F2 on closed repository did not allow to rename
  • macOS:
  • Annotate/Blame: might show empty gutter context menu
  • light system independent theme: buttons did not show the focused state any more
  • macOS 10.14 (mojave):
  • fixed some colors

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 8 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements
  • Git:
  • Apply Stash:
  • If it fails to restore with Index, it asks whether to try without Index
  • Commit:
  • Comment detection: support for core.commentChar instead of hard-coded #
  • Compare:
  • Added low-level property "compare.innerLineMaxComputationSteps"
  • Index Editor:
  • In case of mixed line-endings, editing is prevented (it would fail later on saving anyway)
  • Interactive Rebase:
  • Added less aggressive Auto-Squash command
  • LFS:
  • Pull queries lfs locks if lfs.locksverify=true or if no lfs-section is present at all
  • Shows locking state in Name column tooltip
  • Log window:
  • Add Branch/Tag: works on HEAD if Working Tree or Index node is selected
  • Show Changes:
  • Allow to invoke even for unchanged files
  • If HEAD commit is selected and the file contains no local changes, the previous commit is compared against the working tree, so it's possible to edit the latter
  • Working Tree window
  • Show Changes: did not work for untracked files
  • View menu: don't assign F8-F10 by default - confused users who pressed these keys unintentionally
  • New Log Window, New Working Tree Window: unified to New Window
  • GUI:
  • Edit | Customize | Accelerators
  • Uses filter input field instead of speed-search
  • Prefer Log or Working Tree window: optionally remembers last used window if preferLogOrWorkingTreeWindow.auto is set to true
  • Repositories:
  • Ability to deactivate automatic adding to best matching group by setting repository.suggestMostAppropriateGroup to false
  • Theme improvements:
  • Darker buttons (in dark theme)
  • Visible borders
  • Another docktabFolder.drawStyle
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Commit:
  • MacOS: internal error closing commit dialog if lines were marked with commit style
  • Ignore:
  • Did not refresh correctly after ignoring by pattern
  • Index Editor:
  • If saving failed, the error dialog was shown on top of Working Tree or Log window instead of Index Editor
  • If saving failed on close, close was not prevented
  • Log window:
  • File log could not be closed on macOS using Cmd+W
  • Files view: if 2 commits were selected, Log, Blame and Investigate were disabled
  • Commits view: hovering over [x refs] area did not show tooltip
  • Refresh:
  • Possible internal error opening SVN repository with uninitialized submodules
  • GUI:
  • File Compare:
  • Internal error deleting/replacing all text:
  • Repositories view:
  • Internal error trying to open "other" Git/Hg repository
  • F2 did not work to rename closed repositories

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..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

New in SmartGit 18.1.5 (Sep 25, 2018)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Push to Gerrit: if topic is entered, add topic to master-option, like "refs/for/master%topic=topic"
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • startup: possible internal error related to a bad settings.
  • Git:
  • Gitignore/Git-config editor: is bright even with dark theme
  • Find Objects: possible internal error when entering a long search string
  • Refresh/Log: rename detection limit should be 50% by default (as for Git)
  • Hg:
  • internal error if no Git executable is configured

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 FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • added "Commit Message" view
  • removed option "Show Index and Working Tree only in Files view" was too unpredictable when to switch and when not
  • "Reveal Working Tree": selected commit can be restored using "Reveal Previous Commit"
  • low-level property "log.detectRenames" can be changed without restart
  • File Log: also show merge-commits in gray (like for a root log)
  • GUI:
  • Find Action: renamed to Find Command, finds now commands from the hamburger menus
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • dialog-based log: did not refresh on opening
  • Show Changes did not show anything for a missing file
  • Log:
  • File Log: some commands stayed always disabled
  • Files view: performance problems when populating commit files
  • opening multiple repositories did not work always
  • internal error opening bare repository (regression)
  • multiple commands were enabled for bare repositories though not useful
  • opening >1 previously opened repositories failed on restart
  • possible refresh problems in case of external changes for worktrees and bare repositories
  • redundant full refresh for reusing existing log window
  • redundant working tree refreshes
  • Welcome dialog did not allow multi-selection
  • GUI:
  • macOS: certain NPEs related to no connected display
  • preferences: internal error trying configure GitLab provider in non-commercial edition
  • Log:
  • double-clicking the window's title to maximize selected the commit at the cursor position after maximizing
  • Ctrl+S in Files view: prefer Save As over Stash All
  • Repositories view: double-click on group did not expand/collapse it

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GUI:
  • Find Command: finds external tools, too
  • Repositories view: most recently used repositories in hamburger menu
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • allow to open multiple repositories/submodules
  • modified submodules are denoted in parent repository
  • Add Tag/Branch: depending on focused view, either the selected commit or HEAD will be used
  • LFS:
  • performance improvements
  • prune command
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Immediate crash with fresh settings
  • SVN:
  • Remote Properties could not be changed
  • GitLab:
  • possible internal error
  • Git:
  • BitBucket Server: possible "Could nto convert URL" error for file names containing spaces
  • Review commands: were enabled even for non-configured repositories
  • Log:
  • fetching open repository in the background asked for the master password
  • possible hang after opening invalid repository
  • permanently scrolled HEAD/Index/Working Tree into view
  • Clone resulted in immediate error
  • GUI:
  • Changes view:
  • accelerators for menu items moved to the hamburger menu did not work
  • performance problem for large files

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 2 (Jul 23, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Some low-level properties now can be applies without the need to restart
  • GitLab: enhanced integration (merge requests and comments, OAuth)
  • SVN:
  • Background fetch: support for config option svn-remote..smartgitBackgroundFetch=false
  • Bitbucket:
  • support left/right Changes view comments
  • low-level property to configure per-page limit
  • 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
  • Git:
  • Refresh: performance improvements in case of merging state and many refs
  • 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
  • GUI:
  • new dock tabs: resize problems if Comments and Files were tabs in the same tab folder
  • 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
  • FURTHER DETAILS ON THIS RELEASE AT:
  • https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/changelog-eap.txt

New in SmartGit 18.1.4 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GUI:
  • system property "tooltip.enabled" to disable the large tooltips
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Possible internal error pinging license server
  • GitHub/Bitbucket: possible error message "Could not determine remote ref for pull request anchor" for special URLs
  • Git:
  • Blame: possible internal error
  • Clone (SSH): possible out-of-memory error when using built-in SSH client
  • Edit Last Commit Message: was erroneously not allowed in rebasing state
  • Ignore dialog: ignoring by pattern was broken
  • JIRA: for JQL queries, substituted project IDs had the be put in quotes
  • Log: Tools menu: did not update if tools configuration in the preferences got changed; View | Include Tracked Remote Branches did not update instantly
  • Push to Gerrit: target selection was not honored if entering a topic
  • Repository | Edit Git Config | User: used wrong file if HOME was configured
  • Bitbucket:
  • possible "cyclic reference" error
  • error "Object 'user/username' not found" for deleted comments, authors
  • Compare:
  • Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down changed read-only file content
  • Ctrl+D on empty line -> internal error

New in SmartGit 18.2 Preview 1 (Jul 6, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Proxy settings are remembered, even if disabled
  • Git:
  • Copy Relative Path: added system property copyRelativePath.useBackslash toconfigure whether / or should be used
  • Push to Gerrit: added system property ui.showPushToGerritInMenu that defineswhether 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 RepositorySettings are opened
  • 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 changedsubmodules
  • Branches view: indicate refs pointing to same commit as HEAD
  • JIRA, Resolve: added system property jira.workInProgressMarkers
  • 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
  • Find Object:
  • finds repository groups
  • finds repositories in most recently used order
  • Compare and others:
  • improved Apply Selection
  • inner-line change detection improved when splitting adding/trailingadditions/removals
  • GUI:
  • large tooltips, e.g. in Branches view, became less annyoing they show upsmall by default and need a F1 press to fully show up
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • http(s) authentication: possible problems with non-ASCII characters in user name or passwords
  • GitHub/BitBucket: confusion when having multiple remotes
  • Git:
  • 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
  • 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
  • SSH:
  • using JSCH could cause endless hang
  • possible out-of-memory errors
  • authentication errors
  • GUI:
  • macOS: configuring accelerators if they already were used in the window-lessmenu bar
  • perspectives: resized controls were not remembered/restored correctly undercertain conditions
  • OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • 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 12, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Bitbucket integration: improved error reporting
  • Output dialog: remembers size (and location)
  • some hosting providers: added low-level property "json.enableGzip" to enable GZIP compression
  • Setup wizard: added option to use gravatar.com (in the preferences, it was moved from the Commands > Log page to the Privacy page)
  • Git:
  • Updated bundled Git to version 2.17.1 (macOS, Windows; needs new installation or manual triggering of a genuine update in the About dialog)
  • Log: Refresh: improved error message in case of bad stash-reflogs; revealing a ref in an existing, filtered log window now resets the filter
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Bitbucket integration: problems parsing multiple reviewers
  • GitHub integration (main window): certain errors were not reported
  • GitLab integration: API version v3 is not supported any more
  • Git:
  • Commit Message view: entered message was not stored in the history
  • Ignore: internal error trying to ignore directory with certain special characters like '[' in its name
  • Local | Rename: allowed to rename the . directory
  • Log/Journal: right-clicking an unselected commit showed commands for previously selected commit (Linux, macOS)
  • Refresh: possible error for files with name "aux" (Windows)
  • Stash Selection: failed with quotes in the message
  • Log: internal error switching back from "Varying Coloring" to "Root Coloring"; toggling individual pull requests did not work
  • SSH:
  • recurring error "The fingerprint of the SSH server has changed"
  • an invalid .ssh/known_hosts file might show a lot of notifications about the failed read

New in SmartGit 18.1.2 (May 17, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Log: re-introduced former "varying" coloring
  • added low-level property compare.gitCompatibleBinaryDetection
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • SSH: certain problems with private key authentication (depending on files parallel to the provided private key file)
  • Git:
  • interactive rebase timed out after 2min (Windows)
  • Journal/Log: possible "Node ... not found" error when opening repository; right-clicking loses selection if scrolled down
  • Rebase Head To: "Can't rebase HEAD to HEAD or an anchestor commit" error if HEAD is hidden
  • Hg:
  • Conflict Solver: did not open for graft-conflicts
  • Log: internal error when opening in Rebasing state

New in SmartGit 18.1.1 (Apr 27, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Output: if low-level property output.showOnlyIfViewInvisible is set to false, the Output dialog is shown independent of the Output view's visibility
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: if the low-level property gitflow.requireCleanWorktreeOnStart is set to true, starting a feature or hotfix with local changes will abort
  • Log: if low-level property log.graph.displayCommitDateForAuthor is set to true, it will show the author, but the commit (instead of the author) date
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare: Ignore Whitespace should not display completely unchanged blocks as changed
  • macOS: new launcher ignored command line parameter
  • Git:
  • Blame: memory leak
  • Edit Last Commit Message: internal error when in bisecting mode
  • Journal, Move & Squash: when dragging onto first pushed commit, no "already pushed" warning was displayed
  • Log macOS: right-clicking an unselected commit showed context entries for previously selected commit
  • memory leak when switching between repositories frequently
  • quotes around filter definitions, e.g. git-crypt, caused errors starting these commands
  • possible error "Raw log messge does not parse as log entry"
  • Refresh: internal error when opening repositories with core.worktree set
  • Hg:
  • Refresh: possible hang related to conflicts

New in SmartGit 18.1.0 (Apr 11, 2018)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Linux, Mac: link to directory could not be deleted
  • Git:
  • Various commands with dialog-based Log (Checkout, Merge, ...): graph filter options missing in File input field's drop-down menu
  • Git - Log:
  • possible internal error opening log in merging or rebasing state
  • added system property smartgit.nodecache.maxCachesToKeepInMemory to limit the log caches to keep in memory
  • Git - Investigate (DeepGit):
  • memory leak
  • wrong colors used for system-independent light theme

New in SmartGit 18.1 RC 3 (Apr 6, 2018)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Journal: switching repositories did not scroll to top position
  • GitHub/BitBucket: UTF-8 encoding should be used to read from REST API
  • Startup: new version check should only occur if "Automatically download and install updates" has been selected
  • Log:
  • Details: Copy Ref copied long instead of commonly used short ref
  • Possible internal error revealing a commit
  • Reveal sometimes not brought branch into visible area

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Journal, Log: if message is truncated, show it as tooltip
  • Git:
  • Push to Gerrit: offers "refs/drafts/master", too
  • Edit | Select Directory works on submodule directory, not parent directory
  • Edit | Select Repository Root, especially for selecting the submodule
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Changes view: no inline changes showed up for large files with line-ending changes
  • http(s) authentication: passwords might have been reset if using master password and background fetching is enabled
  • Git:
  • Files view, Size column: showed 0 for missing files instead of nothing
  • Log:
  • possible internal error in cache
  • possible long hang when selecting huge commit with many renames
  • Filter: possible long hang when filtering through huge commit
  • Tools:
  • Edit dialog: some input fields were applied though cancelled after error
  • Open: forked tools were forcefully terminated after 1 minute
  • possible internal error invoking long-running tool
  • OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • OS X: updated bundled Git to version 2.16.2

New in SmartGit 17.1.6 (Mar 28, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Log, Tools menu: allow tools that operate on the repository using ${repositoryRootPath}
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: when merging, stop processing if merge aborts due to file permission problems
  • Refresh: possible internal error for special characters in file name and wrong system charset
  • Stash Selection: contained redundant "--" when invoking "git stash push"

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • External tools: refresh selected file after invoking a tool, even if "Show output and wait until finished" is unselected
  • File Compare tools: support for optional ${leftLocalFile} and ${rightLocalFile} parameters that always refer to the file in the working tree, even if the repository content is stored in a temporary file
  • Git:
  • Log: Compare with Working Tree: improved GUI texts for 2-commit-compare
  • show warning for Git versions that are considered problematic, e.g. with GitHub
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: possible internal error related to auto-stashing
  • Changes view:
  • lines for line-ending only changed files may show up entirely modified (instead of inline-changed)
  • modified line-endings are not shown

New in SmartGit 18.1 Preview 7 (Mar 15, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Journal: option to just display author without date
  • converted too specific preferences options to system properties
  • Git:
  • Branches, Journal: performance improvements
  • Ignore: ability to select 3 ignore file locations: parent directory, root directory, excludes file inside .git directory
  • Log: - Git-Flow layout preserves columns from higher-priority parents
  • Rebase Head To: optionally rebase interactively
  • Preferences:
  • Tools: ability to export/import
  • way to edit system properties ("Low-level Properties") https://smartgit.userecho.com/communities/1/topics/330-
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare: internal error duplicating lines (Ctrl+D)
  • Find Action/Object: a few fixes
  • Open (external tool): did not provide ${repositoryRootPath}
  • OS X 10.13: starting SmartGit a second time caused OS X to "think" SmartGit would hang, preventing to shutdown
  • Git:
  • Edit Ignore: did not work if no local .gitignore file was present and no file was ignored
  • Ignore: repository-only option did not work for worktree repository; repository-only option did not add relative path
  • Journal: dropping before first (oldest) commit did not work; Squash: authorship selector showed commit instead of author time
  • Log: did not honor "smartgit.refLimit" configuration; ancestors of stashes were treated as pushed
  • Refresh: .git/info/exclude and .git/info/sparse-checkout were not honored for worktrees
  • Resolve dialog: resolved the wrong ours/theirs if "Swap for rebase" option was selected in the preferences
  • various commands: possible internal error related to bad .git/config file

New in SmartGit 17.1.5 (Feb 22, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Built-in SSH client: support for diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git: Log - Compare: too large font was used for comments
  • SVN: changing URL did not work reliable - disabled
  • Bitbucket: possible 401 authentication failures after redoing OAuth authentication while SmartGit is running

New in SmartGit 17.1.4a (Feb 20, 2018)

  • Compatibility with GitHub's discontinued support for weak cryptographic standards:
  • https://githubengineering.com/crypto-deprecation-notice/

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Compare: option to split leading/trailing additions or removals to separate blocks
  • Git:
  • Find Object: allows to check out found branch
  • Journal: Create Tag added
  • Repositories view: added "Rename" to context menu of directory
  • Log:
  • Branches:
  • "Compare with Current Branch" added
  • Reveal selects revealed branch
  • Commit graph:
  • truncated refs group shows tags in groups, e.g. "build-12045 ... build-12067"
  • Details:
  • "On Branches" is independent of selected refs for graph display and works for filtered logs, too
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Add Worktree: internal error if current directory name == branch name
  • Bisect: could not set HEAD to Bad after having set already to Bad
  • Branches: when tracking breaks, branch entry first shows up in gray and only later in red
  • DeepGit/Investigate: internal error selecting non-in-place change
  • Journal: Select Auxiliary Ref: allowed to select a remote HEAD
  • various commands: EOL correction modified even conflicting files
  • Log:
  • possible "missing unknown ..." error upon opening
  • scrolling down while 1st line was selected reset view position to top
  • Copy Message: for multiple lines, the order was arbitrary
  • Hg:
  • Log: initially showed up empty
  • Compare/Changes view:
  • internal error selecting binary file
  • possible internal error related to "Ignore Line-Ending Changes" option
  • inner-line changes sometimes not occurred up where they should
  • inner-line changes might be outdated after switching options
  • GUI:
  • Customize toolbar dialog: no icons were shown
  • the toolbar drop-downs (Windows, Linux) are now independent from the system tooltip-delay (delay can be configured by setting smartgit.toolbar.popupLongClickTimeout)
  • SSH:
  • potential internal error waiting too long with open password dialog

New in SmartGit 17.1.4 (Jan 31, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Ssupport for Git 2.16's SSH client detection ("The SSH server '-G' could not be found")
  • Git:
  • External Diff tools: set system property "smartgit.core.cat.applyFilters" to true to apply filter..smudge
  • System property "smartgit.executable.home" supports $USERPROFILE on Windows
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • after a fresh setup, "Mark as Favorite" notification comes up again every couple of seconds when dismissing with red x
  • Changes view, Index Editor: staging LF-only files converted it to CRLF in Index
  • Investigate: Open Log may result in internal error if Blame was not yet initialized
  • Refresh: internal error related to renamed files
  • Log:
  • Branches: toggling single branch in unselected category may add additional 2nd-level branch to selection
  • Changes: Compact Changes option did not work (regression)
  • User interface:
  • Preferences, Text Editor colors: ruler colors were not applied/stored
  • OS X: possible internal error related to connecting/disconnecting monitors
  • update check: did remind user to enable update check while it was disabled by system property

New in SmartGit 18.1 Preview 4 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Drag and drop: autoscrolling now starts immediately when the cursor is over the first or last line -> making it easier noticeable
  • Repositories view: command to select obsolete repositories
  • Setup, repository search: groups repositories according to directory structure
  • Git:
  • Bisect command with visual clues in Journal and Log
  • Clean command: remove untracked or ignored files/directories
  • Log:
  • ID filter matches SVN revisions, too
  • denotes rebasing state
  • Worktree support:
  • ability to add a worktree
  • ability to prune obsolete worktree information
  • adding a repository will add all worktrees, too
  • searching repositories will find all worktrees, too
  • Compare:
  • Apply Selection: handles special case where selection starts at source block without inner-line changes
  • coalesces nearby changes for inner-line diffs
  • improved block shifting, e.g. to not match across method boundaries
  • improved inner-line diff algorithm
  • option to ignore (only) leading whitespace changes
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Built-in SSH client: possible error message "The SSH server '-G' could not be found"
  • SVN: Log: filtering hid SVN column
  • Git:
  • Changes View: a renamed file was not compared correctly
  • Log: resetting filter made selected line not visible
  • OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • Update check (autoupdate) VM options have been unified

New in SmartGit 18.1 Preview 3 (Jan 9, 2018)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Changes view: mouse-wheel scrolling should change to single change, but not scroll the wrong direction
  • Help | Find Action and Help | Find Object (repository, branch, tag, commit)
  • log4j.properties is not used any more, but logger.properties
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • when filtering, the graph structure is kept
  • text for moved/renamed files shortened
  • Files view: "Unchanged Files" option moved to options menu
  • Log/Journal: email address is trimmed from invalid name
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GTK3: auto-disappearing popup, e.g. after command execution, were shown at random places and most time unreadable
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • File log: possible error "Node ... not found"
  • possible internal error when clicking with mouse
  • merge commits did not show up in gray anymore
  • internal error opening on merging root/file
  • Log/Journal:
  • possible internal error having more than 2 lines selected
  • selection background was wrong with light-theme
  • OS X: Cmd+click did not multi-select

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • XML settings files: more compact format making it easier, e.g., to add
  • Changes view:
  • when mouse-wheel scrolling over the connecting control between both sides
  • for a single changed block will scroll to the single change
  • scrolling up/down will only scroll up/down, not the other direction
  • Compare:
  • Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down will move the current line up/down
  • Git:
  • Cherry Pick/Revert: automatically pick primare parent changes for merge commits instead of showing hard to understand parent selection dialog
  • Log:
  • Option to fork merge-parent right-most (less wobbling but more crossings)
  • Log, Journal:
  • show the HEAD commit message in bold
  • option to show full author name/email
  • if HEAD is selected in the Branches view and HEAD points to a branch, this branch ref will be shown in the Commits view
  • Abort: aborting a merge will invoke "git merge --abort" instead of "git reset --hard"
  • external tools
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • External diff tools: did not inflate Git-LFS files
  • OS X: possible internal error related to disconnecting monitors
  • SmartGit process hangs if it was launched multiple times
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow, Finish: failed if feature contained submodule update
  • Log:
  • internal error for duplicate IDs
  • Mergable Coloring used wrong colors
  • possible internal error hovering over Commits view
  • showed remote HEADs (regression)
  • Log/Journal:
  • connector click-area broken
  • Refresh: nested root turning into submodule didn't trigger refreshing of the submodule

New in SmartGit 18.1 Preview 1 (Dec 13, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • GIT:
  • Background poll/fetch: periods are configurable in the preferences
  • 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
  • Push To dialog: replaces invalid ref characters like in other dialogs
  • Repository Search: ignores now directories with empty .git directory
  • 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
  • Log:
  • Details view: new category "on branches" for all refs where the commit is reachable from the primary parents
  • 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
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • 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
  • 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
  • OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • Support for Java 9

New in SmartGit 17.1.3 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Log: the count of the loaded commits is now hidden by default (set smartgit.log.commits.showLoadedCount to true to show it)
  • JIRA integration: option smartgit.jira.fixResolutionId to specify the issue resolution ID that should be used to mark issues as resolved
  • set smartgit.updateCheck.checkForLatestBuildVisible to false to hide Help | Check for Latest Build
  • Investigate: don't require DeepGit license for licensed SmartGit users
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Merge, Abort and others: could not be invoked if .gitmodules was in conflicting state
  • Review comments: not able to add first comment to file
  • Refresh:
  • include with relative path like ../.gitconfig did not work in .git/config
  • wrong display after creating orphan branch

New in SmartGit 17.1.2 (Nov 14, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Abort: made more clear that aborting will perform 'git reset --hard' discarding all local changes
  • Large company license handling:
  • added system property "smartgit.license.defaultPath" to change the location of default license file (instead of "/default/license")
  • if license file is expired, silently update license file from default license file location
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Background fetch: fetched even unregistered or inactive submodules
  • Commit: in merging state "Commit All Changes" for a modified, renamed file resulted in "pathspec did not match any files" error
  • Commit/Rebase Continue: did not abort in case of conflicts but committed them
  • Compare/Changes view: "as-is" files (.gitattributes: -text) were checked out with wrong line-endings
  • Git-Flow, Integrate: fixed in structions for system Git-Flow
  • Journal: under certain conditions 3 columns were used where 2 would have been sufficient
  • Refresh: possible internal error
  • Compare, Index Editor, ...:
  • Shift+Del did not cut any more (Windows, Linux)

New in SmartGit 17.1.1 (Oct 28, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • External Tools: support ${fileName}
  • more options for user/seat tracking
  • Git:
  • Commit: set VM option smartgit.commit.checkForValidUserNameAndEmail to false to disable the check for a user name and email
  • Log: shows repository name in title similar to repository window
  • menu items "Help | Check for New Version" and "Help | Check for Latest Build" are hidden now if smartgit.disableCheckForNewVersion is set to true
  • menu item "Help | Register" can be hidden by setting smartgit.registerEnabled to false
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare/Changes: internal error if selecting binary file and smartgit.compare.skipBinaryComparison was set to true
  • External Tools: directory tools were shown on closed repositories regardless of configured name pattern
  • Git:
  • Blame: internal error if empty file content was encountered
  • submodule related internal error
  • refresh:
  • internal errors if paths contained special unicode characters, e.g. Ä° (large i with dot)
  • refresh on window activation did not work if there were file monitor problems
  • infinite refreshing when opening repository at drive root, e.g. C:
  • GUI:
  • maximized state was not restored at correct coordinates/monitor
  • Windows: for configured zoom factor 250% the 100% zoom factor was be used

New in SmartGit 17.1 (Oct 12, 2017)

  • Other Changes:
  • SmartGit can be started with Java 9 if smartgit.startup.allowJava9=true is set
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Hg: could not open compare on "merged" files
  • SWT: IME-related exception, e.g. when clear Chinese text

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

  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • SmartGit requires the use of Java 1.8 it will reject to work with Java 1.9
  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git: Cherry-Pick and other commands: only fetch submodules if necessary (regardless of "Always fetch submodules" option)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow (System), Finish Feature: remote operations like fetching develop might not work
  • Cherry Pick with conflicts: showed "Success" popup

New in SmartGit 17.1 RC 3 (Oct 7, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Mercurial:
  • Support for Mercurial 4.3
  • GUI:
  • Default selection background color is customizable
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Refresh (Linux, Mac): possible performance problems due to bad ctime-check
  • GUI:
  • Branches, Files view: Pull should not be available in context menu
  • Open: was opening repository root instead of file
  • Repositories view: should not offer Ignore in context menu for closed repositories

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Conflict Solver: added toolbar button to make showing base file changes more obvious
  • Git:
  • Fetch can be added as toolbar button
  • Push: popup menu contains Push to Gerrit
  • Journal: increased default for common commits from 10 to 50
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • OS X bundle contained outdated Git version
  • Git:
  • Log: fixed problems in Files view and Changes view for displaying review comments with HiDPI monitors (4K)
  • Push and Pull commands were not available in Repositories view context menu for multi-repository selections
  • Stash: the "Include untracked files" option was not migrated correctly
  • GUI:
  • Fixed instructions for GitLab
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • DeepGit requires the use of Java 1.8 - it will not (yet) work with Java 1.9

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

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • git: Journal: Modify or Split Commit was broken

New in SmartGit 17.1 Preview 17 (Sep 21, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Journal: show more merged, e.g. between BEHIND and AUXILIARY
  • GUI:
  • Compare, Index Editor, Conflict Solver: ability to edit even files with mixed (inconsistent) line-endings, because it would take longer to wait for fixes for applications writing such files, e.g. Arduino IDE
  • Preferences: added option to restore all confirmation dialogs
  • Push: don't allow for branches tracking another local branch
  • Output dialog:
  • added context menu to message part supporting copy and word-wrap
  • support more minor warnings to be ignored, e.g. when "CRLF will be replaced by LF in ."
  • Refresh:
  • refresh on window activation should be more responsive now
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Background fetch: might produce output dialog on failure though it only should show a popup
  • Commit message: was not cleared sometimes after successful commit
  • JIRA: failed to resolve after having swapped commits
  • Journal: clicking to expand commits did not work reliable
  • Rebase (incl. Pull): auto-stashing changes might not work (regression)
  • Refresh:
  • internal error when having sparse checkout with .gitignore files
  • symlinks on Windows (created with mklink) always showed up as modified

New in SmartGit 17.1 Preview 16 (Sep 14, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Branches, Delete Ref: refined dialogs
  • Cherry-Pick: show progress, especially for SVN submodule update
  • Investigate: open log
  • Preferences: option to enable GIT_TRACE logging
  • Unstage: now also available for intent-to-add files
  • Journal:
  • Create and check out branch
  • improved display of collapsed nodes
  • expand collapsed commits by clicking the collapsed node
  • Submodules:
  • added option to repository settings dialog to push submodules on demand
  • Deactive command to mark inactive/unwanted submodules (relying on new Git "submodule..active" flag)
  • GUI:
  • preferences: remembers previously used (and still available) Git and Hg executables for easier switching between alternative installations
  • system dependent dialog button order can now be overridden by setting smartgit.dialog.buttonsRightAligned to true or false
  • Company setup:
  • if current license file is expired and a new one is available in the default directory, it will be copied automatically from there
  • "smartgit.properties" is copies from default-directory
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Push: pushing tag did not work (tag was not pushed)
  • Push/Pull: duplicated error message shown in command failed dialog
  • Refresh: renamed files in submodule had from source-path configured, e.g. resulting in displaying an empty HEAD content in the Changes view
  • Sync: JIRA issues were not resolved if first pulling then pushing and incoming changes were present, so a rebase was required
  • "Use pre-installed (system) Git-Flow" option was lost after setup
  • Tools:
  • did not show up any more for closed repositories
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • Windows, OS X: updated Java to version 1.8.0_144

New in SmartGit 17.1 Preview 15 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Windows, OS X bundles: upgraded Git to version 2.14.1
  • Git:
  • Changes: improved performance
  • Investigate: made dark-theme-capable
  • Distributed Review add-on: 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
  • 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 (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
  • 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)
  • GUI:
  • own toolbar implementation:
  • popup buttons will show the popup on mouse-release or long-click, instead of on mouse-down
  • buttons with additional popup menu will only show the popup on long click if the option smartgit.toolbar.longClickPopupOnly is set true
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Delete: could not delete dangling link (Linux)
  • Git:
  • Branches: Set Tracked Branch could suggest wrong branch
  • Changes: changed line-endings 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/cherry-pick failed with serious error for mild errors like conflicts now with a warning
  • SVN:
  • Refresh: internal error when opening SVN clone with submodules
  • 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

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Journal, Split Commit: apply the commit two times for easier splitting
  • Gerrit:
  • support for drafts and topics
  • Push To Gerrit: should be available from Repositories view
  • Push:
  • should behave more similar when invoked in main window and from Branches view/Log
  • Push dialog: option to "don't show again"
  • Stash:
  • improved stash management
  • option "Include untracked files" moved to Preferences
  • quick-stash actions (no message)
  • "Git executable is not valid."-dialog: make the link to stackoverflow clickable
  • GUI:
  • Compare, Apply Selection: allow to operate with selections outside blocks
  • allow to skip "SmartGit needs to check for updates" dialog at startup
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Branches view: opening a Log from right-clicking a branch did not reveal it (if View|Include Tracked Remote Branches is selected in Log)
  • Push:
  • pushing multiple branches (from Branches view) did not correctly evaluate force-flag
  • Refresh:
  • after commands: did not update renamed missing files
  • avoid useless scanning into ignored directories
  • duplicate submodule was displayed after replacing directory tree by submodule
  • obstructed conflicts should be reported
  • Stash:
  • automatic stash after commands: should honor "Include untracked" option
  • selection stashing: message was always "Created via 'git stash store'"
  • GUI:
  • Changes: applying something caused line separator changes to disappear
  • Commit, Select Message from Log: did not put focus into message editor anymore

New in SmartGit 17.1 Preview 13 (Aug 29, 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 Preview 12 (Aug 3, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Changes view: option to ignore line separator changes
  • Commit: if user.name or user.email are not set, a warning is shown
  • Log Repository: added separate menu item and toolbar button (with popup for log for selection)
  • Pull (multiple repositories): option to fetch tags
  • Journal:
  • added option to show more commits (temporarily until branch or repository is switched)
  • added system properties "smartgit.log.commitMessage.lineFeedSymbol" and "smartgit.log.commitMessage.shortOnlyTitle" (default: true)
  • Repository Settings:
  • completely reworked to edit effective repository values;
  • options from .git/smartgit.config moved to .git/config ("smartgit" section)
  • GUI:
  • date formatting: show weekday for previous week
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Git-LFS: recursive patterns like "image/**" were not properly interpreted
  • Investigate: fixed a few visual glitches, especially on HiDPI monitor
  • Output popup: showed success even if cherry pick or external commands failed
  • Proxy: if .gitconfig contained server-specific proxy, it was overridden by the proxy configured in SmartGit
  • Repository Settings: can't clear user settings, e.g. for GPG program
  • Changes view:
  • empty lines with different line separators did not show line separators
  • line separator was shown for last line of files that ended with "normal" character (no line separator) even if all line separators were equal
  • wrong index line separators files configured with text = auto in .gitattributed
  • Index vs. HEAD showed "EOL: Unix expected Windows" by default on Windows
  • toggling "Ignore Whitespace" hid line separator changes
  • GUI:
  • OS X: selected/toggled state of own toolbar was hard to notice

New in SmartGit 17.0.5 (Aug 2, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Improvements for installations in large companies
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Preferences, tools: editing tools with executables without specified path, but within the system PATH were rejected
  • Refreshing on window activation: did not refresh if file monitor was disabled
  • Git:
  • Conflict Solver/Resolve: "ours" and "theirs" IDs were flipped
  • Commit: when resolving ~ for commit template path, the Git executable HOME was not used
  • Pull: for untracked branches "Fetch tags" option was not configured to default value
  • Push: could not continue if configured JIRA server was not accessible
  • Log, Bitbucket integration:
  • "Could not find parent comment" error if parent comment had been deleted
  • "Inline comment #... has neither fromnor to-position set" error for file comments

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Author column: support for "LastName, FirstName"
  • GUI: completion popup now completes with and
  • Support for line-based line separators:
  • Changes view: should show them
  • Compare only shows the file content
  • Compare, Index Editor, Conflict Solver: prevent editing when mixed line separators were detected (in that case, please first fix the mixed line separators using a text editor)
  • Git:
  • Log: Files: distinguish between "Renamed" and "Renamed-Modified"
  • separated Save Stash to Stash All and Stash Selection
  • Stash All: ability to "Just Save" (= stash and re-apply)
  • Stash Selection: file name completion
  • Output view:
  • hidden by default
  • if hidden, shows just a plain auto-hiding notification or failure dialog with command output
  • preferences: removed options to show command and directory - they are always shown now
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Branches: remote branches inside directory-like sections showed section prefix
  • Investigate/DeepGit was broken
  • Push: JIRA issue were not resolved
  • GUI:
  • OS X: table columns in dialogs, e.g. commit, were to narrow by default
  • OTHER NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • OS X: updated Git to version 2.13.1 (if updating installation)

New in SmartGit 17.1 Preview 10 (Jul 11, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Branches view: section-nodes are sorted according to user choice (name, date), not always the last one
  • Changes view: added context menu item to open in Index Editor (at same position)
  • GUI:
  • Changes view: optional compact display (option can be found in Changes menu)
  • Author column shortening:
  • Foo-Bar Bazz now can be truncated to F.-B. Bazz or FBB can be disabled by setting smartgit.authorColumn.smartShortening=false
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • possible hang if increasing rectilinearity, combined with preserve parent order
  • Details: parents may not be displayed if not yet loaded into the graph
  • Refresh: possible "error-prone admin area configuration" for cascading, unrelated repositories
  • GUI:
  • accelerator input field: Ctrl+A selected instead of detecting accelerator
  • modifying accelerators kept previous accelerators in windows mapping
  • Ctrl+- and Ctr+Numpad- triggered the same commands

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git Log:
  • improved preserving of colors (requires Git-Flow to be enabled)
  • option to force preservering parent order (requires system property "smartgit.log.graph.layoutActions" set to true)
  • Hg:
  • support version numbers like 4.2+309-f40...
  • SVN:
  • Push: support for resolving JIRA issues
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Rebase: "Continue" button may add unexpected additional commit
  • Refresh: submodules might not be refreshed anymore after switching back from ignored submodule

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Hg: support for Mercurial 4.2
  • no dependency on GLIBC 2.14 any more, so it can run on 64-bit CentOS 6.*
  • Git:
  • Distributed Reviews add-on: option to read users from CSV file
  • Fetch (more): --unshallow option
  • Ignore: ability to ignore multiple files explicitly
  • Pull (multiple repositories): honors configured "fetch tags" default from single pull dialog
  • Rebase, Continue: ask how to handle untracked files instead of rejecting to continue
  • Refresh: minor performance improvements in case of many refs/tags
  • GUI:
  • the focused Changes view is treated like the Files view would be focused
  • own toolbar implementation to avoid a couple of toolbar bugs
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Branches: sectioned tags showed section name part (branches dodn't)
  • Distributed Reviews add-on: users may become deleted after editing
  • Log: Branch Delete was allowed on git-svn branch but shouldn't
  • Setup wizard: does not require email AND name any more
  • GUI:
  • Find and Replace dialog: Find buttons were not enabled when invoked on selected text

New in SmartGit 17.0.4 (May 18, 2017)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Checkout: added system property "smartgit.checkout.fixEols" to disable EOL correction (by setting to false)
  • added system property "smartgit.http.resetPasswordOnBackgroundOperationAuthenticationFailures"
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Linux: comments were painted over content https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=511844
  • Details: children enumeration did not include "incoming" connectors
  • possible internal error revealing a commit
  • Pull: possible bad command name ("no commit")
  • Hg:
  • Commit: possible internal error depending on commit message
  • Repository Search: Windows junctions were not resolved correctly
  • GUI:
  • error dialog used & to escape mnemonic
  • Bitbucket (Stash) config dialog: selecting the SSL client certificate checkbox did not make the input field visible
  • Setup wizard, hosting providers: unhelpful messages like "host" might be reported in case of unknown host
  • completion popup: possible internal error accepting a proposal
  • Review, Edit/Assign: user name/alias completion problems

New in SmartGit 17.1 Preview 7 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Setup wizard: only trigger repository search for new users (== no known repository)
  • Hg: support for version 4.1
  • Compare: Reload: preserves vertical scrolling
  • Git:
  • Branches view: reverse-digit-sorting is now configurable
  • Clone: remembers last target paths independent from local source path
  • Log: can be triggered now from renamed file (using the history from the deleted/missing partner)
  • support for "reverting state" (Refresh, Abort command)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Clone: with "Fetch all commits" deselected, but then "Fetch all Heads and Tags" selected again, still only the latest X commits are fetched
  • Log: clustering commits fixes
  • Interactive rebase:
  • failed for submodules
  • failed if core.commentChar was defined
  • could show timeout dialog

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • dark theme: table header color can be set (especially on Windows)
  • Git:
  • Branches/Tags: numbers in names are sorted reverse
  • Changes view: for renamed file shows HEAD of original file
  • Compare:
  • if invoked on a renamed file works like having the added/untracked and removed/missing file selected
  • if invoked on a submodule "file" shows same information as Changes view
  • Index Editor:
  • if Changes view is focused, the Index Editor is opened at the exact same place
  • for renamed files shows HEAD of original file
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Password store: master password is reset to empty if no (more) passwords are
  • present on exit
  • OS X: Home key did not move caret to first document position if appropriate option
  • in the preferences was unselected
  • Git:
  • Commit: error invoking compare (by double-clicking) for added file
  • Compare: if invoked on a renamed file (pair), the original was not always shown left
  • Log: Reveal even asked for Local vs. Tracked branch if both pointed to same commit
  • Preferences: changing "Detect renames" option did not refresh
  • Stage: error "pathspec did not match any files" for renamed,
  • modified files

New in SmartGit 17.0.3 (Mar 21, 2017)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Cleanup: removed option "And reset ('expire') reflogs now" because stashes might be deleted
  • Refresh:
  • for "Modified (EOLs only)" it now is distinguished between stageable and non-stageable
  • rename detection performance improvements for large .gitattributes and many untracked files
  • JIRA: VM property "smartgit.jira.closedStates" now supports states containing spaces in the name
  • error dialogs: set VM property "smartgit.ui.errorDialog.markdownSupport" to "false" to disable
  • markdown formatting
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • hangs on certain Linux systems (resolution and scaling factor dependend)
  • Save As: internal error if entering path "C:foo.txt"
  • Rebase: failed in case of commits without commit message
  • Refresh:
  • added/removed/untracked/missing files might not be reported if refresh was interrupted (and
  • resumed) by another operation
  • Refresh (Windows): possible error for read-locked files ("another process has locked a
  • portion of the file")
  • Hg:
  • Conflict Solver: did not show the proper information for renamed files
  • Refresh:
  • "Copied From" path wrong (pointing to file itself instead of copy source)
  • moved, conflicting file showed up as moved instead of conflicting
  • Distributed Review add-on: possible performance problems for large review repositories (due to
  • many refs)
  • GUI:
  • Clone: did not remember recently used URLs
  • Linux: tree/table tooltips hard to read
  • Windows installer bundle: missed dictionaries directory

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Clone: allow to specify the branch to check out (https://smartgit.userecho.com/topics/152)
  • DeepGit: various improvements and fixes
  • Repository/Directory popup: rearranged some menu items
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GUI:
  • OS X: disabling the parent window of a dialog caused to lose the focused control after the dialog had been dismissed
  • Tree controls: internal error if selected node has became unselected by collapsing a parent node

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Add Tag: removed redundant "Create annotated tag" checkbox http://smartgit.userecho.com/topics/343
  • Branches view:
  • sort branches *and tags* in sections http://smartgit.userecho.com/topics/307
  • uses more descriptive "incoming pull requests" instead of showing "(!)"
  • Log: ability to open file with same path (ignoring any rename) in external tool http://smartgit.userecho.com/topics/180
  • Changes view, Compare: Apply Line/Stage Line/Unstage Line: allow in (equal sized) change blocks
  • Conflict Solver: ability to apply both (Left before Right, Right before Left) http://smartgit.userecho.com/topics/64
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Compare: closing the window could interfere with a previously triggered Save causing internal error
  • speed-search popup was hard to read with dark theme

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GIT:
  • Add Tag dialog: added Ctrl+Space popup for filtering of existing tags
  • Journal:
  • Interactive Rebase: support Move & Squash (as in Journal) as for equally named commits
  • Modify and Split Commit: added Modify (for stopping after the commit) and Split (for stopping with commit changes in the Index) options
  • Log:
  • added Interactive Rebase for modifying the history of the head commit
  • COMPARE:
  • quick precompare distinguishes between binary equal and content equal (except of line separators)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GIT:
  • Blame: Age and Author highlighting were not dark-theme-aware
  • Changes view: fixed EOL display for no-converting case, e.g. core.autocrlf = false
  • Journal:
  • Checkout was available even for the HEAD commit
  • Interactive Rebase: internal error if multiple commits were removed
  • Stash files:
  • possible internal error
  • problems related to added and removed files
  • GUI:
  • Compare: markers for hidden inner-line changes hard to see on dark theme
  • full-screen and maximized/zoomed state were not distinguished
  • OS X: Enter Full-Screen has been moved from Windows to View menu

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitHub/others: more appropriate validation of certificates
  • Git:
  • Stash selected files:
  • added to Files context menu
  • if 1 or more untracked files are selected, a warning (i) is shown and allowed to proceed
  • GUI:
  • Compare, Conflict Solver: reworked Find, Find & Replace dialogs, added regular expression search, simplified next/prev handling
  • Notifications: more notifications with "Remind me later" option
  • Themes:
  • might extend using existing themes (extends=)
  • might switch editor theme (preferredEditorTheme=[light|dark])
  • added command line parameter --write-default-theme-file for easier creation of own themes
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Blame: internal error
  • Refresh:
  • on window activation refreshing failed if file monitoring was broken
  • after commands: might fail after performing tool operation
  • GUI:
  • OS X: it was possible to close a parent dialog immediately after the child dialog while the child dialog's close handler wasn't performed

New in SmartGit 17.0.2 (Feb 9, 2017)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Refresh: untracked/missing rename detection honors "core.jgit.similarityFileSizeLimit" to avoid out-of-memory errors
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • GitHub: possible endless refreshing
  • GitHub: updated default fingerprint
  • GitHub, other hosting providers: do not warn for changed fingerprint if it's a known, new fingerprint
  • undone "automatically set java.net.useSystemProxies=true (if not set) to improve auto-detection of proxies" because it causes to always use the system proxy, even if "no proxy" was configured in SmartGit
  • GUI (Windows): sort column was too dark in default bright theme

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • DeepGit: complete integration (no need for external DeepGit installation)
  • Changes view: if mixed line separators prevent staging/unstaging, an info is shown in the context menu
  • Pull, Fetch: offers to remove invalid fetch refspec from .git/config
  • Stash: works on selected files ()
  • Sync: updates toolbar button according to configured pull-push order
  • Quickly locate (matching) gitignore files ()
  • Commit:
  • if in rebasing-state and no committable change detected, Commit is not offered
  • if in rebasing-state Continue Rebase also works with unstaged changes
  • Journal:
  • batch process multiple changes (Rebase Interactive; )
  • command to split commits
  • Log:
  • Reveal can work on remote or local branches regardless of display options
  • removed "Include Tracked Remote Branches" from Branches view context menu because it also influences Commits view
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: Finish Feature might fail if develop had submodule changes

New in SmartGit 17.0.1 (Jan 27, 2017)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • automatically set java.net.useSystemProxies=true (if not set) to improve auto-detection of proxies
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git: - Commit, Stage, others: fails on renamed files in submodules with 'pathspec ... did not match any files' error - Log, Refresh: did not refresh if .git/-admin root was not located below working tree root (like for submodules)
  • SVN: - possible "URL mismatch" error
  • OS X: - possible UI hangs related to file monitoring - file table: clearing selection removed alternating row coloring - preferences, Edit Diff dialog: wrong radio button preselected
  • http(s) authentication: proxy passwords containing special characters like # did not work
  • default external tools were not recreated after removing tools.xml and restarting SmartGit

New in SmartGit 17 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Different input fields: Ctrl+Alt+Z performed undone; preventing entering Alt Gr+Z characters on some keyboards.

New in SmartGit 17 RC 3 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git: Refresh and Log: added system property "smartgit.renameDetection.similarityThreshold" determining how similar files must be to be detected as renamed (0..100)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Index Editor: when closing while Save is in process, another Save-Discard dialog popped up
  • Refresh (OS X): phantom modifications may remain until next full refresh
  • OS X:
  • maximized (== fullscreen) state was not preserved
  • spellchecker popup occurred 2 times (work-around for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=496446)
  • OS X 10.12: opening a non-fullscreen window from a fullscreen window did not switch to a new desktop (work-around for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=509741)
  • tree controls: incorrect painting of selection (work-around for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=510172)

New in SmartGit 8.0.4 (Jan 11, 2017)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git: Log (file): added system property "smartgit.log.stopAtAdditions" to stop at additions when setting to false
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare: possible syntax-related internal error
  • OS X: when performing drag and drop in a table, autoscrolling did not work
  • Git:
  • Log: memory leak related to hyperlinks created by .gitbugtraq
  • GitHub, Refresh: "Invalid paths" error
  • GitHub markdown: links like #254 at the beginning of a line were erroneously recognized as header
  • Pull: Submodule update did not preserve branch anymore
  • Hg:
  • Refresh: fails if branch, bookmark or tag name contained a tab character

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • main toolbar: the Abort button is added automatically
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Refresh:
  • after renaming/removing added (or rename-detected) file, refresh did not update this file
  • false-positive modifications (which only vanished after invoking "git status")
  • possible dead-lock for background refresh
  • Changes view:
  • "No more changes" popup was hard to read on Ubuntu
  • Current Line display: possible internal error while painting
  • some proxies did not work because of the unproxied DNS query

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

  • NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • The version has been renamed to 17 (for the first expected release in 2017)
  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Hg: support for version 4.0
  • Conflict Solver: allow to skip warning dialog notifying about not having resolved all conflicts
  • Git:
  • Pull: "remember as default" resets branch.rebase config options
  • Rebase: set system property "smartgit.rebase.disablePreserveMerge" to "true" to disable "--preserve-merges"
  • Git - Journal:
  • for local-only Git-Flow features, only commits from feature branch are highlighted as "ahead" (orange)
  • for Git-Flow features latest develop commit is denoted if develop isn't the auxiliary branch
  • option to hide common commits
  • Git - Log:
  • Cherry Pick: show (hidable) dialog if conflict occurred
  • when applying filter, the list is sorted by Commit Time, then Author Time
  • Git - Refresh, rename detection:
  • notification in case of long running rename detection
  • performance improvement in case of no missing files
  • option to disable detection or disable for missing and untracked files
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Mark as Favorite: possible dead-lock
  • Git:
  • DeepGit integration: shows error if failed to start DeepGit
  • Delete Tag: failed if one remote repository was read-only (e.g. upstream)
  • Log: Branches: "Show Content" on stash created entries in "Commit" sections

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Abort command/toolbar button to abort Rebase or Merge
  • Add Tag, Create Remote: replaces invalid characters with valid ones
  • DeepGit integration honors selected line from Changes view
  • Log: - added preferences option to allow opening multiple log windows for the same repository - Show Changes: - works on multi-commit selection in Commits view - in case of 2 selected files, ask whether to compare against each other or separately - separate text color for messages of merge commits (that usually are not that important)
  • Push to Gerrit: honor tracked branch
  • Refresh: shows renamed files; not just added-removed, but also new-missing ones
  • GUI: theming support; the default dark-theme can be selected in the preferences
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches, Push To: always preselected Custom Ref if it was used one time in the past
  • Log: - for a renamed file, when selecting 2 commits, the wrong file was selected in the Files view - Comments view: delayed "could not be revealed" error if Changes view was not visible
  • Check for Update at startup: possible internal error
  • Compare, Changes view, Current long lines:
  • often showed the wrong inner-line
  • did not repaint immediately when changing the editor theme changes
  • SSH: incorrect usage of user name from ~/.ssh/config
  • settings:
  • it could be possible that settings files were written with 00-byte content
  • incorrectly named settings file

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Autoupdate: no "Started downloading version x.y" anymore
  • Compare, Changes view: optionally show left and right current line one above the other
  • Confirmation dialogs: some confirmation dialogs, e.g. to switch branches, can be skipped by clicking "Don't show again" checkbox
  • Docking: when closing a view, a message is displayed how to show the view again
  • Log: customizable branch coloring, also for dark themes
  • Out-of-memory-instructions improved
  • Preferences: ability to show stored passwords
  • Git:
  • BitBucket server: for inaccessible pull requests, internal /refs/pull-requests/-refs are used to still work with them
  • BitBucket/GitHub: when fetching pull requests, trees are tried to merge for the virtual pull request commit
  • Cleanup: added VM property smartgit.cleanup.maxAllowedLooseObjects to configure the limit when SmartGit shows a needs-cleanup-notification
  • Journal/Log, Author column: "." is used as separator, too
  • Log: Copy actions are now available if command is running
  • Branches: ability to copy ref name or tag message (as part of the ref name), and more detailed rendering for push.default != tracking branch
  • Checkout remote branch:
  • suggest - as name if there are multiple remotes and is already existing
  • "tracking" checkbox is not cleared when editing the branch name, but only if a local branch tracking this remote already exists
  • FIXED BUGS::
  • BitBucket, GitHub: pull requests for branches with / in their name could not be fetched and used
  • Repositories: dragging repositories to other groups was broken
  • Git:
  • F2 while a file was selected did not open the rename file command
  • Log: refresh after commands was broken

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

  • NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • Java 1.8 is now required to launch SmartGit
  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Conflict Solver: ability to show Base file in separate left-base-right window
  • DeepGit integration: an installed DeepGit is detected and an appropriate menu item added
  • Git:
  • Branches: speed-search finds branches also in collapsed sections
  • Initialize: option to create initial empty commit for better flexibility
  • Log: Copy Messages and Copy ID work on multiple selected commits now
  • Push To: remembers custom ref radio button state
  • when in rebasing or merging state (after a conflict), the toolbar items for Commit and Discard should change ()
  • GUI:
  • Changes, Compare, Conflict Solver:
  • ability to select syntax highlighting language
  • current-line highlight in gutter only when focused
  • Repository:
  • "Open Repository in New Window" works for multiple repositories and groups
  • speed-search finds repositories also in collapsed groups
  • Open and Clone create new repository in same group as currently opened repository
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Bootloader did not work with Java 1.9
  • Git:
  • Log: refreshing comments from GitHub blocked other views like Files or Changes
  • GUI:
  • Commit dialog: file name completion was broken
  • dragging files to other applications did not work for the Relative Path column
  • Setup wizard: fixed too large space on Executables page

New in SmartGit 8.0.3 (Oct 12, 2016)

  • GIT:
  • Add Branch/Create Feature: allowed characters < or > and then failed
  • Journal: possible empty if reflog commits were not present in repository any more ("missing commit" error in log.txt)
  • Push: Configure tracking did not work when using push.default=matching
  • various commands: possible internal error in case of much output
  • Distributed Review add-on:
  • possible internal error related to closed pull requests
  • possible "could not fetch remote ref" for Distributed Review databases in submodules
  • SVN:
  • Add Tag: did not work for SVN repository
  • Commit & Push did not work for single-branch layout SVN clones
  • Upgrade: error "control files ... does not contain entry" trying to upgrade from SmartGit 6.5 to SmartGit 8
  • Possible internal error closing repository

New in SmartGit 8.1 Preview 2 (Oct 5, 2016)

  • NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • updated SWT to version 4.712
  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Journal, Copy actions: work on multiple selected lines
  • Hg: Support for version 3.9.*
  • GUI: Compare: shows current-line color in gutter
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • File monitor: on window activation a short time is waited before starting the refresh because other applications might store the files on window deactivation
  • Git:
  • Branches, Merge: was not correctly disabled for current branch
  • Refresh: possible internal error related to invalid paths on VM share
  • GUI:
  • Setup wizard: the user/email page might get disabled
  • spellchecker did not support contractions (doesn't, ain't, hasn't)
  • possible internal error in case of commands producing very much output
  • work-around for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501509 (Ctrl+Alt+ may be used to enter characters; such accelerators did not work if a text control was focused)
  • OS X: work-around for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501907 (first output node does not show up immediately)

New in SmartGit 8.0.2 (Sep 30, 2016)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Background fetch: property "smartgit.repositories.background.fetch.delay" was not honored
  • Commit/Stage: possible internal error for invalid file names (with respect to configured LANG)
  • Commit dialog, Select button: commit messages with tabs caused odd layout
  • https authentication: no username/password prompt for multi-line "authentication failed for" errors
  • Journal:
  • Edit Author failed for commit messages starting with #
  • might show obsolete branches in the "Show Additional Branch" popup
  • single commit on master showed up with "tracking" jigsaw part
  • Log:
  • Checkout: not always all branches on the commit were offered to check out
  • Details: parent were sorted in visual order instead of raw commit order
  • File log:
  • Files view: current item might not be preselected correctly
  • missing tree error for inlined submodules
  • Push:
  • internal error having remote.push=HEAD configured
  • GUI:
  • Compare: unindent (Shift+Tab) did not keep selection
  • some Ctrl+Alt+ accelerators fail if the focus is in a text control (reason: Ctrl+Alt+ is used with some keyboard layouts to enter special characters)
  • OS X: tree nodes did not occur immediately (especially in the Output view); added work-around for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=501907

New in SmartGit 8.0.1 (Sep 12, 2016)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GitHub: comment timestamp was not shown in current time-zone but GMT
  • Git:
  • Branches: misleading ahead/behind commit display in case of push.default branch != tracking branch
  • Commit:
  • false-positive "diverges remote branch" warning when trying to Commit&Push merge commit
  • flickering if spell-checker and line-length-guide want to highlight
  • Log: memory leak if having the Log window open for a long time
  • Refresh, File Monitor: smartgit.fileMonitor.excludeIgnoredDirectories=false does not work properly
  • Stash-on-demand: possible internal error related to progress display
  • GUI:
  • Compare: internal error apply selection/lines for inserted block at end of file
  • Commit: file completion did not show anything if nothing matching was found
  • general dialogs: navigation with tab-key or default button (on OS X) did not work correctly any more
  • SVN:
  • Journal: tracked/tracking display wrong (no jigsaw connection)

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Compare: improved inner-line change detection with emphasize on content (whitespace is less important for detecting similar blocks)
  • Compare, Index Editor, Conflict Solver: Next/Prev Change moves caret in all panes, not just the focused one
  • Git:
  • Push: forced push checks whether head ever was on remote branch (If a forced push failed because of incoming changes, just fetching the changes and trying to perform the forced push again was possible)
  • register URL handler for git:// and github-mac://
  • Commit: allow to commit while in rebasing state without continuing rebase
  • Branches:
  • Delete Tag: made harder to delete from remote by mistake
  • optionally hide remote-only branches in Git-Flow sections
  • Journal:
  • Edit Command Message: allows to edit HEAD commit message under same conditions as Edit Last Commit Message (e.g. merge commit)
  • optionally switch to any auxiliary ref by double-click
  • GUI:
  • Branches, Journal: if focused, accelerators invoke context-specific command
  • File completion input field: if upper-case character has been entered, an upper-case match is preselected
  • right-clicking issue links (e.g. in Journal, Log), shows URL-specific context menu
  • Output view: the command output should not be removed by too many output
  • Refresh:
  • more responsive, happens earlier
  • background refresh does not refresh up to 5 repositories not marked as favorite any more
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare, Index Editor, Conflict Solver: undoing changes out of view did not scroll the undone change into view
  • Git:
  • Files view, "State" column: incorrect sort order for submodule items, for unchanged submodules "As Index" is shown instead of "Unchanged"
  • Conflict Solver: did not properly 'switch' left and right for 'apply'-refase (invoked from outside SmartGit)

New in SmartGit 8.0.0 (Sep 1, 2016)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Log: should not fail in case of missing stash commits, but silently ignore them
  • Journal: fails to drag&drop commit between last incoming/behind and first common commit
  • GUI:
  • Startup: possible false-positive "upgrade not supported by license" error
  • Log: Edit | Copy Name was enabled but did nothing
  • Welcome dialog: "Show dialog..." checkbox was ignored when clicking Close

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Journal: option to toggle display of incoming commits
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Refresh:
  • internal error when using Cygwin symlink in the .git/-admin area
  • possible false-positive "The submodule at ... has an error-prone admin area configuration" warning
  • SVN:
  • revision -1 could be shown if a remote SVN had been added using git-svn to an existing Git repository
  • GitHub Enterprise:
  • OAuth was incorrectly available
  • GUI:
  • Compare: Ctrl+Tab did not move focus to other control any more
  • Windows: work-around for the SWT bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=445369 (toolbar loses font)
  • Windows bundles: under certain conditions Git might complain about missing DLLs

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Hg: VM property "smartgit.hg.executable.maxVersion" to force SmartGit accept more recent versions
  • SVN: VM property "smartgit.svn.enableGitFlow" to enable Git-Flow for SVN repositories
  • Compare: added tab indents/shift+tab unindents if text across multiple lines is selected
  • optional daily ping of customizable URL, e.g. to verify the actual user count, by defining the VM options smartgit.license.serverPing.url and smartgit.license.serverPing.method
  • Git:
  • Journal: detached HEAD commits show up in gray
  • Refresh: ability to dismiss warning about absolute submodule paths
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Journal:
  • possible unnecessary column swap of ahead and behind
  • curvy layout
  • commit not considered mergable for some layouts
  • Show Additional Branch popup menu was unsorted
  • Refresh:
  • possible false-positive "The submodule at ... has an error-prone admin area configuration" warning if paths differ only in case
  • GUI:
  • Tree control: internal error expanding parent-nodes with single-child nodes that automatically expand
  • Search Repositories: OK was not enabled after manual search
  • Conflict Solver configuration: titles patterns were rejected
  • Table, e.g. in Journal: double-clicks were triggered even for non-left mouse buttons

New in SmartGit 7.1.4 (Aug 2, 2016)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS;
  • SSH (internal client): improved error messages
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Git-LFS: discard failed with "unable to unlink" error
  • http(s) authentication: user names with backslash where handled incorrectly
  • JIRA: possible endless loop if server certificate was invalid
  • Distributed Reviews: duplicate initialization of remote database was not prevented which caused "merge base" errors

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • BitBucket server: support for "Clone in SourceTree" links
  • Git:
  • Commit: show file count
  • Journal:
  • do not distinguish between ahead and pushable commits to improve performance
  • performance improvements if commit times are not strictly topologically sorted, e.g. after a rebase
  • added tooltips
  • Log:
  • Branches: added Set Tracking, Stop Tracking, Rebase HEAD to
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • BitBucket (server): refreshing failed in case of inaccessible forks
  • Startup: new version check could report version 8 preview as incompatible (false-positive)
  • Git:
  • Branches: refresh icon for repository provider did not show up reliable
  • Repository Settings: entering user name/email and having "Remember as default" selected, did not work
  • Author table column: possible internal error if too narrow and name contained multiple spaces
  • Journal:
  • in case of feature branch, the develop-ref only showed up after pushing
  • possible strange layout without connections between local and remote branch
  • Log:
  • file log: internal error if file had been created in last changed commit
  • GUI:
  • OS X: clicking dock icon while preferences were open, put a blocked window to front

New in SmartGit 8 Preview 13 (Jul 26, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • renamed version from 7.2 to 8
  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Branch:
  • Delete: also cleans up .git/config fetch refspecs
  • Clone: when cloning without submodules, Repository Pull settings are now configured to not initialize new submodules
  • Journal: when merging from auxiliary branch, the branch is used for naming instead of the commit
  • Log:
  • Branches: added Push to Gerrit
  • Distributed Reviews: disallowed comments on file changes if it's not exactly a single commit diff
  • File log: performance improvements
  • Pull:
  • option to update changed tags ("pull --tags")
  • pull.rebase option had been reworked; remembers defaults per repository
  • Revert (Log, Journal): works on multiple commits
  • support for github-windows://openRepo/
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Journal:
  • possible internal error depending on commit structure
  • prevents showing auxiliary ref if it is equal to the remote branch
  • Log: drag and drop could schedule multiple comamnds while another command was running
  • Push/Push To: might fail for tags
  • Refresh:
  • possible error "Cannot read ....gitconfig" for certain at end of lines
  • background refresh might leave .git/index.lock remaining on shutdown
  • Submodules: Reset did not work on missing submodule if submodule initialization option was not set in Repository Settings
  • GUI:
  • Compare: Apply Lines might add instead of replace lines
  • when cloning using the URL handler, SmartGit was not brought to front
  • strange error message if autoupdate failed to connect to syntevo.com

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git - Journal:
  • speed-search (message and ID)
  • "Revert" is now also applicable for "ahead" commits
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Changes view: selecting an uninitialized submodules showed error
  • Cherry Pick: in case of conflict, the commit dialog opens empty instead of using the cherry-pick message by default
  • Git - Journal:
  • possible false-positive pushable warning if auxiliary branch is displayed
  • possible internal error for complicated merge structures
  • squashing anihilating commits might result in empty commit
  • Git - Refresh:
  • possible internal error in case of invalid reflogs
  • stashes were not showing up for Git worktrees
  • GUI:
  • Text editor color configuration: not all syntax colors had been read

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Compare: support for dark theme
  • Git-Flow, Finish Feature: commit message template can be configured by setting VM property smartgit.flow.finishFeature.message, e.g. to "Finished feature {0}."
  • parent-less dialogs, e.g. preferences and about dialog on OS X, show up on the monitor where other windows are shown
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git, Log, Save As: possible internal error saving to windows drive root
  • internal error launching without configured Git executable, e.g. launching the first time
  • Compare: changing color options in the preferences did not always redraw immediately

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • Checkout: for a remote branch warns in case the local branch is diverged
  • Push to Gerrit (depends on .git/hooks/commit-msg and a remote with server>:29418)
  • Changes: shows details for File Mode only changes
  • Journal: considers path (merge commits) from ahead to behind/auxiliary to better reflect the merge structure
  • Log:
  • Commits: Checkout on a tracked remote branch offers to check out tracking branch
  • Create Pull-Request (Bitbucket, GitHub, Stash): remembers target branch
  • Remote | Properties: edit push URL (if already present in .git/config)
  • Spellchecker:
  • always uses "my-words.dic" in settings directory for storing own words no GUI option any more)
  • suggests name when adding dictionary file
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • "obsolete" tracking branch may not have been updated properly wrong ahead/behind when merging
  • Changes: possibly outdated EOL-details in title
  • Distributed Review: always fetch submodule review meta data if initialized
  • Journal:
  • merge connector forked to wrong side
  • Move & Squash: may fail with "empty commit message" if commit message starts with #
  • unexpected curving
  • Mark Resolved dialog: branch name start should not be lower-case
  • Refresh (Windows): global core.excludesfile was not honored if %HOME% differed from %USERPROFILE%
  • Stash (automatically): fix for submodules
  • possible authentication problems if credential.helper is configured, but credentials are not yet known
  • Hg:
  • Refresh, Log, ...: broken if defaults.log=-f was configured
  • BitBucket: auto-generated credentials (using OAuth token) didn't work if port was part of remote URL
  • Compare: phantom differences in lines (curly-brace related)

New in SmartGit 7.2 Preview 9 (Jun 10, 2016)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Branches: shows information for local branch with "broken" tracking
  • Log: performance improvements in case of many tags for file logs
  • Journal:
  • ability to checkout develop
  • Date column with smarter shorting if column is too narrow
  • Log-like coloring
  • added option to use different coloring for auxiliary branch
  • Compare:
  • Apply Lines allows to apply multiple lines for added blocks
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Commit: for amend-Commit & Push it is not offered to replace remote branch
  • Journal: possible internal error
  • Push: false-positive warning about non-fast-forward for merge commits
  • Hg:
  • Journal: "The command has been aborted because of outdated commits" error
  • GUI:
  • tree-control related internal error, e.g. when moving repository to new group
  • Branches view: misaligned layout of hosting provider icon on OS X
  • Updater dialog (OS X): bold font causes text to move and be truncated
  • Log, Commits: the comment border of a selected line looked ugly

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Log: option to open submodule log (not just submodule pointer)
  • Journal:
  • following context commands are supported (especially useful with a selected auxiliary branch): reset, cherry-pick, merge, rebase head to, revert
  • improved layout, e.g., if auxiliary branch is ahead of HEAD
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • SVN: Push: possible internal error
  • GUI: internal error collapsing/expanding tree node
  • Git:
  • Journal: auxiliary branch not showing up after merge anymore and possible intersection of merge commit's stub with connector to previous commit
  • Repository | Settings: option "Sign all commits" was incorrectly written
  • bundled new Git version (Windows): renamed /etc/post-install tasks because they usually fail because of file system permission problems

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Background Fetch:
  • shows executed command and path
  • should be enabled by default for the currently open repositories (because the Journal can show incoming commits)
  • Cherry Pick: Git's cherry-picking state is detected; support for aborting
  • Log: performance improvements for many refs
  • Push: forced-push-delay now needs to be enabled by setting smartgit.push.delayOnForceDialog=true
  • Refresh: symbolic links (junctions) are now also supported on Windows
  • updated bundled Git to version 2.8.3 (Windows) and 2.8.1 (OS X)
  • GUI:
  • Branches view: performance improvements for many refs
  • Author columns are shortening if too narrow to show full name
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • invalid displayed ref count if refs were shown in sections
  • Changes view showed an error for selected uninitialized submodules
  • Index Editor: failed to write index for UTF-16 encoded files (with misleading error regarding mixed line endings)
  • Journal:
  • Move, Move & Squash did not show warning about modifying pushed commits
  • Push Commits was broken
  • having set auxiliary branch to , it was reset to default, e.g. develop, after restart
  • concave jig-saw-puzzle part showed invalid color if row was selected
  • showed tracking jig-saw-puzzle part for non-tracking branches
  • possible non-existent parent connections were shown
  • columns were too narrow when opening the first time
  • Log:
  • commits might still not alight properly to left for higher-priority branches
  • moving annotated tag by drag and drop lost annotation
  • unexpected curves
  • Push: no force check when using push.default=matching and having no tracking configuration for current branch
  • Hg:
  • directory log was broken for Mercurial 3.8
  • SVN:
  • Branch, Delete: incorrectly offered to delete tracked/remote branch which failed anyway
  • GitHub: "Could not connect to repository" error
  • GUI:
  • (file) completion did not accept keypad-enter
  • some table columns (e.g. in Commit dialog) were too narrow by default on HiDPI screens
  • internal error launching SmartGit with Java 1.8

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Cherry pick: uses "commit" option because this preserves author/date even in case of conflicts
  • Changes view: sometimes the changes are not appliable in both directions
  • External tools: default external tool "Fast-forward merge" without confirmation dialog
  • Push: forced-push confirmation dialog now waits a few seconds as reminder
  • Repository Settings: added GPG configuration options, e.g. to sign commits
  • Submodule: Changes view shows details about selected commit(s)
  • Journal:
  • added Reset as context menu item
  • optionally shows one additional branch
  • remembers table column widths
  • Hg:
  • Mercurial 3.7 3.8 are supported now
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Tray: no HiDPI-icons were used
  • Git:
  • Commit: "Bypass commit hook" option did not work for all commit variants
  • Log: pending octopus merge was not properly showing up
  • Push-To-dialog allowed forced push even if not enabled in preferences
  • Journal:
  • Date column was missing
  • pushed commits could not be modified after preferences option had been toggled
  • pushable (purely local) commits were falsly rejected as pushable

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • http(s) authentication: if a credentials helper already is defined, SmartGit does not use its own credential storage
  • Compare/Conflict Solver: Apply Line(s)
  • Git:
  • Add Tag: option to sign annotated tag (requires installed GPG agent)
  • Commit: option to skip hook; if necessary, forced push is detected
  • Outgoing view: renamed to Journal; shows simplified, compact current branch structure with incoming and pushed commits
  • GUI:
  • Files view: added "Relative Path" column as replacement for "Name" and "Relative Directory"
  • replaced several dialogs with "Xxx + Remote" buttons with checkbox
  • Preferences, Authentication: Del key now deletes selected credentials
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • fresh installation did not contain any default tools
  • Compare/Conflict Solver: possible internal errors related to "Apply Selection"
  • Git:
  • renaming directory: might fail if only changing the case (Windows)
  • Log: possible internal error related to priorities
  • Refresh: '?' in .gitignore did not match line terminators
  • submodule refs may become reset unexpectedly

New in SmartGit 7.1.3 (Apr 25, 2016)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Hosting provider configuration: when pasting the token, leading and trailing whitespace characters are ignored
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Preferences, Tools, Edit: "Handles: ( ) Files ( ) Directories (*) Both" was always selected
  • Repositories view: drag and drop of directories did not work (OS X)
  • http(s) authentication: user names with backslash were incorrectly parsed

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • · Spell checker: doesn't mark file names or directories as invalid
  • Pull/others: "remote error: invalid username or password" is recognized as authentication failure and hence the password needs to be entered again
  • Refresh: added VM property smartgit.branch.remoteBranchExcludeRegEx to specify remote branches that should be skipped for performance reasons
  • added View | Show Files From Submodules
  • · Git
  • Commit: remembers previous messages in commit-notes history
  • Branches view:
  • ability to delete current branch (which will check out the current branch's commit instead)
  • options to configure display of refs
  • Log:
  • tries to preserve the selected file, even after switching to a different commit
  • improved layout algorithm
  • set VM property smartgit.log.graph.layoutAction=true to provide layout tweak options
  • · Preferences:
  • Welcome dialog: show only optionally
  • Tools: ability to recreate default tools
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • · Spell checker: default dictionary was not found on OS X
  • · Git:
  • GitHub/Git-LFS: "unexpected end of JSON input" when using internal SSH client
  • Refresh: "~" as part of clean/smudge filter was not expanded correctly (OS X/Linux)
  • Log:
  • Details (Linux): right-click cleared selection
  • pushable merge sources might have shown up as pushed
  • · Hg:
  • Refresh: internal error if branch had \n in its name
  • · SVN:
  • Push: pushing branches with slashes is now rejected
  • · File completion:
  • double-click appended full path
  • suggestions could contain duplicates when trying to commit same named files from different directories

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Add Tag: the Push option now only pushes this tag, not all refs
  • Branches:
  • moved options from preferences to options popup menu
  • optionally hide tracked remote branches for Git-Flow refs
  • show ahead/behind information even if branch is non-tracking but
  • has a similar named remote branch
  • Commit:
  • spell checking
  • the dialog allows to select between multiple possible commit
  • messages, e.g. default merge message or previous messages
  • Push: uses --force-with-lease for checked forced push
  • Reset (hard): allows to stash local changes, not just discard them
  • Select Issue from JIRA: added speed-search
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Log: misleading error message when trying to open log for empty repository
  • Push: remote..push had no precedence over push.default
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error in case of invalid refs
  • possible internal error in case of invalid stash-reflogs
  • SVN:
  • Branches: ahead commits were broken
  • GUI: after Setup wizard no main window occurs
  • Java 1.9 preview: error about invalid parameter -XX:MaxJavaStackTraceDepth=-1

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

  • NOTEWORTHY CHANGES:
  • updated SWT to version 4.614
  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Conflict Solver: if file is considered binary, it though can be forced to be treated as text
  • Fetch More: support for multiple remote..fetch configurations
  • Push (Gerrit-support): support for remote..push configuration
  • JIRA:
  • Select Issue dialog: option to reset query to default
  • Log:
  • File, Directory log: memory consumption reduced significantly for large repositories, e.g. Linux Kernel; added VM option "smartgit.log.onlyHead"
  • Branches:
  • better support for multi-level branch hierarchies
  • ahead commits are not evaluated if push target != merge source
  • Hg:
  • Support for Mercurial 3.7
  • GUI:
  • compare/Conflict Solver: ability to apply multiple lines to other pane
  • rewrote (file) completion
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • SVN:
  • Checkout: line ending correction did not work properly if "eol" attribute was set, but "text" wan't

New in SmartGit 7.1.2 (Mar 11, 2016)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches: excessively long multi-line tag message could cause freeze
  • BitBucket: fetching pull requests from different repository might fail
  • Commit:
  • possible internal error in file completion
  • Commit Message view: caret reset to first char upon refresh
  • Compare: for external compare the title values were not set correctly
  • JIRA:
  • Push did not succeed if JIRA authentication was cancelled
  • Select dialog: misleading instructions
  • was not available for commercial demo license
  • Log:
  • Compare: might produce an internal error for added/removed files
  • Details view: "on branches" did not show correct branches for file logs
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error related to "unexpectedly" modified files
  • possible internal error when using .gitattributes with "!filter" configuration
  • Mercurial:
  • version 3.6.* was rejected though it works

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Add Branch and others: replace invalid characters with customizable valid char: smartgit.branch.replaceInvalidCharsWith=_
  • Bitbucket, GitHub: support for URLs like [email protected]:accountname/repository.git
  • Push, JIRA Resolve:
  • ability to configure which branch to (not) check $ git config branch. smartgitJiraResolve false
  • shows issue description
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Changes preview: reduced thread-creation when scrolling file table with keyboard
  • JIRA: failed if bugtraq configuration contained invalid project keys
  • SSH: values from ~/.ssh/config were not applied correctly
  • Stash (on demand): don't try to stash submodule changes as this doesn't work

New in SmartGit 7.1.1 (Feb 17, 2016)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • JIRA: added VM option "smartgit.jira.resolveOnPush": set to false to disable this feature
  • Refresh: shows notification on Linux if ignored directories will be excluded from file monitoring
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Bitbucket, GitHub: possible OAuth authentication problems if repository URL contained user@
  • Branches view: current-branch character was rendered ugly on Windows < v8
  • error "Environment variable smartgit.logDir undefined" on some systems under special conditions
  • Refresh: .git might have been excluded from file monitoring on Linux
  • Log:
  • Branches: toggling remote develop may not work
  • Compare: no helpful temporary file names were used
  • Hg:
  • Pull/Push failed for http(s) repository access
  • Refresh: possible internal error for invalid tags
  • strange errors if Hg executable was incompatible

New in SmartGit 7.1.0 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • Support for HiDPI-Screens, e.g. 4k-Monitors:
  • Instead of blurred or tiny fonts and images you now get a crisp display when using a HiDPI-screen like a 4k-monitor.
  • JIRA Integration:
  • When committing files, you may select open issues from Atlassian's JIRA and use it as commit message. When pushing commits, SmartGit will determine affected commits and offer to resolve them for a certain version in JIRA.
  • Support for Git-LFS:
  • The status of GIT-LFS-managed files is showing up correctly now, completing the GIT-LFS integration (GIT-LFS commands were already working prior to version 7.1).
  • GitHub and BitBucket OAuth support:
  • For GitHub and BitBucket, the OAuth web flow has been implemented: you won't have to give your passwords to SmartGit anymore but instead use access tokens which have a tailored set of permissions.
  • The GitHub repository credentials management has been simplified and based upon these access tokens, too.
  • Detection of Problematic Submodule Configurations:
  • If your submodules are configured to use absolute paths, it might be tricky to rename or move the repository to a new location. SmartGit can detect and fix this by changing the absolute to relative paths.
  • Change Order of Sync Command:
  • Often requested, now built-in: starting with SmartGit 7.1 you can define whether Sync should first push, then pull or first pull, then push.
  • Simplified Repository Group Organization:
  • You can organize repositories in groups since a couple of SmartGit versions. Usage is now more intuitive - right-click the repositories and select the target group (or create a new one).
  • Convenient Registration of Subscription Licenses:
  • Up to SmartGit 7 is was necessary, when registering SmartGit, to always use the latest subscription license file. Now it's also possible to register an outdated license file of an uncancelled subscription and have SmartGit automatically fetch the latest file.

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

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log (File): did show GitHub icon though integration is not expected to work for non-repository logs

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Proxy: added VM option smartgit.proxy.configureForGit to avoid setting Git proxy but have the https proxy in SmartGit configured to access, e.g. autoupdate
  • JIRA integration:
  • more specific error messages
  • support for non-classic workflows
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git-Flow: hotfixes were not tagged on master
  • Index Editor: odd connector display on HiDPI monitors
  • GitHub, Git-LFS: various operations might fail to connect to GitHub
  • JIRA:
  • possible endless loop when trying to access http server using https
  • Push:
  • master password was requested while the dialog was showing
  • did suggest to resolve issue which were already pushed to non-feature branch
  • resolve dialog did not occur on Commit & Push

New in SmartGit 7.0.5 (Jan 25, 2016)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Cherry Pick, Append SHA: appended 2 SHA lines
  • Commit+Amend, Undo Last Commit did not work on detached head
  • Push: internal error pushing branches with non-remote tracked branches
  • Refresh: internal error in case of corrupt .git/index file
  • SVN:
  • Remote, Delete was enabled though not possible

New in SmartGit 7.1 RC (Jan 25, 2016)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Log, Changes view: shows file change state in title (modified, added, removed)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log: possible internal errror displaying meta refs
  • Setup: did not preselect "license" file from "default" directory

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Clone: when cloning only a single branch, "forced" refspec (+) is created
  • Fetch More: remote..fetch refspec is adjusted for newly fetched branches
  • JIRA:
  • shows a reasonable warning in case of too-old JIRA version
  • only available in commercial edition
  • SVN:
  • VM option "smartgit.svn.defaultCommitMessage" to customize, e.g. tag creation message
  • Log (Commits view):
  • only multiple refs are truncated, not single refs
  • Updater:
  • VM option "smartgit.updater.directory" to customize updater's working directory (e.g. if launching executables is not allowed in all directories)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Logging: commands with lot of parameters and output lines cause ~current-log.*.tmp to grow excessively

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

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GitHub, BitBucket: integrations don't work when using uppercase hostnames
  • Git:
  • Changes view:
  • "Error: ojbect must not be null" when having core.autocrlf=input and selecting a binary file
  • erroneous display of expected line separators with core.autocrlf=input or if file is considered binary by Git, e.g. UTF-16 encoded ones
  • Push: possible internal error when having multiple remotes defined
  • Updater:
  • on startup an update check is forced if beta is too old
  • OS X: *.pyc files may remain

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GIT:
  • gitconfig: support for branch..pushREmote and remote.pushDefault
  • JIRA:
  • commit message selection support added to Squash, Edit Commit Message,
  • Edit Last Commit Message
  • ability to resolve issues has been moved from commit to push
  • Outgoing: shows pushed feature commits only if they are allowed to be
  • changed by the user (preferences option)
  • Refresh:
  • warn in case of non-relative submodule configuration
  • Linux, OS X: detect problematic configurations related to symlinks which will make refreshing fail
  • SSH: reports error instead of hangs if Git requires input
  • Submodules: notification if correct but absolute path is used instead of
  • relative path (which would cause problems renaming/moving the repository)
  • HG:
  • Discard: uses "hg update --clean ." to abort grafting state
  • SVN: uses SmartGit's proxy configuration
  • Check for New Version: notifications about major upgrades can be postponed
  • by 7 days
  • Conflict Solver: ability to pass speaking names
  • External Compare, Conflict Solver: better names for temporary files
  • Windows, OS X: updated Git to version 2.6
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GIT:
  • Changes view: autocrlf=input not handled properly
  • Commit: if the commit.template file contained a comment, empty lines were
  • stripped from the commit message
  • Git 2.5 worktree-related fixes
  • Git-Flow: releases should be tagged on master
  • HG:
  • Commit: re-added files that were marked for removal (but available locally)
  • Deleting bookmark: checked out bookmark got lost
  • External tools (Windows): environment variable HOME was changed
  • Out of memory error: misleading pointer to smartsvn.vmoptions
  • GUI:
  • some dialogs did not show / or \ but treated them as markup
  • some horizontal checkboxes were misaligned with their label on Linux

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • File Monitor: honors ignores to avoid overflows
  • Git:
  • Sync: added preferences option to change order of pull and push
  • Commit, JIRA integration:
  • Get Issue From JIRA remembers now the sort order
  • allow to resolve in multiple versions
  • support for Git's commit.template
  • Cherry Pick: replaced preferences option "Append source SHA" with option for each cherry-pick dialog (except for dragging commits in the Log)
  • "Allow modifying pushed commits": if unselected, "Undo Last Commit" and "Edit Last Commit Message" will reject to operate on pushed commits
  • GUI:
  • About dialog, Licensee page: ability to Register
  • Repository window:
  • simplified moving to other groups using the context menu
  • if all repositories of a group are opened, the group name is shown in the window title
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GitHub: authentication problem "remote: Repository not found"
  • GitLab: possible internal error
  • Git:
  • Branches: possible internal error when refreshing
  • Distributed Reviews: possible internal error when creating pull request
  • JIRA integration: archived versions broke sorting
  • Refresh: possible update problem because file monitor events were collected too late
  • Log:
  • possible internal error when opening
  • anchored commits always shows up as pushed
  • Hg:
  • Clone: internal error having run through wizard before for Git repository
  • and stepping back
  • Log: closing an arbitrary branch head did not restore the checked out
  • bookmark
  • GUI:
  • a full toolbar caused the window to not be made smaller
  • Register dialog on startup: possible internal error when it closed automatically
  • Moved to Trash on directory: showed error though successful
  • sometimes ugly wrapped error dialogs
  • OS X:
  • File Monitor: problems detecting change after directory rename
  • odd-looking notification icon
  • updater has no dock icon
  • fsNotifier was considered as changed
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • at least Git 1.8.2 is required

New in SmartGit 7.0.4 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Bitbucket Server 4.0 support
  • SVN: added system property smartgit.svn.scanSubmodulesForNonSvnParents
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Startup: recurring "passwords could not be read" problem
  • Branches: stashes only showed up if .git/refs/stash file was existing
  • Git:
  • Refresh: false-positive modifications when using 64-bit Git executable
  • External tools (Windows): might not work properly when using 64-bit Git executable
  • Git - Log:
  • possible internal error if repository has GitHub and BitBucket remote and both hosting providers are configured
  • Reveal Commit: did not work reliable for old commits
  • Hg:
  • Compare 2 files: blocked the repository
  • Log (Directories): crazy graphs due to missing merge commits

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • automatically create the user's smartgit.vmoptions file
  • Subscription: allows to register valid, but outdated license fetching latest one
  • Git:
  • Refresh: support .gitattributes "ident" keyword expansion ("$Id$")
  • Hg:
  • Compare: allow to invoke for conflict file
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • External tool: possible assertion showing a directory chooser while window has been closed while tool still running
  • Hg:
  • Resolve dialog: files were not preselected

New in SmartGit 7.1 Pre 6 (Nov 6, 2015)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Support for high resolution graphics (HiRes, HiDPI)
  • smartgit.vmoptions (Linux, Mac): support for "path=" property
  • Fixed Bugs;
  • Refresh: internal error if .git link file contains CRLF
  • View|Show Staged Files: if unselected, certain conflict files were not shown

New in SmartGit 7.1 Pre 5 (Oct 30, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Distributes Reviews: pull requests should show "Last Updated By" information (in tooltip)
  • Git:
  • Branches: tracked remote features should show up in Features category (not in remote), denote tracked remote branches (by gray name)
  • bugtraq: support for multiple "projects" per issue tracker (entry)
  • Log, Files: when invoking Show Changes on an added/removed file pair, compare them against each other
  • Refresh: smudge/clean filters (from .gitattributes) should be honored (necessary for Git LFS)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • BitBucket: refresh should be tolerant in case parent repository can't be accessed
  • Restart: possible internal error
  • Git:
  • Git Flow: for Finish Feature, remote branch isn't removed even when selected
  • Worktrees: repository might not work anymore after upgrading to Git 2.6
  • Outgoing View, Stage Hunks: "Invalid boolean value: core.autocrlf=input" error

New in SmartGit 7.1 Pre 4 (Oct 8, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • BitBucket Server:
  • BitBucket Server 4.0 support
  • the SSL client certificate is hidden by default
  • Git:
  • Fetch More dialog: added speed-search
  • Log:
  • Branches: new "Commits" category for revealed/anchor commits
  • Push: allow to push with selection in Graph view
  • GitHub:
  • improved username/password selection for relative submodules
  • request API token using OAuth without requiring password
  • option to use OAuth token directly without creating additional credentials
  • SSH option also present in non-commercial edition
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GUI: dialog "SmartGit requires a restart" too narrow after sleep
  • Git:
  • Branches: Stashes only show up if .git/refs/stash file is existing
  • Log, Branches: toggling stash on already "lost" head did not show up the
  • stash until refreshed

New in SmartGit 7.1 Pre 3 (Oct 1, 2015)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Bitbucket: OAuth authentication
  • Git:
  • Background processes don't show process-hanging dialog, but silently kill
  • Commit dialog, JIRA integration: show warning in case of slightly invalid bugtraq URL
  • KDE:
  • /usr/bin/konsole is used as terminal for default external tool
  • if oxygen-gtk theme is detected, the launcher script aborts with an error message
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Clone/Init (OS X): warning "template not found in /usr/local/git/share/git-core/template" was shown because GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR was not set
  • Refresh: internal error opening bare repository
  • Stage Lines: CRLF was not preserved in repository (special core.autocrlf handling)
  • Changes preview: if single modified file is committed (or discarded), the next modified file was selected but it was not scrolled to 1st change
  • Repositories: the tooltip of a cloning repository showed "Repository is missing"

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • GitLab: show namespace instead of owner
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git
  • External tools: some Git specific tools were not added on fresh install
  • hanging background processes if no master password had been entered
  • BitBucket: enhanced authentication broken
  • GitLab: only showed 20 repositories
  • updated SWT to hopefully fixing https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=452141
  • Windows: incomplete JRE

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Commit: JIRA integration
  • Windows: reliable way to kill kill Git process including sub-processes
  • Worktree support for Git 2.5
  • added Repository | Search Repositories to search repositories checked out outside SmartGit
  • startup: check for new version to prepare rolling release
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • various commands: possible problems with refs/remotes/git-svn and similar branches
  • Hg: strange versions like 3.0+3 were not detected as too old
  • GUI:
  • Compare connector: scrolled 2 positions on Windows 10
  • a notification could cause the layout to "jump"
  • Setup wizard: did not check correctly hg version the 2nd time (after having replaced the hg binary)

New in SmartGit 7.0.3 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Log, Save As: creates missing parent directory
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Atlassian Stash: for SSH clones pull requests might not show up
  • Authentication:
  • authentication failures with http(s) simply failed instead of asking for credentials
  • Commit:
  • File name completion: possible internal error after deleting all text and then accepting the suggestion
  • Git:
  • Executable configuration: internal error if git-gui.exe was specified instead of git.exe
  • GitHub:
  • line comments were created with wrong text
  • wording for 2FA dialog improved
  • Log: possible internal error if repository had GitHub and Bitbucket remote and both hosting providers were configured
  • GitLab:
  • underscores _ were rejected as token characters though valid
  • GUI:
  • Branches view: hosting provider icon did not show up reliable until resize
  • Edit | Customize (Linux): table rows became too flat after changes
  • Outgoing: title (count) was not properly updated when switching to bare or broken repository
  • Refresh:
  • possible hang (jgit infinite loop)
  • Updater:
  • endless loop if updater temp directory could not be cleaned up
  • Windows: update failed checking for read-only file system if SmartGit was installed in root directory (Java bug?)
  • certain failures could produce tons of bug*.zip files

New in SmartGit 7.0.2 (Sep 10, 2015)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Atlassian Stash support: added "Use SSH instead of HTTPS" option
  • Hg: http-access is now more robust in case of errors
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Atlassian Stash support: client certificates did not work
  • BitBucket support: cloning repositories with space in name did not work
  • Git:
  • Log: toggling categories like "origin" broken (regression since 7.0.1)
  • Windows: launchers contained invalid dpiAware manifest entry

New in SmartGit 7.0.1 (Sep 9, 2015)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • External tools (Windows): automatically fix "Open Git-Shell" for newer Git versions like this bundles with SmartGit 7
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches, Push: failed for multiple selected branches with different tracked remotes
  • Changes view: sometimes a refresh scrolled to first change, sometimes not
  • Log (Files, Subdirectories): only ancestor commits of the current HEAD were displayed

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitHub: each instance has its own access token
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git: Conflict Solver: for certain rebase operations the content and the title of the left/right sides were swapped

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • system property smartgit.core.shortShaLength (default = 8)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GitLab: "Object 'owner' not found." error
  • Hg: Mercurial integration broken for Mercurial 3.5
  • startup: slf4j error message printed to console
  • Git - Log:
  • Save As: when overwriting file in working tree, modification might not
  • show up until refreshed
  • Submodule Add: did not request credentials for absolute URL
  • GUI:
  • Compare, Find dialog: previous text was not preselected
  • Compare: after showing a dialog, e.g. Find, the focus was lost
  • several command's enabled state not refreshed correctly, e.g. after
  • cancelling Commit dialog

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • File table: Working Tree State for unchanged submodules show "As Index" (similar to files)
  • Commit: optionally don't remove leading and trailing whitespace
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • BitBucket integration: team repositories were not showing up
  • Edit Tool dialog: confirmation message field was not disabled initially
  • SVN: fetching of "incomplete" repository is not properly resumed and may result in internal error later

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitLab hosting provider: ability to use own server
  • Git:
  • uninitialized submodules always show up in the Files view
  • Hg:
  • Push: ability to push closed heads
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • BitBucket: outgoing pull request might result in error
  • Log:
  • when opened from a Blame, target revision might not be revealed
  • revealing a stash did not work
  • Blame:
  • line number < 10 specified as command line parameter did not work

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • EOL-modification detection improved (set smartgit.refresh.inspectEOL=true
  • in smartgit.properties)
  • Submodules (Pull and others): honor the "prune" option of the submodule
  • repository
  • Windows: updated bundled Git to version 2.4.5.1 RC4
  • Hg:
  • Branches:
  • if multiple heads, head count is shown behind branches
  • shows separate entry for every closed head
  • Bookmarks: when deleting bookmark, optionally delete from remotes, too
  • Log:
  • Close branch works on individual heads in the Graph view
  • File log: denotes revision numbers for refs not actually located on the
  • displayed commit
  • Update on a commit with bookmark asks whether to update to branch or
  • bookmark
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • external tools did not work with Git 2.4/Windows (bash.exe removed itself
  • from the path)
  • Hg:
  • Blame:
  • internal error invoking Log on blame line
  • subsequent lines of same commit showed commit info again
  • Branches: Close on the current branch with multiple heads was disabled
  • now closes the current head)
  • Log: false-positive head markers on many refs
  • Outgoing:
  • several commands update the branch instead of the previously updated
  • bookmark
  • moving allowed to move commit before first commit leaving the repository
  • in corrupt state
  • Refresh: internal error opening empty repository with bookmark
  • Repositories: no outgoing arrow if bookmark was checked out
  • Compare, Conflict Solver:
  • moving caret in line did not scroll horizontally (regression)
  • Ctrl+I inserted tab instead of invoking menu command
  • GitHub: possible internal error requesting password
  • http(s) authentication may not reset in case of errors (regression)
  • Startup silently may fail if update-repository files are corrupt

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Blame: follows merge source (instead of primary parent) if creation was in merge source
  • Commit: performance improvement (detecting pushed commits)
  • Reset: one global option for the reset type (hard, mixed, soft) instead of repository specific
  • Hg:
  • Push: if bookmark is checked out, it's been preselected for pushing
  • Repository root: show checked out bookmark instead of belonging branch
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Reset hard: complained about overwriting Index or working tree changes when a submodule has checked out a different commit
  • Compare two files with each other: keeps repository in locked state
  • Log:
  • when logging a renamed file in an older, checked out branch, history might end prematurely
  • Reveal:
  • possible internal error
  • does not work if graph is empty
  • after failed reveal, e.g. because Graph was empty, context menu was shown incorrectly without new selection
  • Hg:
  • Branches view: after "hg update -C" the bookmark was shown as "current" where it just was "active"
  • Discard Cherry-Pick/Merge: after execution checked out bookmark was not checked out any more
  • Merge two heads: failed if bookmark was checked out
  • Outgoing: merge commits were not detected and displayed correctly
  • GUI:
  • fixed tab order and layout in several dialogs
  • Other:
  • launching 2nd SmartGit instead did not open window in 1st SmartGit instance

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Conflict Solver: when using external tool, showing the resolve dialog is not optionally
  • GitLab hosting provider
  • Git:
  • force English output
  • Outgoing: ability to move and squash the dragged commit when dropping on another similar named commit
  • Log:
  • Details: revealing commits when clicking link improved
  • Performance improvement in case of many refs (tags)
  • Reviews: Jump To reveals invisible Pull Request heads, too
  • Hg:
  • Branches view: draft commits are denoted
  • Bookmark support: push, delete
  • Log:
  • ability to close branch
  • ability to toggle closed branches
  • move bookmark to other commit
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Autoupdate:
  • proceeds on OS X and Linux even if SmartGit could not be exited, e.g. because a command was running
  • cleanup problems after restarting updated SmartGit
  • Git:
  • switching branches might leave submodule red
  • Outgoing: reselection after moving a commit was broken
  • problems with http authentication (403)
  • Log:
  • Details: possible internal error clicking invalid #-link
  • old branches should not be loaded just by toggling them
  • Refresh:
  • ~/.config/gitignore was not honored
  • /etc/gitconfig was not honored on Linux
  • Hg:
  • branches are not shown as checkout any more if the bookmark actually is
  • Log: did not work if working copy had no valid parent (HEAD)

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitHub: performance improvement
  • performance improvement
  • Git:
  • Outgoing: author date is preserved by default
  • Pull (forced update): removed noisy output
  • Hg:
  • Branches: new categories for closed branches and bookmarks
  • Add Branch: extended to create bookmark
  • ability to switch to bookmarks
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Views: drag-and-drop preview showed sometimes non-rectangular form
  • OS X 10.10: parent-less dialogs get maximized if other windows are maximized
  • OS X 10.11 preview: work-around for internal error
  • SVN:
  • Cherry-Pick: possible internal error
  • Git:
  • Branches: "Rebase HEAD to" on HEAD did not rebase onto tracking branch
  • Conflict Solver: showed wrong SHA
  • Delete Branch: offered to deleted *local* tracked branch
  • Ignore: explicitly ignoring does not work for multiple files
  • Log: HEAD ref could be shown in "..."-section
  • Push: possible internal error related to reflogs
  • Refresh:
  • missing files marked as assume-unchanged contributed to "modified" state
  • submodules states were not consistent to file states (e.g. "Added Modified" vs. "Added As-Index")

New in SmartGit 6.5.9 (Jun 19, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log: possible internal error for insignificant-merge handling
  • Refresh: submodule-related warning notifications were not closable
  • OS X 10.11 preview: possible internal errors

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Autoupdate: better cleanup update cache to save disk space
  • Clone (hosting providers): allow to proceed even in case of API connection problems
  • Git:
  • Blame: support for files with UTF-8 BOM
  • Branches view: remotes were unsorted
  • Log: selecting "Recyclable Commits" shows also commits only reachable from stashes
  • Submodule Init: option to auto-initialize SVN submodules
  • Hg:
  • uses only native hg.exe (no Hg4J any more)
  • performance improvements for various commands
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Autoupdate: had problems with Innosetup related files for the uninstaller
  • Hg:
  • various comments: possible internal error if command produces much output
  • Git:
  • Merge (Git-Flow): escaped quotes on Linux/OS X
  • Log:
  • "Recyclable Commits" might not show all commits
  • Reveal Comment: possible internal error
  • Save As: "Before" option failed for renamed files

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • File Compare: ability to force text display
  • Git:
  • Discard: ability to discard changes in modified assume-unchanged files
  • Refresh: performance improvements (if many ignored files are added)
  • Autoupdate:
  • when configured to only report new versions, allow to trigger the download
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GitHub: organization repositories were not displayed any more
  • Git:
  • Refresh:
  • tracked files in directories with skipped files may not showed up: possible (temporary) "case changed" display (Windows)
  • Hg:
  • possible "unexpected negative size" error processing commands with larger output

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Hg:
  • repository-specific commands are executed using command server interface
  • GUI:
  • Autoupdate: made behavior more clear from names
  • Filter input field for table: first row is automatically selected
  • Preferences, external compare/merge tool configuration: prefill required arguments
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • BitBucket: possible internal error querying comments
  • Clone: internal error stepping through wizard with Git repo, then going back and stepping with Hg repo again
  • External Tools: GIT_EDITOR must not be overridden
  • GitHub: internal error trying to reveal comment on deleted file
  • Git:
  • Submodule add: internal error if local directory already exists (after closing the wizard)
  • SVN:
  • Pull: do not try to initialize SVN submodule if no SVN clone
  • Hg:
  • Apply Stash (Unshelve) even if a stash is Apply-ied, it could be deleted
  • Refresh: internal error related renamed files

New in SmartGit 6.5.8 (May 13, 2015)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • GitHub: organization support was broken
  • Git:
  • Commit/Revert/others: removed submodules may show up as files, too
  • Discard: resetting submodule to index still resetted to HEAD
  • Refresh: removed submodules might not show up and skipped submodules contributed to directory "modification" state

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • About dialog: button right beside version display to trigger installation directory update manually
  • External tools: sets HOME environment variable, so Git will behave in an external tool the same as inside SmartGit
  • Mercurial: Show Changes now allows to compare 2 selected files, similar to Git
  • Notification display has been reworked resolving window-activation-related problems
  • Output view: optionally shows working directory
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git: Log: obsolete heads may remain after refresh
  • SVN: Clone/Fetch: possible internal error
  • Autoupdate: fixed a couple of problems
  • Branches view: category with HEAD was always expanded after a refresh
  • Compare, View settings: "Trim equal start/end of inner-line change" was not remembered correctly
  • GitHub: can't request oauth-token
  • Show Changes: wrong line separator was used when comparing 2 files

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Clean Up: option to expire reflogs now
  • Distributed Reviews add-on: report server-side errors
  • Log:
  • customizable colors by using the VM properties smartgit.log.graph..(red|green|blue) where value might be
  • Git: tag, branchLocal, branchRemote, branchOther, headArrow
  • Hg: branch, branchClosed, tagLocal, tagGlobal, bookmark, headArrow
  • renamed "Lost Heads" to "Recyclable Commits"
  • Save As allows to save previous/next state
  • Svn:
  • Clone supports trunk/tag/branch mapping even if trunk is missing
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • possible dead-lock when clicking Exit in the bug dialog
  • Git:
  • Changes view: wrong "x" button for HEAD vs. Index comparison
  • Cherry Pick (and other) dialog: possible internal error when closing
  • Distributed Review: were not available in main window
  • Log: possible warning "Missing unknown " when toggling "Recyclable Commits"
  • Refresh: deleted files were not displayed if entire directory is deleted
  • Updater:
  • "checksum does not match" error
  • Check for New Version: obsolete notifications may remain in case of problems

New in SmartGit 6.5.7a (Apr 11, 2015)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • GitHub: listing of organization repositories broken

New in SmartGit 6.5.7 (Apr 8, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitHub: support for latest authentication changes
  • Rename uses --force option to allow also case-changes
  • Proxy: support for http.nonProxyHosts VM property
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Blame: possible internal error showing tooltip
  • External tools: PATH was not configured correctly for launched process if Git or Hg executable path was already part of PATH
  • Updater failed to launch elevated (problem with environment variables)
  • Git:
  • Commit: trailing whitespaces must not be trimmed from commit.template; Space did not toggle Amend checkbox but selected row in table
  • ff-merge.sh not starting with #!/bin/bash caused problems
  • Log (File, Subdirectory): Insignificant Merges broken
  • Refresh: possible performance problem
  • Repository Settings: could not unset default encoding
  • GUI:
  • Del offers to delete repository group instead of selected file
  • Directory tree: wrong-cased version was displayed in parenthesis for case-changed directories
  • Table column packing did not work correctly on OS X
  • Table filtering: hidden files were shown as first items instead of as last ones

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Outgoing view: ability to change author of commits
  • Revert: added vm-property "smartgit.revert.commitMessageTemplate" to customize the commit message; use ${message} and ${sha} for the message or SHA ID of the reverted commit and \n to add a line-break
  • Add or Create Repository: detect repository even if admin subdirectory (.git/.hg) is specified
  • GitHub: compatibility fix for upcoming OAuth API change
  • GitHub, Stash, Bitbucket integration: notification to suggest configuration
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Blame: Ctrl+Z accelerator did not work when focus was in file content pane
  • Refresh/other commands: possible hangs related to Cygwin installations (Cygwin Git, Open SSH)

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Log: Branches view: explicit "Anchor" node to toggle
  • Repository|Add Group: shows warning when group with this name already exists
  • Start-up: "--anchor-commit" command line option in addition to "--log"
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Cherry Pick/Revert: merge commits do not work when view is filtered
  • Stash integration (Atlassian): possible internal error if repository has blank in its name

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

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • obsolete stashes may show up
  • switching repositories may show invalid stashes
  • Stash Integration: authentication failures
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible internal error

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Stash integration
  • BitBucket:
  • advanced integration similar to GitHub
  • option to use either SSH or HTTPS URLs
  • Git:
  • .gitignore-related performance improvements
  • added View|Show Skipped Files
  • file filter finds skipped files, too
  • Changes view:
  • display of reason why a file is considered as binary
  • ability to force displaying it as text
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Refresh: possible endless loop and skipped (missing) directories might temporarily show up as missing
  • Updater:
  • fixed problems when installing newer version over old version
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • updated Java to version 1.8.0_31, especially to support the latest timezones
  • updated SWT to version 4.5M5 to fix certain SWT bugs

New in SmartGit 6.5.6 (Feb 12, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitHub:
  • "default" branch is preselected when creating pull request
  • more efficient queries
  • support for upcoming API changes related to organizations
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Hg:
  • Blame: possible internal error
  • repository management: possible internal error removing a repository that could have been opened in a second window
  • speed-search: internal error entering characters using input method editor
  • startup fails with "SmartGit has been started with elevation" error
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible problems with svn:special being set
  • push might create a branch "foo+bar" instead of pushing to existing branch "foo bar"
  • text editors: Undo/Redo performed 2 steps when invoked using shortcut

New in SmartGit 6.5.5 (Jan 20, 2015)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • External tools: default external tool "Format Patch" failed if output directory contained spaces in path
  • Log: Cherry-Pick and Revert did not work in filtered view
  • Pull: "origin" was not preselected if present and there was no tracked branch
  • Push: possible internal error
  • SVN:
  • internal error if trying to push a new branch
  • OS X:
  • Changes toolbar sometimes lost "Next Change" item

New in SmartGit 6.5.4 (Jan 12, 2015)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Push: support for "push.default=current"
  • GC invocations have been reduced
  • added VM property "smartgit.branch.tagExcludeRegEx" to improve log-related speed for repositories with a large number of tags by exclude uninteresting tags, e.g. autogenerated ones, by specifying a regular expression
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Blame: Compare/Log did not work on moved/renamed files
  • Cherry Pick (without commit): ignored the "Append source SHA to commit message" option
  • Commit erroneously considers staged submodules as local changes and hence showed irritating warning
  • GitHub: unable to clone ".wiki" repositories
  • Refresh: problems with file monitor being disabled
  • Tools: a tool configured to use 2 commits, did not offer both "directions"
  • Window|New Window: might have opened two windows
  • Updater /Mac:
  • admin privileges may not be requested though required
  • ~/Library/Preferences/SmartGit/updater directory not cleaned up correctly
  • might wait endlessly trying to exit SmartGit

New in SmartGit 6.5.3 (Dec 20, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Commit: option to preselect "staged" files, if those exist and even if a file without index changes is selected
  • Index Editor: made available for unchanged files, too
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • updated bundled Git versions (Windows, OS X) to those which the vulnerability fixes
  • Background Fetch: used Git executable which was set on startup, even if changed later in the preferences
  • Refresh: modification state of submodules was not reset after commits
  • Distributed Reviews: error when right-clicking "Pull-Requests" node in main window
  • GitHub: problems with pull requests if users did not exist any more
  • Commit:
  • squash-merge did not work for submodules
  • squash-merge option was not available in case of local changes
  • Log:
  • when stepping through commits where file wasn't changed, no different file must be selected automatically
  • File log: merging node not displayed if file was renamed in merge source
  • regular expression filter did not work
  • External tools:
  • tools with variables in command, e.g. ${smartGitDir} could not be edited
  • invoking one and cancelling the file dialog showed an "unknown variable ..." warning
  • OS X:
  • several .sh file were not found
  • tools using ${smartGitDir} variable did not work

New in SmartGit 6.5.2 (Dec 11, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Branches: added VM property to configure which "Other" refs to display, e.g. "smartgit.branch.otherRefs=notes;archive"
  • http-proxy: is passed by environment variable now (instead of command line configuration) to make passwords less visible
  • Log: in case of selected merge commit, the IDs are shown above the Changes view to make clear which changes are shown
  • Refresh: more detailed notification in case of detected possible performance problem
  • Autoupdate:
  • made successfully-downloaded-notification closable
  • GUI:
  • improved performance, especially when resizing the Log window
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare and others: performance problem for large files with a lot of changes
  • Conflict Solver or Index Editor: current-line highlight did not work
  • VM property "smartgit.executable.home" was not always honored
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: merge should in general be available for feature branches except for HEAD being a special branch
  • Fetch More: did not work for clones of just a single head
  • Refresh: possibly too much refreshing in case of submodules
  • GUI:
  • removing group did not update nested, open repository potentionally causing internal error
  • removed Conflict Solver default accelerator because it conflicted with speed-search
  • trying to open a non-existing repository: occurring confirmation dialog was not active
  • OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): removed Window > Full Screen, because maximizing had the same effect

New in SmartGit 6.5.1 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Repository Provider Select Repository dialog: added speed-search
  • upon multiple user request reverted the splash screen
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: Finish Release did not remove remote branch
  • Refresh: "missing" directories might vanish sometimes
  • Hg:
  • Blame: possible internal error if line(s) at position 0 have been removed
  • Enter on a changed file opened 2 file compares
  • "High memory usage" notification overestimated used memory and hence showed up too often

New in SmartGit 6.5.0 (Nov 17, 2014)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Log, Compare with Local: explanation added
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Refresh: possible internal error if Git executable is not configured
  • Distributed Reviews:
  • no details were shown for closed pull requests
  • SVN:
  • Fetch: aborted after a single external failed
  • Pull: svn:externals pointing to HEAD were not updated
  • File monitor (Linux): - possibly broke depending on project structure
  • Licensing: having used the non-commercial license in v6, started evaluation
  • GUI:
  • OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): right-clicking the table header to show the column popup was broken
  • possible internal error if user has changed ui-config.xml manually

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Bitbucket: system property "smartgit.bitbucket.useHttps=true" to use HTTPS instead of SSH connections
  • GitHub: system property "smartgit.github.perPageLimit"
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Commit: default merge message did not show up for empty commits
  • Init: stuck with "incomplete" repository
  • GUI:
  • Log, Files: column widths were reset when opening log in git and hg

New in SmartGit 6.0.8 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • A bug could produce tons of bug*.ziip files within short period of time
  • Password handling was broken with Java 1.8.0_25
  • SSH: if temp directory contained spaces, the built-in SSH client didn't work
  • Git:
  • Ignore: "Explicit" option was enabled for multi-file-selection
  • Repositories: bare repositories were shown as modified
  • Hg:
  • Refresh: possible internal error caused by "bad" branchheads cache

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

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • "Fast-Forward-Merge" default tool left staged files when invoked on current branch
  • Log: revealing a commit was broken in rc 2
  • Refresh: "" state remained after cloning an empty repository

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • "High memory usage" detection will be more tolerant and hence occurs less likely
  • Git:
  • Branches: Rename: works now also for the current branch; Create Branch from a remote branch: tracking checkbox is unselected when the local branch name is changed
  • Commit messages will only be loaded up to 4kB
  • GitHub: pull request title/description is only separated by newline, not a period
  • Remote|Configure renamed to Remote|Properties
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Setup wizard: on OS X 10.9+ /usr/bin/git is not verified unless SmartGit "thinks" Git is installed (otherwise OS X will show a dialog asking to install Git though not necessary)
  • Git:
  • Log: rename detection did not canonicalize line endings
  • OS X:
  • Refresh: directories containing a skipped file may vanish after performing a command
  • Remote|Properties (Configure) was broken for SVN repositories
  • Repositories:
  • "" state was lost when switching windows
  • opening a repository group closed repositories inside that group which already were open
  • GUI:
  • accelerators did not work using, e.g., a Russian keyboard layout
  • drag-and-drop of files/directories to input fields was broken
  • Files: internal error sorting for "State" and having "skipped" files
  • Tables: selecting the next item after a previous one had been deleted, did not work reliable

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Distributed Reviews: added menu item "Show Closed Pull Request"
  • Log Commits graph:
  • number of refs in mouse-over-section is shown
  • meta refs only show up in the mouse-over-section
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Hg: (authenticated) http-connections broken
  • Password store: broken for newest Java versions, e.g. 1.8.0_25
  • UTF-8-detection from content was not enabled by default
  • Git:
  • Distributed Reviews: Log continues to show pull requests after integration
  • Rename: could not be invoked by pressing F2 on a directory
  • Startup: "Possible refresh performance problem" did not honor already set "smartgit.executable.home" property
  • SVN:
  • Edit (Last) Commit Message: showed SVN information (e.g. from cherry-pick)
  • GUI:
  • Notifications: might show outdated notifications
  • OS X 10.10 ("Yosemite"): problems rendering the search input field
  • Tables: selecting the next item after a previous one had been deleted, did not work reliable

New in SmartGit 6.5 Preview 8 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Help menu: replaced "Mailing List" menu item with "SmartGit Website"
  • Git:
  • support for "--skip-worktree"
  • Pull: for multiple repositories even if some fail, the others are tried to been pulled/fetched
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Autoupdate: "Force upgrade installation directory..." option did not work
  • Hg: Refresh did not honor local .hgignore file
  • Linux: internal error dropping file from network share onto file input field
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • removed check for elevated launch on Windows

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Autoupdate: "New Version" notification should stay after having clicked "Show Changelog"
  • Compare: curly-brace-related optimization to give more appropriate results for complex diffs
  • Repositories: indicate "bare", closed repositories
  • Submodules:
  • Deinit feature
  • Unregister should be visible in context menu and deinit submodule
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Blame: internal error when invoking Log on "" line
  • Compare/Log > Save As: binary file may be treated as text file (line separator conversion)
  • Fast-forward merge tool used wrong branch
  • Log: showing branch/stash from main window did not work if Log was already open for this repository
  • Refresh: fails to detect changes of repository which became freshly initialized outside of SmartGit
  • Set Tracked Branch: listed meta-refs
  • Submodules: working tree state of "added" submodule was not "As Index"
  • Branches:
  • switching to a remote-only feature branch selected the newly occurring branch under its remote
  • Pull was enabled for "bare" repositories
  • GitHub:
  • Create Pull Request: listed HEAD as target branch
  • error "Object 'body' not found." for special repositories
  • OTHER CHANGES:
  • automatic thread dump logging in case of hanging GUI thread
  • removed default mercurial from Windows installer/portable bundles

New in SmartGit 6.0.7 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Built-in SSH client: did not support user names with domain, e.g. user@domain
  • Git:
  • Annotate: possible internal error
  • Commit: possible internal error when dialog is closed too quickly
  • Compare: possible internal error
  • Ignore: internal error when trying to ignore files like "foo[" by name
  • Output view: possible internal error
  • Pull: unselected option "And initialize new submodules" was not honored
  • View|Ignored Files: if selected, uninitialized submodules were not shown if View|Unchanged Files was unselected
  • Refresh:
  • submodule within untracked directory may not show up
  • for sparse checkouts unexpected missing directories were displayed
  • Hg:
  • Branches: branches containing a space in their name were not processed
  • correctly
  • Log (dialog-based): possible internal error on close
  • Refresh: possible internal error
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible internal error
  • Pull: possible misleading warning about local state in case of
  • uninitialized submodules
  • Push: possible internal error
  • GUI:
  • File path completion: possible internal error
  • Out-of-memory-error-dialog: Exit button did not work

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

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare/Conflict Solver: reading of text files with byte order mark (BOM) was broken, causing it to be written twice on Save
  • Git:
  • Log: might jump back to commit to reveal
  • Hg:
  • Repositories did not show outgoing arrow when opened, but when closed
  • .hgignore: ** did not work as expected

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Preferences: removed obsolete option "GitHub: Ask for master password, if required"
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Revert & Commit: kept revert message until next commit
  • Assume-Unchanged state superseded missing/deleted state
  • Changes view: display was broken for submodules
  • External tools:
  • did not work on closed repositories
  • "Apply Patch" is enabled even without any repository
  • Updater (Mac/Linux): possible problems if elevation was required for previous updates
  • Shutdown-hooks were not invoked causing, e.g., temp directories to not be cleared

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

  • NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Reveal Commit now works on filtered Commits view to select in graph
  • has Tools menu for general tools
  • GUI:
  • improved drag-and-drop in trees (e.g. to move repositories to other groups)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • possible interrupted loading when toggling old tag visible, then HEAD
  • redundant refreshing after revealing a commit
  • autoupdate:
  • OS X: invalid hashes for symlinks, causing broken symlinks to remain
  • OS X: JRE was installed in wrong location, causing updater to not start

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git
  • Conflict Solver: show resolve-like dialog for binary files
  • File Compare: did not check out Index and HEAD states with correct line separators
  • Pull: avoid confusing "You are in 'detached HEAD' state." message
  • Resolve: option to open Conflict Solver
  • Git Flow:
  • option to configure tag name for Finish Release
  • support for more than one release branch at the same time
  • GitHub:
  • optionally add "upstream" remote to simply fetch from forked repository
  • list also starred repositories
  • Updater:
  • more details are displayed in case of error
  • Windows: uses elevation-enforcing executable instead of script
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git
  • Background Fetch/Poll: optiion to disable certain remote was sometimes not honored
  • Changes: EOL information was shown even for binary files
  • External tools: if no confirmation was required, ${commit} was still passed as second parameter in case of single selection
  • File Compare, Log|Save As: did not check out Index and HEAD states with correct line separators
  • Refresh may fail to pick up changes during/after having merging/cherrypicking/rebasing/reverting
  • Revert and Revert & Commit did not produce the same commit message
  • Review: Integrate with rebase gave internal error for remote pull request branch
  • Log: Details: clicking commit link did not find it in Commits view
  • SVN:
  • Clone mapped svnkit:entry properties to .gitattribute
  • Updater:
  • did perform elevation check even for < Windows Vista
  • on startup, when cancelling elevation, SmartGit hang without GUI
  • on Windows, it failed when SmartGit was launched from 64-bit Java
  • git, mercurial and jre directories were created even when no-JRE bundle was installed
  • possible internal error

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Preferences, SmartGit Updates: option to force upgrade of installation directory even if patches would be sufficient
  • Repositories: remember group expansion states
  • beside smartgit://cloneRepo/ sourcetree://cloneRepo/ is now also supported
  • Log:
  • External tools: refs-tools work also on Commits
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Blame: invoking Log did not select the commit any more
  • External tools:
  • default tool "Apply Patch" did not show up in Tools menu
  • default tools "Merge Directly To" and "Forward Merge" did not work on SHAs
  • Hg:
  • Branches containing space in their name were not processed correctly
  • GUI:
  • Accelerators: if a compare editor was focused, e.g. Ctrl+Alt+1/2 did not work
  • Notifications: when two notification were sent to quickly after another, only the first one was shown
  • Setup:
  • did not work correctly when having used the non-commercial option in a previous version
  • Register button might kept enabled though no file has been entered, resulting in an internal error when clicking it

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 Features, Improvements:
  • SSH: added VM property smartgit.ssh.defaultUser to configure SSH user name to use if not specified in the URL
  • Submodules: added VM property smartgit.core.push.recurseSubmodules=on-demand to push submodules on demand
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Add or Create Repository: opens an already open repository in second window
  • Log: Details: should display information in case parent commits are not yet loaded Commits: internal error dragging ref over merging node Log Commit Chooser: internal error invoking a Copy action on a virtual (e.g. merging) node
  • Review: possible error in case of invalid user email possible internal error in case of strange characters (like \n) in user name entering invalid email address may result in error after editing a user commit message lost after integrating a pull request using "Merge" Integrate should not fast-forward merge when using option "Merge" when syncing Review changes without having pushed local pull request branch, corresponding pull request may vanish temporarily in the remote repository should not update pull request without having a local branch (may result in error "could not resolve commit '

New in SmartGit 6.0.5 (Jul 28, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Branches view: tracked Git-Flow branches also show up for corresponding remotes
  • Conflict Solver: now works also on "deleted-by" conflicts
  • Distributed Review: preserves commit-refs for removed pull requests/comments (can be turned off optionally)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Blame: internal error related to moved files
  • Conflict Solver: did not evaluate line separators from .gitattributes
  • Distributed Review: possible error (multiple merge bases for and commit>" when working with multiple remotes
  • Index Editor: "invalid boolean value" error message on Save if core.safecrlf=warn
  • Push To: forced-pushing to non-existing remote branch failed
  • Rebase: Continue complains about modified submodules
  • Refresh: core.excludesfile specified in .git/config was not used
  • Hg:
  • Apply Stash: did not apply the last created one shelve (shelves were sorted alphabetically instead of based on creation time)
  • Blame: possible internal error for files with multiple origins
  • Git repository's spinning wheel did not spin when refreshing in background
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible internal error related to .gitattributes mapping
  • GUI:
  • possible slowness/hang when too many windows were open
  • several GUI parts, e.g. Log/Details: click, drag-select and release over a
  • link did trigger the link action

New in SmartGit 6.0.4 (Jul 8, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Deleting a remove branch now also disables the tracking of the corresponding local branch
  • Cherry-pick: added VM option smartgit.cherrypick.xOption set to true to pass the -x option to the cherry-pick command
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • various operations: problems with files locked exclusively by other applications
  • file monitor (Windows): possible internal error
  • other sporadic bugs reported by the crash reporting
  • Git:
  • Pull: possible misleading error message in case on of multiple remotes is down
  • Commit: "Stages files" only shows a subset of all files when committing from a non-root directory
  • Log, Details: possible internal error when hovering over SHA-link
  • GitHub:
  • problems fetching pull request if remote URLs differ in case
  • Log: Sync did not work
  • Review:
  • "Neutral" option showed up as +1 instead of +0
  • Sync not enabled after initializing database
  • meta "commit"-refs might not be created properly if sync overlaps with someone else syncing
  • GUI:
  • Changes views: misleading "binary content" message for large text files
  • work-around for the SWT bug
  • Drag and drop: internal error dragging commits from the Log to the Outgoing view

New in SmartGit 6.0.3 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Background Fetch: may not be invoked (just polled)
  • Changes view: clicking side-buttons sometimes does not work possible internal error clicking [ < < ] buttons
  • Check for Update: did not report new versions
  • Distributed Review: slow, unresponsive Users dialog in case of many users
  • GitHub: Create Pull Request/Comment menu items were gone possible internal error related to refresh possible internal error if username/password combination is too long
  • Log: File log: possible internal error
  • Merge: possible internal error closing dialog immediately after opening
  • OS X: "git-credential-osxkeychain" in bundled Git was not executable; JRE contained broken symlink
  • Pull with rebase sometimes is rejected
  • Rebase, Skip: tried to continue instead of skipping the current patch
  • Refresh: internal error for relative paths in repositories.xml failed to update file states after committing to submodule which has been opened as repository
  • Rename Remote: possible internal error for certain selection states
  • Hg:
  • Log: graph columns were not wide enough initially
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible internal error
  • GUI:
  • Ctrl+A in a tree must not changes expansion state of nodes
  • Remove Repository: internal error when having removed the repository already in another window
  • Resource leaks

New in SmartGit 6.0.2 (Jun 6, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Background Fetch: introduced .gitconfig option "remove..smartgitBackgroundFetch=false" to exclude remote from background fetching
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Background Refresh: endless spinning wheel for one repository
  • Commit Message tool window related internal error
  • Git Flow: possible internal error when trying to finish release
  • Outgoing: paths of submodules always showed up as "."
  • Smart Open (double-click): invoked Conflict Solver instead of Resolve for conflicting submodules
  • Distributed Review:
  • Add Comment: rendering problems when using @
  • Integrate Pull Request may not offer Rebase, giving strange reason
  • GitHub/Distributed Review markdown:
  • possible internal error trying to display large comments (parsing error)
  • incorrect markdown rendering for bold+italic
  • Log:
  • File log: possible internal error
  • Refresh:
  • after commands failed to pick up changes if only .git/HEAD file was affected
  • was not enabled when an invalid Git executable was configured
  • Hg:
  • Add: did not allow to add ignored files
  • Rebase: possible internal error in case of invalid HEAD
  • General
  • Outgoing: dropping before first commit was not possible any more
  • Repositories: Remove Repository was enabled if opened in another window causing internal error
  • Shutdown: possible internal error

New in SmartGit 6.0.1 (Jun 2, 2014)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • BitBucket provider: show Owner column
  • prominent confirmation for sending 'crash footprints'
  • Hg:
  • Outgoing: show SHA column
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • SVN: Commit: possible internal error related to hook-return message
  • SSH: read-timeout was not configured, now it is 1 hour
  • Exit: possible internal error
  • Git:
  • GitHub:
  • Drop Pull Request: might result in internal error:
  • external changes to refs/pulls may not be reflected in the Branches view
  • outgoing pull requests may not show up in the Branches view
  • possible internal error if username or password contains newline characters
  • Outgoing: might display outdated data when selecting repository group
  • Refresh: possible internal error if repository becomes invalid during refresh
  • Hg:
  • Outgoing:
  • squashing initial commits results in unversioned working copy:
  • moving initial commit was allowed
  • possible problems due to outdated commits being still displayed
  • GUI:
  • possible internal error related to obstructed files
  • Welcome dialog: internal error if repository name or directory path contains \r
  • Preferences:
  • Executables page: trying to show an error when verifying executable resulted in internal error
  • Generate GitHub Token dialog: possible internal error when closing

New in SmartGit 6.0.0 (May 28, 2014)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • SVN: memory leak for various commands
  • Git:
  • Discard: did not work for submodules
  • Git-Flow configure: when trying to configure Light mode, error "'' is not valid branch" could be shown
  • Log: possible internal error dropping ref onto "Merge" node
  • Refresh: possible internal error
  • Submodule|Resolve: possible internal error if submodule was invalid
  • GUI:
  • Bug dialog: Force Exit could cause deadlock
  • Edit|Customize: "Menu Item" column was not wide enough to fit all items
  • Missing repository: possible internal error when deleting missing repository

New in SmartGit 5.0.10 (May 27, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Blame: internal error while navigating
  • Changes view:
  • staging a block does not honor "filters" (.gitattributes)
  • staging/discarding chagnes does not work if core.safecrlf is set
  • Commit (SVN): possible internal error
  • GitHub:
  • internal error if the current branch tracked another local branch
  • possible internal error when querying pull requests (related to upper/lower case mismatch of user and repository names)
  • Log:
  • possible internal error when opening, related to file monitoring
  • possible internal error while drag and drop
  • search input field: when entering something matching the table did not repaint without connectors
  • Refresh: possible internal error related to submodules

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Background Poll/Fetch: poll/fetch after master password has been entered
  • Exit: try to abort background processes
  • ability to register zipped license file
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Compare: possible internal error related to scrolling using wheelmouse
  • Setup: some pages were empty
  • Shutdown: possible internal error
  • Linux/OS X: the title did not show paths in HOME with leading ~/
  • OS X: some controls were cut-off
  • Git:
  • Creating a new repository: did not initialize when a repository was already known for the specified directory
  • Background Poll/Refresh: sometimes stopped working
  • Branches view: possible internal error
  • Clone: possible internal error cloning a Git repository at a location where SmartGit expected a Hg repository
  • Drop Stash: possible internal error
  • Merge: platform encoding was used instead of UTF-8 to read/write .git/MERGE_MSG
  • Output view: possible internal error when moving commits
  • various commands: possible internal error caused by invalid config values
  • Log: could not open Log for submodule gitlink and submodule repository at the same time, and Details: clicking SHA was broken

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 FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
  • GitHub integration: option to use either https or ssh repository URLs
  • Bug dialog: Send Directly button with pre-filled email address
  • Review:
  • option to dispose database
  • smarter click action for Preview comments
  • support for multiple approvers
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Branch Browser: possible internal error
  • Clone/Fetch/Push: "counting objects" should be output to status bar instead of Output area
  • Edit Comments: resize problems
  • Log/others: possible internal error in combination with annotated tags
  • Review: possible duplication of Pull Request (contents)
  • Shutdown: possible internal errors
  • Tools: didn't work on files selection any more
  • Various possible purely UI-related errors

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Checkout: in case of unversioned files, ask whether to stash them (otherwise switching branches might abort)
  • when creating new repositories, e.g. by using drag and drop, don't append number suffixes by default
  • Refresh: should not (read-only) access files in ignored directories
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Compare: internal error when trying to export HTML for binary file diff
  • Conflict Solver: internal error switching layouts
  • possible internal error opening bare repository with invalid HEAD
  • Log: possible internal error (ConcurrentModificationException)
  • File watcher (Linux): internal error
  • GUI: endless focus cycle between Files table and its filter input field

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

  • NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Annotate/Blame: when using --blame command line option, ability to pass line number to scroll to: --blame /my/file.txt:123
  • Refresh: optionally refresh when SmartGit is in background
  • Review: pull requests which are updated (due to new commits) are put into "Pending" state again
  • GitHub/Bitbucket: changed fingerprints now can easily accepted
  • reworked default perspectives
  • automatically send stacktraces of internal errors to syntevo.com
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Resource leak: not all resources were correctly disposed on exit
  • Log: memory leak
  • Refresh (Linux): did not work for repositories on symlinks
  • Copy Path and others wer broken for file selections
  • OS X: "git-credential-osxkeychain dies of signal 11"
  • Notifications in multiple windows were shown with wrong z-order
  • GitHub icon: was not recognizable with dark themes
  • Review:
  • Configure: internal error when trying to initialize remotes and all remotes were already initialized
  • Sync: error when trying to sync pull request deletion for already deleted branch
  • possible "Commit xyz was not found in repository" error message
  • refs/meta/smartgit/commit-refs might become lost

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Clone: can be cancelled
  • Compare: currentline-highlight is optional
  • External Diff Tools: temporary files should be set to read-only
  • System property "smartgit.repositories.removeMissing" to get rid of missing repositories on startup
  • Background tasks:
  • should give more precedence to foreground tasks
  • should not run concurrently
  • Log:
  • works on bare repositories
  • Comments: background color is configurable
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Blame: possible internal error when hovering over info-gutter
  • Branches view (OS X): Octocat did not show up until tool windows was resized
  • File System Monitoring (Mac OS): may fail if path to repository contains uppercase characters
  • GitHub: possible internal error related to updating Branches view
  • .gitmodules: partial support for "ignore=all"
  • Preferences: possible internal error after toggling GitHub integration
  • Push: if repository has no remote, Remote|Add-dialog occurred on top of error dialog, hiding it
  • Refresh (after commands): sometimes not invoked if file monitor is disabled (or could not be loaded)
  • Repositories view: too many operations were enabled for mixed selection of open and closed repositories
  • Reviews: Reply should not contain original comment text
  • Sync: did not update the repository state correctly
  • Various commands: internal error when command output contains \r
  • Log:
  • Files table should always be empty in case of 3 or more commits selected
  • Cent OS: by default, the table columns were too narrow

New in SmartGit 5.0.9 (Apr 9, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Compare/others: possible internal error on text completion (Ctrl-Space)
  • GitHub: certificate error
  • Notifications popup: sometimes remains visible though having clicked the close button
  • Tree Table: possible internal related to Drag&Drop
  • Various commands: possible internal error related to Output view

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Merge: uses short ref name where possible to produce easier readable default commit messages without leading "refs/remotes/" branch prefix
  • Git-Flow operations properly update submodules
  • Outgoing view: will remember visible columns
  • Compare: optionally inner-line changes in whitespaces will show whitespace symbols
  • Changes view: navigating using mousewheel and prev/next toolbar buttons now puts the focus into the side of the larger block to make it better readable
  • SmartGit SSH client: ability to limit max. connection count per period
  • Repository search: more advanced name algorithm trying to avoid name duplication using parent directory names
  • Project import: doesn't use number suffixes for directory names
  • Repository search, project import: recently used list is sorted by .git/HEAD time
  • Log:
  • Reveal Commit:
  • make select (only) the commit; the new Compare with Selected Commit adds to the existing (single-commit) selection
  • focusses Commits view
  • Add Commit Comment is now present in the main menu
  • Review:
  • Pull requests create merge commit for easier review
  • Sync gives a little bit command output
  • inline comments show no ID any more
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Background fetch: possible internal error
  • Command line option "--open " caused two windows to be opened
  • Speed-search: possible NPE pressing Ctrl-V
  • Refresh: possible internal error
  • Log:
  • toggling display of meta-refs in the preferences did not work until reopening the Log
  • internal error right-clicking empty area in Comments view
  • Review:
  • push failed due to diverged refs/meta commit
  • replying to comment of another user was not possible
  • possible internal error "Could not resolve commit 'refes/...'" on Rebase
  • OS X:
  • Accelerator configuration dialog and tooltips showed + between modifiers
  • Info.plist did not contain LSApplicationCategoryType entry

New in SmartGit 6 preview 5 (Mar 28, 2014)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git-Flow: lightweight model supporting only feature branches
  • Git: preferences option to push all tags
  • Review:
  • integration into main window
  • support for different pull-request states, e.g. pending/approved/rejected
  • Pull Requests category shows "my" pull request count
  • Assignee input field supports user alias completion
  • double-clicking a comment jumps to comment
  • GUI: Windows: taskbar item is highlighted if a dialog is shown while SmartGit is in background
  • smartgit.properties: moved property descriptions to online help
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • import of old projects: multiple repositories with same root were imported
  • Git:
  • Background Refresh/Fetch:
  • possible internal error if bare repository has been opened
  • master password was still requested
  • GitHub:
  • Add Comment dialog was broken
  • Drop Local Data did not work after pull request had been deleted
  • Log:
  • possible internal error related to commit messages containing "\r\n"
  • Reveal Commit: might select multiple refs in same category
  • Pull: was not visible in context menu of closed repositories
  • Review:
  • delay/hang when expanding Pull Request category
  • comment commits without ref could be garbage collected
  • pull requests still showed up as "local" after pushing to remote
  • GUI:
  • repaint problems with table columns truncated in the middle
  • possible internal error when Repositories selection changed while the tree control was updated
  • OS X 10.9: color chooser buttons in preferences had mis-aligned icon

New in SmartGit 5.0.8 (Mar 13, 2014)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • BitBucket: updated expected fingerprint
  • SVN: trying to clone from CodePlex is now prevented to avoid later problems
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • possible internal error related to Lost Heads option
  • links in Details view were not updated correctly

New in SmartGit 5.0.7.1 (Feb 24, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log (File): possible empty Log in case of at least two disjoint commit lines in repository
  • Refresh: negated .gitignore patterns might not work properly (regression since 5.0.7)

New in SmartGit 5.0.7 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • authentication: usernames contain @ were not handled correctly
  • Commit: "amend" option was available for new local branches pointing to already pushed commits
  • GitHub:
  • internal error when trying to read comments (invalid date format)
  • integration broken for repositories not belonging to own account
  • Log:
  • HEAD commit might falsely be considered as pushed if HEAD points directly to an SHA
  • Details (GitHub): if commit contains comments, content becomes shifted to the right
  • Refresh:
  • negated .gitignore patterns might not work properly
  • possible internal error related to Git index
  • Hg:
  • Log: internal error closing window too quickly after opening
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible "Cannot resolve refs/remotes/git-svn" error
  • Push Commits: false-positive warning "It's not possible to push commit '' as it belongs to multiple branches"
  • GUI: changes view could be made smaller than its minimum size
  • Linux: inotify-limit warning links to non-existing documentation page
  • OS X: GUI-related internal errors

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
  • OS X:
  • Commit message input fields: cursor up/down did not work correctly for the first/last line when having wrapped lines
  • possible internal error clicking the SmartGit dock icon
  • internal errors related to tree controls

New in SmartGit 5.0.5 (Dec 20, 2013)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • SVN: possible internal error when cloning
  • OS X:
  • collapsing tree nodes caused internal error (regression)
  • oossible internal error for the Branches view

New in SmartGit 5.0.4 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Bugtraq: compatibility with v0.3 (special link support)
  • GitHub:
  • latest pull requests are displayed first
  • merge commit message now defaults to Pull Request title
  • merge option to perform local merge
  • reasonable error message if a command fails because of missing access rights
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • GitHub:
  • one page too few has been loaded
  • fetching pull request might fail with "Could not determine remote entry for pull request anchor ..." error
  • reading comments may fail with "Expected line starting with '', '+' or '-'" error
  • Git-Flow: possible internal error when starting a Hotfix or Release
  • Log:
  • file log: commits from merge source may be missing if file has been created in merge sources
  • possible internal error related to Files view in case of duplicate file names
  • locally present pull request might have not been selectable nor revealable
  • Bugtraq: invalid configuration caused refresh to fail
  • remotes without "fetch=" refspec were not recognized
  • SVN:
  • Clone/Pull: possible "Connection reset" problems
  • Clone: possible internal error
  • GUI:
  • Branches view: performance problem in case of many refs
  • Compare: "file is too large" displayed too often, reverted back to v4.6 fixed-size limit
  • tree drag and drop: previously selected node was dragged even if the drag has been started on a non-selected node
  • trees:
  • icon was not correctly updated on selection change
  • possible internal errors (especially related to the Branches view)
  • Linux: new directories were not correctly scanned after switching back to
  • SmartGit
  • default smartgit.properties contained obsolete smartgit.github.url entry
  • SmartGit exited on startup in case .ssh/known_hosts contained invalid entries

New in SmartGit 5.0.3 (Nov 29, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Bugtraq: multiple configurations should be applied in the same commit message
  • Git Flow: configuration should not require Remote, so it works for standalone repositories as well
  • GitHub: token will now be used as password for Git operations, too, so there is no more need to enter the account password
  • OS X: text fields should use Cmd+Return or Keypad-Enter to invoke default button
  • Push: better wording in instructions text
  • Clone: system property "smartgit.core.clone.noHardLinks" to add "--no-hardlinks" option
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone/other operations (SVN): might have failed due to NTLM-related problems
  • Git Flow: might have reported "feature already existing" warning, even there is no such feature locally or in the configured remote repository
  • GitHub: might have composed URLs from wrong remote and subsequently failed with "not found" error
  • Log:
  • internal error on Goto Next/Previous Commit in case of many candidate commits
  • possible internal error after deleting repository outside of SmartGit/Hg
  • Refresh:
  • "--skip-worktree" files should not show up at all (instead of showing up as "untracked")
  • should not fail in case of invalid bugtraq configuration
  • Various commands: possible internal error related to trees

New in SmartGit 5.0.2 (Nov 20, 2013)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • ability to configure completion shortcut for text input fields/editors (by default Ctrl+Space) in accelerators.xml
  • Preferences, Commands > Log: options to disable GitHub integration or whether to ask for master-password
  • avatar-server can be configured in smartgit.properties
  • GitHub: support for "[email protected]:project"-URLs
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Index Editor/Conflict Solver: possible internal error
  • Branches:
  • possible internal error invoking operations on directory selection without having local branches in the repository
  • Outgoing:
  • shown commits might be outdated causing internal error, e.g. when using Java 1.6 on Linux
  • GitHub:
  • certain operations fail if cloned URL did not end with ".git"
  • GUI:
  • tree-control-related internal errors
  • Compare: change stripe could flicker when scrolling
  • Changes view: the gutter showed linenumber 1 even if no file was shown
  • Preferences, GitHub provider Edit dialog: OK button not enabled if Client Certificate input field is empty
  • OS X, text editors/commit message: pressing Up/Down in first/last line did not put caret at first/last position
  • OS X: some table columns, e.g. in the Preferences dialog, were too narrow
  • Windows, Aero theme: strange flickering when opening windows

New in SmartGit 5.0.1 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Clone: for Non-GitHub hosting providers, account may be displayed with leading slash in table
  • Compare/Change View: possible out-of-memory-error in case of huge text files
  • Startup: "settings.xml" of version 4.6 might be considered corrupt if loading gravatars was disabled
  • Log:
  • bugtraq configuration did not work in case of multiple entries
  • Delete Comment: did not ask for confirmation
  • possible internal error after closing
  • revealing commit might not work properly

New in SmartGit 5.0.0 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Hosting Provider configuration: the name is not required to add a provider configuration
  • Hosting Provider repository table: uses single selection
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • When upgrading the full setup wizard was shown though not needed

New in SmartGit 5 Dev 4 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Hosting Providers: ability to configure multiple accounts even for the same provider
  • Log: Branches: Delete works on multiple refs (as in project window)
  • GitHub: Refresh toolbar button is now only enabled if a GitHub account is configured
  • Details view links to GitHub webpage for the selected commit Reveal Commit now also works on Pull Requests easily switch between two different view layouts (similar to project window)
  • Project|Repository Settings is now enabled not just if the repository root directory is selected and focused, but also if files are selected/focused
  • Commit message input field: same configurable font as for text editors (Compare, Conflict Solver, ...) is used added Undo/Redo support
  • Notifications should be more obvious now updated bundled Git versions and JRE
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • GitHub:Refresh could fail if local pull requests did not have comments
  • fetching virtual Pull Request commit may have wrong primary parent
  • very inefficient query for pull request comments for repositories with a large number of pull requests
  • possible internal error in combination with comments and multiple GitHub remotes
  • query should not be interrupted in case of locally missing commits
  • possible internal error querying Pull Requests
  • Create Pull Request: did not allow to create Pull Requests for all GitHub remotes
  • Log: Branches: possible internal error toggling a Pull Request
  • Changes: multi-line comments confused display
  • Refresh:possible internal error if window is closed while a refresh is running
  • possible internal error if sub-sub-module structure changed
  • Hg: possible internal error if shelves are present
  • GUI: Annotate: possible internal error painting line numbers
  • Notification links were processed on mouse *move* (instead mouse up)
  • OS X: if all application windows were minimized and the dock icon clicked,the last minimized window was not restored

New in SmartGit 4.6.5 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Git:
  • Git-Flow:
  • internal error if remote branch name consisted only of one character
  • Annotate/Blame: ignored configured encoding
  • .gitattribues: "binary" macro was not properly interpreted
  • internal error closing project window while refreshing

New in SmartGit 5 Dev 3 (Oct 15, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Git-Flow: Finish Hotfix/Release: ask whether to overwrite tag if it already exists
  • Log: View|Group Commits By Branch become a global option
  • External tools:
  • tools which use a git command will be corrected if a different git executable is selected
  • the path for the configured Git or Hg executable are added to the PATH of the launched command
  • Windows: a separate tools menu item "Open Git-Shell" is created in the setup wizard
  • SVN: detect and inform about Subversion issue #4129
  • GUI:
  • fixed font used for dialogs, e.g. for the commit message input field, can be changed now in smartgit.properties
  • Help: opens the website help (because local PDF may become outdated)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Index Editor: internal error saving working tree modification
  • Log:
  • Reveal Commit sometimes did not work
  • tri-state checkboxes did not work correcly
  • GUI:
  • Commit dialog:
  • Shift+Enter closed the dialog
  • line limit display might remain even "Use monospace-font" has been unselected
  • Edit Conflict Solver: possible modification of edited object even if pressing Cancel

New in SmartGit 4.6.4 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • if certain operations are not available on an empty repository, a better information is shown than before
  • Log: for the mergeable coloring the graph lines could not be distinguished using dark themes
  • Apply Stash: was enabled with unsuitable selection
  • Branches:
  • Set Tracked Branch failed to configure local tracked branch
  • no incoming/outgoing commit information was shown for local tracked branches
  • Submodule (SVN): Initialize did not pull repository but only HEAD
  • Hg:
  • Branches:
  • potential internal error depending on the displayed branches
  • Push was enabled even if there were no remote configured
  • GUI:
  • potential internal error when opening file or directory chooser
  • Log: resource leak fixed
  • Linux:
  • bin/add-menuitem.sh required write access and be executed in the same directory

New in SmartGit 4.6.3 (Aug 31, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Git
  • Log: virtual "merging" commit is now only displayed if "HEAD" is selected
  • Fixed Bug:
  • Git
  • Blame: possible internal error related to "strange" author names
  • Git-Flow, Finish Hotfix: error "not something we can merge" when using quotes in commit message
  • Index Editor: possible internal error when closing to quick
  • Interactive Rebase: fails if a commit with certain message would be cherry-picked (removes line with leading #)
  • Log: Reveal Commit may result in internal error for file logs
  • selected "Insignificant commits" may result in empty graph
  • Log: possible internal error for file log
  • SVN
  • error "PROPFIND (forbidden)" in case of inaccessible project root
  • UI:
  • possible sorting-related internal error ("Comparison method violates its general contract!")
  • Text editors, e.g. Compare: syntax-related error when typing with IME autoindenting lines (Enter) ignores character entered with IME
  • tooltip may hide immediately when they would show up partly outside the screen bounds

New in SmartGit 4.6.2 (Aug 7, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Blame: "Changes Since"-highlighting is derived from "read-only" background color to be compatible with dark schemes
  • Fetch More: offers "changes/" refs to allow checking out individual changes from Gerrit
  • Git-Flow Finish Hotfix: merging to develop became optional
  • Set Tracked Branch: trackable branches are sorted naturally
  • Submodule Reset: is applicable on working-tree and index-modified submodules
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log, Reveal Commit: did not work for refs which were not part of the history of the currently selected refs
  • Merge: in case of conflicts submodules were not reset
  • Pushable Commits (Git-Flow): internal error in case of certain feature-develop-constellations
  • Push (To): pushing a tag also tried a diverged check
  • Set Tracked Branch: HEAD was offered as trackable branch
  • SVN:
  • Push: a file deletion might create a new empty directory in the repository
  • GUI:
  • Clone: internal error entering one or more blanks for Repository URL and clicking Next
  • Gravatar: problems with e-mail addresses containing upper-case characters
  • Changes view: possible internal error
  • OS X:
  • Preferences, External Tool definition: *.app as command was rejected
  • Log: might not be refreshed correctly after manipulating repository in project window

New in SmartGit 4.6.1 (Jul 16, 2013)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Autoupdate: limit old versions kept to 2 (instead of 5)
  • Open Repository: make more obvious how to create a new repository
  • Pull: improved error message in case the remote (tracked) branch is removed
  • Log:
  • Details: first parent commit should always be the first item
  • Show Changes: use same accelerator as in project window (F4)
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Log: possible endless "refreshing" loop for "Lost Heads" selected
  • Project Manager: new dialog will be closed automatically
  • Pushable Commits: possible internal error related to Git-Flow
  • Rebase: did not allow to rebase range onto ancestor
  • Stash On Demand: should not use --keep-index
  • Window: Maximized state was not restored reliably
  • File Table:
  • context menu: Stage and Unstage were not shown
  • when sorting for "Index State", untracked files should not be displayed before conflicting files
  • Refresh (Hg):
  • possible performance problems related to UI
  • possible performance problems with Mercurial 2.5 repositories+
  • Refresh:
  • Git-Flow): warning message "Could not resolve commit 'refs/heads/master'." after switching to hotfix, if there is no local master
  • internal error in case of corrupted $GIT_DIR/logs/refs/stash

New in SmartGit 4.6 (Jul 4, 2013)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git-Flow Finish Feature/Integrate from develop: should not offer rebase if tracking and forced push is unselected
  • Pushable Commits: Outgoing branch commits (gray) were not properly calculated for non-tracking feature branches
  • Startup (--log): "Path not found" error when trying to open Log for repository root

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

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Documentation: section on "Outgoing" commits added
  • Merge: if selected, fast-forward merging should be forced (contrary to possible merge.ff = false configuration option)
  • Save Stash: "could not determine stash ID" warning if no stash had been created (because there were no local modifications)

New in SmartGit 4.6 RC 3 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Refresh:
  • internal error if .gitignore file contains global ** patterns
  • ** patterns in .gitignore must not be interpreted in special
  • way in Git < 1.8.2
  • Log, Add Branch: misleading text
  • File Monitor (OS X): internal error

New in SmartGit 4.5.6 (Jun 28, 2013)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • cloning a git+ssh:// repository was impossible (only worked for Mercurial)
  • Linux: Git process could hang forever though it exited (JDK bug?)
  • Hg:
  • Window|Pushable Commits was missing
  • Window|Branches did not open Branches view

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git-flow: should remember feature- and hotfix-branch name in case of failure
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git-flow: .gitflow file should be honored when initializing git-flow for an already existing repository
  • Log: graph was "jumping" after switching HEAD to another commit (if View|Group Commits By Branch was enabled)
  • Documentation has been updated.

New in SmartGit 4.5.5 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Various commands (Hg):
  • "color" extension should be enabled to avoid warnings
  • hg-executable should always be forced to work in English
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Branches view: Push/Push To should be available for untracked branches, even when there is no "origin" remote
  • Check for Updates:
  • should prompt for proxy configuration, if currently configured host is not valid
  • should report "infos" only once
  • Clone (SVN): possible problem
  • Index Editor: possible internal error when saving
  • Log:
  • dialogs did not refresh after switching between branches on the same commit
  • internal error in "Select Commit" dialog, if no commit was selected
  • Pull: sometimes dialog was just showing "and", but expanded area was remaining empty
  • Pull/Push (SSH): may fail for private key passwords containing non-ASCII characters
  • Update (Mercurial): should not move active bookmark
  • Various dialogs: possible internal error when trying to show a dialog on an already closed window
  • Windows launchers: should change working directory to the installation

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • warn before modifying already pushed commits
  • Log: group commits of distinct development lines together (instead of strictly sorting by date)
  • Push: even when using force, check whether the remote repository still points to same commit as the remote branch
  • Git-flow:
  • support for .gitflow configuration file (in working tree) helping to initialize git-flow after a clone
  • if a branch is behind its tracked branch, the user is asked whether to perform the fast-forward merge or abort the command
  • warn when trying to commit directly to master
  • "Pushable Commits":
  • renamed to "Outgoing"
  • columns for author name/e-mail (hidden by default)
  • Reverse-Merge has been renamed to Revert
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Synchronize/Push: possible internal error
  • Git-flow:
  • possible internal error when configuring
  • context-specific toolbar button: defaulted to configure though already configured (but no branch checked out)
  • Hg:
  • .hg/locks could remain when exiting while commands were running
  • Branches:
  • Git-flow-categories: if creating a new feature (, hotfix, ...) the category was not expanded correctly
  • GUI:
  • mouse hover tooltip over truncated table cells also was too narrow
  • OS X: the first row of the Log visually "jumped"

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

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Apply Stash: toolbar button shows context menu to directly apply a specific stash
  • Branches: if configured, show Git-flow-specific branches in own categories
  • Clone dialog: prefills URL input field if there is an URL in the clipboard
  • Git-Flow:
  • Configure
  • Start/Finish Feature
  • Integrate Develop
  • Finish Feature
  • Start/Finish Hotfix
  • Start/Finish Release
  • Start Support Branch
  • context-dependent "Git-Flow" toolbar button
  • Pull: smarter Rebase/Merge in case of diverged tracked branch
  • Pushable Commits: show entire feature or hotfix (not just unpushed) commits
  • Rebase: significant performance improvements on Windows, especially for XP
  • fixed location for SSH/http(s) helper scripts:
  • executable flag is not required for temp directory any more
  • no more problems with spaces in temp directory name
  • custom SmartGit-URL support: smartgit://cloneRepo/
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git
  • Branches: Set Tracking did not work for selected local and remote branch
  • Switching to origin/foo/bar branch suggested wrong local branch name (bar instead of foo/bar)
  • OS X: clicks on the dock icon had no effect, especially for no open window

New in SmartGit 4.5.4 (May 28, 2013)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • OS X: problems with Homebrew Git executables
  • Fetch More: possible internal error depending on the selection and the focus
  • Interactive Rebase did not work if smartgit.command.show was set to true
  • Log-related dialogs: internal error when closing in case of invalid HEAD
  • Compare: possible internal error comparing two files with each other
  • Blame: possible internal error
  • Linux: file watching broke after encountering inaccessible directories
  • internal error opening Git project with Hg repository (after having replaced the repository outside SmartGit/Hg)
  • possible internal error for invalid ~/.ssh/config
  • GUI:
  • internal error for CSS, Wiki and Matlab files
  • possible internal error when a window is moved automatically
  • Cherry Pick/Reverse-Merge dialogs in the Log (for selected merge commit) missed mnemonics
  • Switch to remote branch dialog: initial focus set incorrectly
  • Pushable Commits, Edit Message or Join: if no message, an error icon is shown without text

New in SmartGit 4.5.3 (May 17, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log: performance improvements
  • Set Tracked Branch: now also allows to *change* a tracked branch
  • Hg:
  • Compare and others: uses "ui.encoding" or "web.encoding" for displaying file contents
  • Branches: renamed "Delete" to "Close"
  • GUI:
  • ability to disable syntax coloring by setting "smartgit.textEditors.syntaxHiglighting=false"
  • ability to show executed commands by settings "smartgit.command.show=true"
  • Help|SmartGit/Hg Documentation: available for all platforms
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches, Edit URL: possible internal error
  • Ignore: did not work correctly for non-US-ASCII file names
  • Log: possible internal error in case of invalid HEAD ref
  • Pull/Sync: possible internal error reading configuration
  • Pull: error output of rebase has not been shown
  • Refresh:
  • if refresh failed because of invalid config file, no appropriate
  • error has been shown
  • possible "Unknown repository format" error
  • possible internal error after executing commands
  • nested repositories were scanned
  • Hg:
  • Log:
  • possible internal error for file log after committing a change to the
  • shown file
  • possible internal error when invoking on sub-directory
  • Query|Open was missing and consequently no tools were shown in the
  • directories context menu
  • GUI:
  • Compare and others:
  • could become slow for text files with verrrrrrry long lines
  • possible internal error related to syntax coloring
  • Pascal support did not work properly
  • Linux: newly added table columns have zero-width
  • possible memory leak while loading images

New in SmartGit 4.5.2 (May 3, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Syntax coloring: added PHP support
  • Update check: added VM property smartgit.updateCheck.oldBuildsToPreserve to limit the number of latest builds which should be locally kept
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Conflict Solver: could not be opened on "Conflicted (both added)" files
  • Ignore: empty lines and empty comments were not preserved in .gitignore
  • Log-related dialogs: possible internal error when invoking
  • various commands: Git error for old Git versions (1.7.1)
  • remote commands: process-hangs-dialog occurred even if the master-password-dialog was showing
  • Stage Hunk: possible internal error for files with inconsistent line separators
  • Hg:
  • Log:
  • non-ASCII characters of committer names were not displayed correctly
  • possible disjoint trees when logging working directory which points to older commit
  • File log: latest commit not always was displayed
  • GUI:
  • Preferences: possible internal error closing the preferences if an Blame had been opened and closed before
  • Delete was missing in the context menu for files
  • continues "Password store could not be accessed" warning if no passwords were stored

New in SmartGit 4.5.1 (Apr 29, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Commit: when invoked from Commit Message window, it should work on selected directory (not file)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Master password possibly becomes reset
  • Setup/Clone: can't access hosting providers like GitHub

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

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Blame: does not update when changing syntax colors in the preferences
  • SVN: Log: possible internal error related to duplicate stashes

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Autoupdate: additional "Show Changelog" link for notification on successful download of new version
  • Change Preview and others (Hg): performance improvements in case of large repositories
  • FIXED BUGS (Git):
  • Commit: "Commit All" option for Merge commits did not commit working tree changes of staged file
  • Compare: Connector repaint problems
  • Delete Remote Branch: inconsistent dialogs for project and log window
  • Pull (SVN): possible internal error for certain (rare) constellations
  • Push (SVN): new branches couldn't be pushed to additional Git remote
  • Setup: possible internal error when configuring hosting provider
  • Startup: problems with --log and --blame options
  • Preferences: master password should not be requested when showing the preferences
  • FIXED BUGS (Hg):
  • Startup (Log, Blame): hangs at splash screen if invalid file has been passed as command line parameter
  • Startup (Blame): possible internal error when calling for invalid file
  • Hg:
  • Refresh (Windows): possible internal error related to case-changed files
  • Compare:
  • horizontal hunk borders might draw over text depending on used font/size
  • [] buttons could be invoked by clicking with any mouse key

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Stash on demand: honors last selected "Add Untracked" option
  • Syntax coloring: support for LLVM, Matlab and Rust
  • Tools menu: added mnemonics
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Startup (Log, Blame): hangs at splash screen if invalid file has been passed as command line parameter
  • Startup (Blame): possible internal error when calling for invalid file
  • Hg:
  • Refresh (Windows): possible internal error related to case-changed files
  • Compare:
  • horizontal hunk borders might draw over text depending on used font/size
  • [] buttons could be invoked by clicking with any mouse key

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Branches: added Rebase to context menu
  • http authentication uses SmartGit's proxy configuration
  • Pull, Fetch: moved Fetch button to Pull dialog
  • Submodules: Initialize now works also for missing/empty submodules
  • Syntax highlighting: added support for Basic, Dart, Erlang, Mumps, Pascal, R/Rd and Tcl
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Changes: discarding an inner-line change did not show a confirmation dialog
  • Commit: did warn about untracked/missing files even if they are not selected automatically for commit (according to Preferences options)
  • Fetch More dialog: could become too large
  • Pull and others, stash-on-demand: asked to stash even for conflicts
  • Push To: was not available with focus in Directories
  • Conflict Solver: possible internal error when closing too quickly
  • Syntax highlighting: possible internal error
  • OS X, native SSH-client: if SSH_ASKPASS already is set, it will not set by SmartGit any more
  • OS X: Delete to Trash on a symlink deleted the target instead of the link
  • Update check:
  • Manual check: when selecting Download, the update was not started immediately
  • possible internal error in case of connection problems

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

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Blame:
  • improved performance for repositories containing many renames
  • Changes tool window:
  • added context menu entries for Stage/Unstage Hunk/Inner-line Change
  • for unresolved conflicts HEAD is shown instead of nothing
  • "HEAD" and "Working Tree" show tooltip text
  • Commit help to avoid incomplete commits:
  • warn when trying to Push but not committing all changes
  • warn when trying to commit a Merge with unstaged changes
  • Log:
  • Select Next/Previous Commit: commit selection dialog simplified
  • (File): improved performance for repositories containing many renames
  • significant performance improvements and reduced memory consumption for root logs on large repositories
  • Commits: speed search searches for refs, too
  • Mergable coloring now honors anchor
  • anchor commits are highlighted
  • Pushable Commits: performance improvements for large repositories
  • SVN:
  • support for additional Git remotes
  • External Tools: now have accelerator support
  • OS X bundle as .dmg instead of .tar.gz
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Blame:
  • possible internal error related to renamed files
  • Log:
  • log for renamed file may not load properly or not at all
  • (File): might start with wrong HEAD
  • Merge: double-clicking the toolbar button caused internal error
  • SVN:
  • Delete, Fetch More and Rename were enabled
  • Push: stashes could be duplicated
  • Docking: for some layouts tool windows sizes change slightly with each reopening of the window
  • OS X: added work-around to fix some Java-7-specific bugs
  • tooltips often were hidden too quickly
  • Syntax, Language configuration: *.h was missing from C/C++
  • progress often jumped back and force

New in SmartGit 4.0.5 (Apr 2, 2013)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Git:
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error in case of invalid admin areas
  • possible internal error related to non-ASCII characters in file names
  • switching a submodule from a branch to a commit, directory tree was not refreshed
  • Log:
  • possible internal error trying to open working tree
  • Hg:
  • http(s) repositories for which passwords were not known to Hg did not work
  • Log: sub-directory logs did not work
  • SVN:
  • Push: possible internal error related to creation of .gitconfig
  • GUI:
  • space-toggling of checkboxes in tables was broken
  • Log, Details: bold text could not be copy/pasted on OS X
  • possible internal error speed-searching with Chinese IME
  • Conflict-Solver: possible internal error applying some block

New in SmartGit 4.5 Preview 2 (Mar 25, 2013)

  • NEW FEATURES, IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Git:
  • Switch, Checkout: moved "Throwaway local changes" option as Discard-option from command confirmation dialog to "Stash-confirmation"
  • Pull, Switch, Checkout: if command fails because of local changes, stashing is offered
  • Log: double-clicking a commit for non-file-logs to checkout that commit: only "Local Branches" expanded by default
  • Tools: support for ${repositoryRootPath}
  • FIXED BUGS:
  • Annotate/Blame: did not show "before" revision of merged revisions
  • Open, Tools: import from old File tools changed order causing another tool to be opened
  • Commit, Select From Log: did not put focus reliable to message input field
  • Project Manager: remained open after opening a project with confirmation dialog
  • auto-update: internal error
  • Log:
  • newly added branch not selected by default (if stashes exist)
  • "Lost Heads" sometimes did not work

New in SmartGit 4.5 Preview 1 (Mar 22, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git
  • Add Remote: only optionally check remote server connection (to improve gitosis support)
  • Annotate/Blame:
  • more compact display of authors and dates
  • hyperlinks for SHAs
  • show newer and previous line contents
  • Show Changes
  • ability to open Log for focused line
  • Changes tool window:
  • ability to stage and unstage hunks and inner-line changes (with simple Undo support)
  • switching between HEAD-Index and Index-Working Tree using side buttons
  • Compare 2 Files: Show Changes for 2 selected files now asks what to compare
  • separate Fetch command
  • Log:
  • File log:
  • improved performance
  • irrelevant merge commits are shown only optionally
  • display merge commits for which only the size, but not the main-line has been changed
  • Branches: Reveal Commit for HEAD and stash nodes
  • Merge: shorter default commit messages (no "refs/heads/..." any more)
  • Pushable Commits: ability to open Log with commit preselected
  • File Compare, Merge: syntax coloring (colors and file types configurable in the preferences)
  • auto-update to new versions
  • configurable Tools menu items, unifying Directory Tool and File Tools, items occur in directory or file context menu
  • Search input field: ESC now clears the filter and moves focus to table
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Refresh: possible incompatibility with "git status" when core.filemode and core.symlinks are not defined at all
  • GUI:
  • a modal dialog in one window might block the work-flow in another window
  • OS X: SmartGit prevented a clean system shutdown
  • Linux: work-around for Stash-related toolbar buttons causing too wide window
  • possible internal error in combination with built-in SSH client

New in SmartGit 4.0.4 (Mar 8, 2013)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log: HEAD-ref (in Branches view) was not refreshed on change
  • Refresh:
  • directories containing git meta data might be falsly reported as submodules
  • files within submodules were not refreshed after Commit
  • internal error in case of obstructed directories
  • possible internal error related to file names only differing in composed vs. decomposed UTF-8 encoding
  • possible internal error related to submodules
  • possible internal error related to updating the Pushable Commits
  • OS X: core.precomposeunicode=true was not honored
  • OS X: umlauts did not show up properly with JRE 7
  • SVN:
  • Clone: possible internal error during "joining" phase ("git fetch" fails on Windows because of too long command line if there're too many references in the repository)
  • Clone/Fetch: possible internal error "Cannot compute branch binding"
  • GUI:
  • Log: frame title should not include SHA if it's a HEAD Log
  • Pull dialog: possible internal error related to expand-control
  • Push: should output progress
  • Startup: --blame command line did not work, if SmartGit/Hg was already running
  • Tables (Linux): table columns sometimes disappear
  • Toolbar (Ubuntu): adding Apply Stash toolbar button made the toolbar significantly wider

New in SmartGit 4.0.3 (Feb 15, 2013)

  • Blame
  • Goto Preceding Commit should be present in context menu
  • scrolling between commits should preserve caret position
  • Branches view: allow remote selection for tags
  • Log: Blame should be based on selected commit, not HEAD
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Blame: Goto Preceding Commit did not work properly
  • Branches view: Push did not honor tracked remote of local branch, but always pushed to 'origin' instead
  • Clone (SVN): background clone fails with error "Cannot find ... among log entries"
  • Startup: possible internal error when using --log parameter
  • Setup wizard: 1st option selected but disabled (e.g. with invalid license)

New in SmartGit 4.0.2 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Branches:
  • tooltip for annotated tags give information on the tag itself
  • Set Tracked Branch uses "git --set-upstream-to" for Git >= 1.8
  • GitHub: added system property "smartgit.github.url" to provide the complete URL of a local GitHub server
  • Pull: added system properties "smartgit.pull.defaultToRebase" and "smartgit.pull.defaultToRememberDefault" to have the Pull dialog default to "Rebase" and "Remember for current branch"
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • internal error when invoking purely branch-related operation (like Set Tracking) on a tag
  • missing context menu for "Other Refs"
  • Clone: possible internal error if Git reports progress > 100%
  • Push: tried to set up tracking if remote branch did not exist (e.g. because it did not fit into fetch-refspec) resulting in strange error
  • http(s) authentication problems with username containing uppercase or @ characters
  • Hg:
  • Log, Add Tag: was not enabled for public changesets
  • Windows: bundled Mercurial had web.cacerts set to wrong path
  • SVN:
  • Branches: allowed to delete special svn-attic and remote-tag refs
  • Fetch: all properties of an empty directory were lost when it became non-empty
  • Git->SVN translation: file/directory obstruction if Git has special .gitignore record and some file
  • GUI:
  • Add Remote dialog: suggested user@server:port as name if these were part of the URL
  • Changes: Next/Prev always moved focus to left editor
  • Compare editors: context menu might be empty
  • Compare: Next/Previous did not work if tool window had been maximized
  • Index Editor: toggling Ignore White Space for Line Comparison did not work
  • Notifications: possible internal error
  • Output: internal error having a child-node selected and Output is cleared (manually or implicitly when closing the project)
  • OS X: system shutdown caused SmartGit/Hg to hang preventing shutdown
  • Project Manager: current project is not preselected correctly if it had a collapsed parent node
  • Select Directory: did not select reliable

New in SmartGit 4.0.1 (Jan 25, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Pull: added system property "smartgit.pull.defaultToFetchOnly" to have the Pull dialog default to just fetching
  • Pushable Commits:
  • added system property
  • "smartgit.pushableCommits.preserveAuthorDate" to preserve author dates
  • ignore "mirror" remotes, so only-mirrored local commits will be shown
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Push/Pull might not ask for new credentials for http(s) repositories
  • possible internal error during authentication with http(s) repository
  • Add Submodule: internal error when trying to add http-submodule
  • Log:
  • file log: ref may become assigned to merge source instead of primary parent erroneously
  • "default" coloring: alternative row coloring not displayed for the graph
  • Branch Delete: did not work on tags
  • Mercurial:
  • Push/Pull (OS X) did not work for ssh repositories
  • SVN:
  • Clone (Windows): possible file-system related problems when cloning SVN repositories
  • Refresh:
  • certain tasks may be cancelled when having multiple repositories in a project
  • possible internal error after executing a command
  • Winodws: possible internal error
  • merge dialog: pressing Enter executes default button action two times
  • various commands: possible internal error if repository gets removed immediately before starting the command
  • text editors: pressing backspace at the beginning of a line might cause an internal error
  • tree control: internal error pressing Ctrl/Cmd+A if not all nodes were expanded

New in SmartGit 4 (Jan 17, 2013)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • submodule changes prevented interactive rebase commands
  • SVN:
  • on every file rename an empty directory has been created in the repository
  • File Compare: selected text of changed blocks was painted in unchanged style when unfocused

New in SmartGit 4 RC2 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Hg:
  • Log:
  • added toolbar
  • show copy source
  • Text editors:
  • added Ctrl+Space word completion
  • ability to configure whether Home/End operate on line or document
  • OS X: Ctrl+A/E, ... to move cursor
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Checkout/Merge: possible internal error for bare repositories
  • Log: possible performance problem for a lot of tags
  • Hg:
  • Log (file):
  • possible problem "Can't find file ..." for copied files
  • inefficiency related to tags
  • possible internal error
  • Customize Toolbar dialog: removing items did not add them to the available ones
  • Text editors:
  • options in the preferences did not work fully

New in SmartGit 4 RC1 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • Details: "On Branches" should only display branches and only optionally include all refs (can be enabled in smartgit.properties)
  • denotes "grafted" commits (from shallow clones or initial SVN checkout)
  • Hg:
  • Log:
  • shows history of renamed/moved files
  • added SWT libraries to support Solaris
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Choose-parent-commit-dialog (e.g. for Cherry-Picking a merge commit) could become too wide
  • Pull suggested to merge though rebase had been selected
  • File table: possible incorrect display of Relative Directory when selecting a different directory

New in SmartGit 4 Preview 10 (Dec 14, 2012)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Log: denote first commit of shallow clones
  • File Compare: selection in unfocused component is hidden
  • minor GUI improvements
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Branches: possible internal error when invoking Push
  • Clone:
  • certain bare repositories could not be cloned
  • possible internal error cloning local repository
  • Log: visually overlapping stashes
  • Changes tool window: possible internal error going to previous or next change

New in SmartGit 4 Preview 9 (Dec 7, 2012)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Branch-, Stash- and Remote-related menu items focus Branches tool window and show a message instead of just being disabled
  • Clone:
  • option to clone only one branch
  • option to clone all submodules
  • Pull: if possible, fast-forward *merge* is used even if rebase is configured (performance improvement, especially for msysgit)
  • Hg:
  • http(s) authentication: asks for username/password on demand
  • "merge" state is shown
  • Change Phase: shows an information dialog for hg-version < 2.1 instead of just failing
  • GUI:
  • Linux/OS X: file input fields have full support for ~ (home)
  • smartgit.properties: added entry for configuring the file manager used for revealing
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Codebase and Beanstalk integrations did not list Hg repositories
  • Log:
  • internal error right-clicking a commit with equally named
  • (non-current) branch and tag
  • Details view might not have been initialized
  • "all stashes" selection did not work
  • Push and Push To were available for remote branches
  • Switch: fast-forward-merge resetted submodule to commit before fast-forward checkout
  • various commands: possible "refname 'xxx' is ambigous" error
  • Hg:
  • Refresh: lock timeouts were too large
  • SVN:
  • Initialize Submodule: did not trigger background clone
  • Submodule Reset: did not work

New in SmartGit 3.0.11 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Index Editor: strange error "Prefix string too short" for one-char-filenames
  • Log:
  • possible internal error while or after closing the window
  • when invoked on submodule root, it always showed the log for the submodule regardless of the repository choice
  • possible internal error reading stash ref log
  • Hg:
  • Log: internal error invoking Log on working directory which is located on symlink
  • Refresh (Windows): possible internal error with repository on a network share
  • Tag Browser: internal error when invoking on empty repository
  • Refresh: possible internal error related to file monitor
  • GUI:
  • internal error dragging one project to another window
  • notification popup: gray area remained after clicking a notification link
  • table sorting arrow was inversed to other application
  • Fedora 17:
  • add-menuitem.sh caused SmartGit to handle all menu item clicks
  • Windows 7:
  • different SmartGit versions showed up on same taskbar icon

New in SmartGit 4 Preview 8 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Commit: if the message template contains comment lines (those starting with #), comment lines from the entered commit message will be removed
  • various commands: when resetting submodules, new commits should be fetched if necessary
  • Log:
  • "Lost Heads" only works for heads which have no ref assigned
  • Pushable Commits:
  • displayed commit count is limited; the default of 100 commits can be changed with the smartgit.pushable-commits.limit VM property
  • Reveal in File Manager (Windows): did not work if file path contained spaces
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Log:
  • for selected "Stashes" category, stashes were not displayed reliable
  • for selected "Local Branches" category, tracked remote branches were not automatically selected
  • Refresh flickered when Lost Heads are shown
  • internal error if multiple stashes were located on same commit
  • Create Branch + Switch: did not reset submodules
  • Hg:
  • Log: branch selection was lost

New in SmartGit 4 Preview 7 (Nov 28, 2012)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Branches:
  • show Stashes
  • speed search matches within text, not only at the beginning
  • Log:
  • Branches:
  • show Stashes option to hide HEAD if other refs are selected
  • option to show lost heads replacing Query|Load All Commits
  • Cherry-Pick: remembers whether Commit was invoked before
  • Stash actions (Save, Apply, Drop)
  • View|Show Stages Files: will be reset with each project opening to prevent forgetting about staged files
  • support for shallow cloned repositories
  • Hg:
  • if cloning a http(s) repository fails, a more useful information is given how to avoid it
  • Log:
  • Add Tag
  • Compare, Index Editor, Conflict Solver:
  • indicator for the visible area in the change stripe
  • Log:
  • Select Next/Previous Commits: removed Shift from default accelerator
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Blame did not open for file if a log for the file was open
  • Log:
  • Reveal Commit: did not work reliable
  • empty remote node could not be selected
  • branch selection was lost when opening subdirectory or file log
  • possible internal error related to stashes
  • no refresh after having dropped a stash
  • Log
  • Branches: could not toggle checkbox with space key
  • when switching from an old to a very recent branch, intermediate commits might not be loaded resulting in two disjoing graphs
  • graph arrows showed wait cursor instead hand cursor
  • SVN:
  • Refresh: don't issue warning notification for repositories for which EOL-processing had been turned off intentionally
  • internal error when joining
  • OS X:
  • serious performance problem while the Output tool windows was showing, especially when pulling
  • checkbox tree: the accepted click-rectangle was not identical with the drawn checkbox
  • several internal errors

New in SmartGit 4 Preview 6 (Nov 20, 2012)

  • New Features, Improvements:
  • Git:
  • Add Remote:
  • ability to choose repository from hosting provider
  • suggests name
  • Pull: suggest to merge local commits instead of rebasing, if there would be a merge commit affected
  • Hg:
  • Branches: - added Merge
  • Cherry-Pick
  • SVN:
  • Clone: support for authorsfile (set VM variable smartgit.svn.authorsfile)
  • Annotate:
  • shows line number at the right side of the gutter
  • context menu to copy ID and details
  • Branches: use green triangle to indicate current branch
  • Changes: show autohiding popup when previous/next change reached begin/end
  • Delete: support for system trash
  • Pushable Commits: ability to copy ID and message
  • Windows: portable bundle now also contains 64-bit SWT library
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • submodule initialization was broken
  • Sync: did not ask for merge/rebase configuration when not yet set up
  • Hg:
  • commit messages with non-US-ASCII characters where not stored
  • correctly in the repository
  • Log:
  • for file logs, many commands were not available
  • possible internal error invoking in rebasing state
  • Merging/Rebasing state not displayed (regression)
  • Strip: aborted with error if mq-extension was not enabled
  • error "Can't use constants like WORKING_COPY or BAD_REVISION" for
  • file logs, if bookmarks were present
  • Pull: internal error when invoking for purely local repository
  • SVN:
  • internal error opening git-svn repository
  • showed merge/rebase configuration though only rebase is useful
  • Branches: all refs where selected sometimes
  • Out-of-memory problem might show misleading instructions
  • Pushable Commits: Edit Commit Message dialog was too small and did not remembered size
  • OS X: right-clicking a different item while a context menu already was
  • showing caused an empty context menu
  • Linux: a modal dialog did not block access to the parent window's menu

New in SmartGit 3.0.10 (Sep 22, 2012)

  • FIXED BUGS:
  • OS X:
  • unified toolbar seems to prefer to be 1200 pixels wide SWT-bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=387864
  • selecting one of previous n-th selected files does not propagate the selection change SWT-bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=355200
  • Git:
  • .gitconfig with UTF-8 BOM (EF BB BF) was not detected correctly
  • Branch Manager: rename was enabled for tags and remote branches
  • Log: internal error when changing branch selection while manipulating branches outside of SmartGit (hovering over the (...) tag/branch does not show a tooltip)
  • SVN:
  • user could enter "git-svn-id:" signature in commit messages
  • possible re-occuring credential and fingerprint dialogs
  • GUI:
  • internal error when dragging item from Project Manager to directory tree

New in SmartGit 3.0.9 (Aug 9, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Git:
  • Push/Pull: might use the wrong remote (non-origin)
  • Remote operations on Windows: some environment configurations (HOME vs. HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH) caused hanging Git processes
  • SVN:
  • fixed problems with background clone
  • proxy settings from ~/.subversion/servers were not honoured
  • GUI: internal error in background task manager

New in SmartGit 3.0.8 (Jul 30, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • File Compare/Conflict Solver: internal error when invoking Take Block too frequently
  • Hg: internal error when invoking on a repository which has no HEAD
  • Manage Remotes (Git): adding remotes to a SVN repository was possible
  • Open Repository (Hg): allowed to open sub-directory of a repository
  • OS X: starting SmartGit on a fresh OS X 10.7 or 10.8 silently failed, now requesting to install Java
  • Pull (Git): when invoked on project root for multiple repositories, "null" was shown instead of "origin" in the remote combobox
  • Push (Hg): bad dialog layout in case of multiple remotes
  • Refresh (Git): deleting a directory did refresh the directory tree, but not the file table
  • Log:
  • internal error if repository was (temporarily) invalid
  • Windows: navigating to previous/next commits did not update the selection and focus correctly
  • Git:
  • "Repository needs cleanup" popped up on every refresh
  • Windows: .gitconfig was not found if HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH did not match USERPROFILE

New in SmartGit 3.0.7 (Jun 27, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • GitHub integration: not only "my" repositories are listed, but also those where I'm working on
  • Bitbucket integration
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • GitHub integration did not work any more (GitHub deactivated the used API)
  • executable files with mode != 755 might show up as modified
  • Delete might not just delete a directory symlink, but also the complete directory structure
  • Log: possible internal error for commits without set author/committer
  • for small screen sizes the project window might have been smaller than the screen size (hint: remove unused buttons from the toolbar)
  • internal error trying to open the same project from two Welcome dialogs

New in SmartGit 3.0.6 (Jun 15, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • full-screen support for OS X 10.7
  • Push (Hg): option to push only current branch
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Apply Stash: double clicking an entry did not invoke the default button's action
  • Branch Manager (Git): possible internal error when repository was removed while dialog was open
  • Clone (Windows): did not work if source or target directory was UNC-path
  • Clone (SVN): did not work when branches contained spaces in their name
  • Commit (Hg): might fail if commit message contained non-ASCII characters
  • Compare: search and replace did not work correctly internal error applying changes too quickly
  • Conflict Solver (Hg): internal error
  • Copy to Clipboard: internal error if too much text was selected
  • Log: internal error closing the window for certain layouts internal error hovering the mouse over the graph
  • Log (Hg): for a merge commit, file changes were displayed to the wrong parent tag-fetching of file logs blocked other operations possible internal error
  • Log (Git): fixed possible internal error when invoked from command line might remain empty (caused by stash containing an untracked node) stashes containing untracked nodes may not show up properly Save As: showed two warning dialogs when selecting an existing file file log: commits for which only mode has been modified did not show up
  • Merge/Cherry-Pick (Git): system property "smartgit.submoduleUpdate.updateForAdvancedOperations" did not work properly
  • OS X: fixed certain SWT bugs
  • Refresh (Hg, OS X): problems with non-ASCII characters in file names
  • Refresh (Git): possible hang if repository contains large files
  • Various commands (Hg): did not work any more after closing and reopening another project in the same window

New in SmartGit 3.0.5 (May 24, 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
  • Refresh (Linux): a notification is shown if file-monitoring does not work due to inotify limits
  • 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
  • Linux: on KDE the tool window sizes were not remembered reliable
  • 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
  • OS X: SmartGit did not start with Java 7
  • 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 Linux: could be extremely slow (because all file contents were checked) 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

New in SmartGit 3.0.4 (Apr 23, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Log, Details: shows author's email address now as tool tip
  • Pushable commits: when quitting/exiting don't warn for commits in non-tracking branches
  • Switch (Git): performance improvement for remote repositories with many refs
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Branch Manager: internal error when closed too quickly
  • Changes tool window: jumped back to first change when window was resized, if located inside a tab, content was not updated when selecting the Changes tool window tab
  • Clone (SVN): possible error of "git repack"
  • Discard (Hg): did not work on modified files for merge commits
  • GUI (OS X): maximizing a window did not remember the correct size
  • Log: did not stop loading content of previously selected files if no commit was selected any more
  • Log (Git): possible internal error for commits with huge commit message
  • Log (Hg): endless loading-loop once initial commit had been reached, for merge commits, the Changes view might compare against the wrong parent revision
  • Pull (SVN): possible internal error
  • Push (SVN): "directory already exists" error when pushing directory creation in an empty directory
  • Refresh (Git): after fast-forward merging, a changed submodule was not reported as modified
  • Refresh (Hg): backslash in .gitignore was incorrectly interpreted
  • Submodule Init/Register: problems with 'user@host:/path'-URLs
  • Submodule Reset: possible internal error
  • Switch (Git): hangs for https repositories with (msys)Git 1.7.9.2 or newer
  • Warning dialogs: possible internal error

New in SmartGit 3.0.3 (Mar 30, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Log: tracked/tracking branches use puzzle-tile look, not only when similar named
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes tool window:
  • showed wrong file length/SHA for "too large" files
  • internal error for large files pressing Refresh
  • Clone:
  • internal error modifying the URL so a double slash occurred, e.g. ssh://server:22/path//project
  • internal error trying to clone a local Hg repository
  • docking: internal error switching to a tool window while another one was maximized
  • Log:
  • did not continue to load when filtering
  • OS X: showed blank message tool tip
  • Push: internal error pushing to SVN
  • Refresh:
  • Hg: internal error related to non-ASCII file names
  • Hg: .hgignore problems
  • huge files showed up as modified
  • internal error if repository contained invalid file names, e.g.
  • "foo::bar"
  • OS X: possible problems with fle names containing special characters (composed vs. decomposed UTF-8)
  • OS X, Linux: symlinks showed up as modified if core.symlinks=false
  • severe performance problems
  • Windows: upper-case submodules were not refreshed correctly
  • SSH: password for password authentication was not remembered when master password was used
  • Stage: did not work for symlinks pointing to submodules
  • Submodules with .git file with relative path (e.g. ../../foo) were not recognized
  • miscellaneous:
  • OS X: file completion dialog remined open when the file dialog was shown
  • internal error accessing disposed control
  • internal error opening Switch dialog (caused by duplicate column information)
  • thread leak while scrolling file table using cursor keys

New in SmartGit 3.0.2 (Mar 13, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Changes tool window: "Previous Change" did not work for added block at the end of a file when the focus was at the other side
  • Clone (SVN): needs-to-join-notification after cloning all except the latest commit was closable
  • internal error while exiting from the system tray and a welcome dialog was shown
  • Log (Git): Save As was not enabled for files on initial commit
  • several internal errors
  • View|Table Columns: internal error while drag and drop
  • when registering the license file in first setup wizard run, SmartGit was asking for the license on each restart

New in SmartGit 3.0.1 (Mar 9, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Branch Manager, Tags:
  • renamed column "Tag ID" to "Tag Message"
  • show the ID behind the tag message
  • Notifications: when moving the mouse over an auto-hiding notification popup, the full popup will be shown
  • Windows 2000: gdiplus.dll was required (launching with Java 1.6)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Apply Stash: pressing Return invoked "Apply" even if "Apply & Drop" was the default button
  • Assembla support: failed for accounts with Git and SVN repositories
  • Branch Manager (and similiar dialogs like Switch): empty Date column cells were sorted incorrectly
  • Changes tool window:
  • did not correctly scoll change into view when it was made visible while a file was already selected
  • "Previous Change" did not work for added block at the beginning of a file when the focus was at the other side
  • Cleanup: sometimes the loose object count did not decrease and hence the "Repository needs cleanup" notification popped up again and again
  • Clone: never suggested to clone as SVN for GitHub repositories
  • Create Branch (Hg): did not refresh the working tree root
  • Log:
  • Hg: internal error when closing while a command was running
  • possible intersections of text and graph
  • Notifications:
  • popup: did not move when the parent window was moved
  • "Repository needs cleanup" notification: dead-lock when clicking "Clean Up Now" while a command was running
  • Open Repository: did not initialize new repository when adding to current project
  • Refresh:
  • internal error with broken submodules
  • obsolete directories could remain
  • SVN:
  • Clone/Fetch: could fail under certain conditions
  • Push: internal error when branch to merge already contained svn:mergeinfo with a line that is outside the cloned SVN URL
  • tree widgets: internal error
  • various commands: internal error when repository contained commits with invalid charset

New in SmartGit 3.0 (Mar 2, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh (Hg):
  • symlinks were always reported as modified
  • possible internal error
  • Push (Hg): displays error if no commits were pushed (Mercurial 2.1)
  • Built-In SSH-Client: internal error
  • internal error related to drag-dropping tool windows to certain locations
  • File monitor: possible internal error on Windows
  • Directories tree: while loading (or sometimes after executing a command) the root node looked truncated on Windows 7
  • tables:
  • did not preserve selected object when changing sorting
  • speed search did not scroll found rows into view (regression)

New in SmartGit 3.0 RC 4 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • simple full-screen support for Windows & Linux
  • new notifications are shown for a short time, then hide
  • Refresh: improved "response time" while opening a project
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Hg:
  • internal error "underflow"
  • mq-extension was not detected when using key "mq"
  • Refresh:
  • internal error after removing invalid repository from disk
  • when invoked manually on a submodule, the complete project was refreshed
  • did not work correctly for repositories with --separate-git-dir
  • Log: when scrolling down, it jumped up to selected line (regression)
  • Preferences, Assembla support: after having provided credentials, reopening the preferences showed unselected assembla checkbox
  • Conflict Solver: internal error editing content
  • Pushable Commits: after pushing some commits, the list was not correctly refreshed
  • Changes tool window: scrollbar was not correctly initialized for added file
  • file completion: pressing Tab must not put the focus to the popup
  • closing a tool window did not distribute the size correctly to remaining tool windows
  • trees: selection box was painted to narrow to the text

New in SmartGit 3.0 RC 3 (Feb 20, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log:
  • stashes containing untracked files were not displayed
  • Cherry-Pick:
  • for multiple selected commits, just one commit was created (in contrast to command line Git)
  • multiple commits were cherry-picked in reverse order resulting in conflicts
  • gravatar support:
  • did not use configured proxy
  • internal error if an unsupported image format was received
  • Branch Manager:
  • for branches tracking a local branch, nothing was shown in the "Remote or Tracked Branch" column
  • did not refresh correctly resulting in truncated "Pull will bring changes" texts
  • tables:
  • fixed some problems with initial selection
  • fixed performance problem
  • OS X 10.5: could not start (now only works with Java 6 selected in the Java Preferences)
  • OS X 10.5: built-in SSH client hang when remote SSH server was unknown

New in SmartGit 3.0 RC 2 (Feb 15, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • OS X launcher: now uses /usr/libexec/java_home to detect the selected Java version
  • Commit: shows warning when trying to commit individual files or directories when in merging state
  • Branch Manager: "Set Tracked Branch" now has branch selector
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • if only Mercurial was configured, a warning dialog requested to configure Git
  • Commit (SVN): file selection must not be editable in cherry-picking state
  • Switch dialog (and others): did not remember column selection and sorting on Linux
  • log.txt was written to the root directory (for users who used SmartGit 3 preview build before the RC 1)
  • docking: layout did not preserve dockable size for some layouts
  • some tables (Windows): focused row did not match selected row
  • Conflict Solver: final Stage did not refresh staged file immediately, but only through background Refresh
  • Ubuntu: hard to read text for the current branch in Switch dialog

New in SmartGit 3.0 RC1 (Feb 14, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • information about hanging Git process occurred even when using the internal SSH client and Git did not show some output (increased default timeout to 5min, VM option smartgit.process.timeout in seconds)
  • Linux: Open did not work for text files
  • Log, Details tool window: did not show highlight if focused
  • Setup wizard: option "Use SmartGit as SSH client" did not work
  • Hg: internal error double clicking and added file
  • Conflict Solver: internal error while scrolling
  • Output-Tree, Windows: copying multiple lines used wrong line separator

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 12 Early-Access (Feb 6, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • allow the user to kill a hanging Git process, esp. with using the system SSH client
  • Log: moved Refresh toolbar button from Graph to main (customizable) toolbar
  • Save Stash: uses --include-untracked for better performance
  • Changes toolwindow in project window: added Index Editor to context menu
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • notifications: popup was too high performance problem when hiding the notification popup several text fixes
  • Changes toolwindow: performance problem for very large files
  • Log: several performance problems did not refresh for submodule repositories
  • Project Manager: opening a project in new window caused current window to stay on foreground
  • Open Repository: could not open Git or Hg project if there was a .svn directory
  • Conflict Solver, Index Editor: "Show line numbers" option did not work
  • Refresh: sumbodule turned into "foreign" though still displayed as submodule possible missed changes in submodules (Git 1.7.7)
  • Stage: was not available on "foreign" sumodules (regression)
  • Cherry-Pick: failed to update .git/SMARTGIT_PENDING_MESSAGE for submodules
  • Add Submodule: "URL or Path" input field is now prepopulated with first suggestion
  • misleading notification about "inefficient repository configuration" for submodules cloned with Git 1.7.7
  • internal error initializing submodule
  • Edit|Customize on Hg project window: showed pure-Git commands, too
  • deleting a directory did not select its parent any more
  • Conflict Solver: internal error pressing "take left" repeatedly
  • File Compare: context menu item to apply inner-line changes was gone scrolling to next change using mouse wheel on linked center area did not work reliable
  • Merge and other dialogs: did not remember previous branch selection

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 11 Early-Access (Jan 30, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Apply Stash: remembers previously used confirmation option
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Linux: start-up crash with Java 1.7
  • Refresh:
  • uses core.ignorecase instead of operating system
  • case-insensitivity was not honoured for detection of ignored files
  • possible internal error after having a project closed with a command still running
  • SVN: is always triggered when switching back to project for which background clone is active
  • special errors like OutOfMemoryError were not handled correctly
  • Commit:
  • message editor did not had scrollbar
  • SVN: could not amend local commit

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 10 Early-Access (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Notes:
  • it is not possible to open the same repository in different projects
  • modified code of SWT classes are provided in swt-src.zip
  • New and Improved Features:
  • a couple of modal information dialogs were replaced by notifications (status bar icon left to the progress bar)
  • Log:
  • improved filtering (contains instead of starts-with, case insensitive, filter by SHA ID)
  • coloring toolbar buttons were replaced with better understandable combobox
  • more accelerators were added, some changed to be more consistent
  • Conflict Solver: added toolbar buttons for next/previous conflict
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • file table context menu: a couple of menu items like Delete were not shown
  • Log:
  • clicking at previous commit arrow did nothing if target commit was not yet loaded
  • internal error when invoked on empty repository (regression since 3 EA 8)
  • Refresh was enabled while refreshing
  • internal error (/ by zero)
  • various possible multi-threading-related problems
  • paint problems for connected puzzle tiles
  • Select Shown Branches dialog: sorting by name was broken
  • OS X: problems with comming messages containing unicode characters
  • Hg-Commit: "Select from Log" was enabled for initial commit
  • Pull: internal error when invoked on uninitialized submodule
  • Clone (SVN):
  • possible internal error
  • cancelled initial clone was not continued after restarting SmartGit
  • Refresh: after commands, changes were not refreshed properly for repositories with --separate-git-dir
  • execution of root-related tasks (e.g. cleanup, continued clone) was not reliable for submodules
  • GitHub account dialog: after authorization failure, password had to be reentered again
  • GitHub: did not use repository owner to create URL
  • Switch: did not reset cherry-picking state
  • OS X: right-clicking the directory tree did not move focus
  • Linux: speed-search popup had ugly border

New in SmartGit 2.1.7 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Add Submodule: should invoke "submodule add" instead of "clone" to have 1.7.7 submodules in proper format
  • Clone (SVN):
  • always fails if non-trunk branch to checkout is specified
  • "cannot resolve reference" while checking for large .gitattributes
  • problem when trying to clone from SVN 1.7 servers
  • possible internal error in "joining" phase
  • Log: "Files" display may hang due to very expensive rename-detection
  • Pushable Commits:
  • all commits with the same timestamp as the selected commit were pushed
  • didn't show commits of local branch any more
  • should honor tracking branch configuration
  • Refresh: possible internal errors
  • Status Bar: "Cloning" tooltip did not display

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 9 Early-Access (Jan 17, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Apply Stash: turned "Drop after successful apply" checkbox into "Apply & Drop" button
  • Branch Manager: shows SVN attic branches
  • Hosting providers: added assembla support
  • Push: added Preferences option to enable forced push
  • Reset: does not remember selected option automatically, but adds a "Remember as default" checkbox
  • Tool window drag and drop: visual feed-back
  • File context menu: added Conflict Solver
  • Clear Output: also clears first item if it has been finished more than 2s ago
  • tables, trees: supports Ctrl+C for copying content
  • for SVN repositories, the repository root node now shows the currently checked out revision with branch
  • Log:
  • remembers current branch selection (not just all vs. working tree)
  • Select Shown Branches dialog: added filter
  • Merge: re-introduced merge-to-working-tree option, even if fast-forward is possible
  • Merge & Commit: branch of selected commit is used for commit message
  • re-introduced clicking arrows to navigate to previous/next far distant commit
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Hg, Show Changes: internal error when invoked on added file
  • previously used perspective was not remembered (regression since 2.1)
  • various VM options did not work
  • startup: internal error when passing Hg repository path as command line parameter
  • Manage Remotes: error dialog automatically disappeared immediately after adding an invalid remote
  • Hg, switching projects: did not clear Output
  • Push & Commit (SVN): tried to push all instead of just the current branch
  • Ubuntu 11.10: different tables has wrong background color for selected, unfocused cells
  • Log:
  • internal error after cherry-picking an SVN commit
  • "jumped" on opening when "All branches" were selected
  • missing roots were not displayed correctly
  • Remove Repository: internal error when invoked on invalid repository
  • exit:
  • possible internal error
  • possible dead-lock
  • Refresh: Windows:
  • internal error when opening a repository located at UNC path
  • directory tree might unexpectedly collapse

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 8 Early-Access (Jan 9, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Branch Manager:
  • reworked for Mercurial, too
  • Git: improved speed-search ("foo" will find "foobar" as well as "origin/foobar")
  • automatically resize columns
  • remember separate column order for SVN repositories
  • only very few columns are shown initially
  • Preferences, Authentication: shows information about used client-certificates
  • SVN: https-protocol: immediately checks passphrase of client-certificate
  • Clone: asks for repository type if ambigous (to prevent hangs)
  • Linux and OS X: ability to configure memory without the need to edit the launcher scripts - by setting the environment variable SMARTGIT_MAX_HEAP_SIZE (default: 256m)
  • Query|Show Changes: now works on multiple selected files
  • Log, Changes tool window: added Copy item to context menu
  • file/directory input fields: completion pops up on any typed character, not just for (back)slashes
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log:
  • internal error for Select Shown Branch dialog with a detached head
  • double clicking on graph worked even for directory/submodule logs
  • still showed previous head after amending commits
  • clearing the filter kept the selection on the wrong commit
  • Cherry-Pick & Commit:
  • internal error when selecting multiple commits
  • did not preserve author and date
  • Hg, Commit:
  • internal error for initial commit
  • did not allow to commit an empty merge commit
  • SVN repositories: authentication information was stored for repository path, not repository root
  • refresh:
  • Git: no refresh was triggered after externally invoking "git update-index assume-unchanged"
  • internal error switching back to SmartGit
  • did not refresh recursively after modifying .gitignore or .hgignore
  • internal error adding an SVN submodule
  • internal error when closing hosting provider dialog too quickly
  • project with multiple repositories: when selecting root, selection was
  • extended to all files matching the previously selected names
  • Changes preview: might became empty in case of frequent file changes
  • background cloning an SVN submodule could not be cancelled when closing the project
  • Changes tool window: still showed file content after the selection was gone (e.g. after committing all when only showing committable files)
  • file compares: change stripe sometimes did not show changes
  • Ubuntu: hard-to-read colors where used for completion popups
  • some tooltips showed raw HTML
  • preferences dialog did not remember size

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 7 Early-Access (Jan 3, 2012)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Branch Manager:
  • separated in Branches and Tags tabs
  • more compact branch display (similar to Switch)
  • improved speed-search
  • automatic clean-up: is now performed only when idle, not directly when opening a project
  • Push advanced dialog: checkbox-list; log-like branch and tag display
  • Switch dialog: improved speed-search
  • Log, Delete dialog (if there are multiple deletable references): log-like branch and tag display
  • Setup wizard: can find hg executable in path and lets the user configure it manually
  • Linux: added shell scripts to add and remove menu items
  • ability to hide splash screen by setting the VM option smartgit.ui.splashscreen to false
  • Linux: prefilled text input fields had caret at begin, now at the end
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commit: internal error when trying to commit merge result
  • Edit Last Commit Message: did amend index changes, too
  • Hg, Log: internal error when trying to open Log for subrepository
  • Hg: internal error opening an empty Hg repository
  • Clone: internal error when cancelling SSH authentication
  • Manage Remotes: internal error when opening
  • Linux, Log: dock tabs were still too large on some Ubuntu themes
  • Git, Log: for merge commits, the wrong parent was colored in single-branch coloring mode

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 6 Early-Access (Dec 28, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Commit:
  • replaced Push checkbox with Commit & Push button
  • disallow amending commits which have been pushed to SVN repository
  • Add Tag: ability to push tag
  • Push (with Git 1.7.7): uses --recurse-submodules=check by default to prevent push commits referring to unpushed submodules
  • Rebase: remembers selected head-to vs. to-head option
  • Switch: more compact branch display
  • project window: ability to hide toolbar (View|Show Toolbar)
  • Log, Select Shown Branches dialog:
  • uses checkbox-list instead of multi-selection-list
  • shows tracking/tracked information in icon
  • Log:
  • "Single Branch Coloring", "Set Anchor" supports multi-selection
  • by default, "Date" instead of "Commit Date" column is shown
  • toolbar support (though nearly no icons)
  • dialogs with multiple confirmation buttons: confirmation buttons have mnemonics
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Mac: busy waiting resulted in 100% CPU load for one core (file monitor)
  • Refresh:
  • events could be missed (Windows)
  • endless internal errors for conflicted submodules
  • Hg:
  • hgext.eol was not recognized
  • internal error
  • Checkout, Switch: was not enabled for non-empty repositories with invalid HEAD
  • Clone: internal error when cancelling SVN authentication
  • Log:
  • internal error switching shown branches
  • internal error for detached HEADs
  • Copy Message: used wrong line separator on Windows
  • "Single Branch Coloring" did not include merged branches
  • ref-summary popup with single "origin" entries
  • Details tool window: mouse-wheel did not work on Windows
  • internal error drag-and-dropping tool window
  • scrolling bug in tables after adding new column (cells remained empty until selected)

New in SmartGit 2.1.6 (Dec 19, 2011)

  • Clone: problems when cloning GitHub repository (Git protocol should be preferred over SVN protocol)
  • Submodules: compatibility issue with Git 1.7.7 submodules

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 5 Early-Access (Dec 19, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Log:
  • reworked Details tool window making the Message tool window obsolete
  • more compact branch display, visually differences between local-only branches, tracking local branches, remote-only branches and tracked remote branches
  • Log embedded in dialogs:
  • moved refresh button to context menu
  • added Copy menu items to context menu
  • Hg, Commit:
  • amend feature using MQ extension
  • log chooser for selecting previous commit message
  • double click to open compare
  • Clone: more robust repository type detection
  • drag and drop to rearrange tool windows
  • Preferences, Customize dialogs: remember opened page
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • refresh (Windows): could miss some files
  • refresh (OS X): files with names containing certain special characters were
  • displayed as missing/unversioned pair
  • maximizing/restoring tool window: lost focus
  • menu items with accelerator did not had mnemonics
  • Hg:
  • unresolved conflicting files might not have been detected
  • on Windows ~\Mercurial.ini was not used
  • internal errors opening an empty repository
  • Commit: when in merging state, deselecting files was possible
  • interrupted refresh could skip subtrees after resuming
  • toolbar buttons did not show accelerators
  • Compare and others: Find Next did not work correctly
  • massive flickering switching between Hg/Git the first time
  • Conflict Solver:
  • could not delete a conflicting bloc by clicking [X]
  • did not detect reliable that all conflicts were solved
  • different internal errors

New in SmartGit 2.1.5 (Nov 30, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Open Working Tree: when user selects an SVN repository, explain how to
  • use SmartGit's SVN support instead of suggesting to initialize Git
  • working tree
  • Push (SVN): show more details on lossy merge
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Built-in SSH client: if neither password nor public-key authentication
  • is supported, the authentication dialog still occurs
  • Changes view: more reasonable error message in case of large files
  • Check for New Version: possible internal error when using proxy which
  • requires password authentication
  • Cherry Pick (SVN): parent commit should not be selectable (it will
  • always be the first parent which is merged)
  • Clone:
  • for Beanstalk, possible bad composition of URL
  • possible internal error when using API token instead of password
  • SVN: if .gitattributes support is turned off, core.autocrlf is not
  • properly re-configured, possibly resulting in CRLF files stored in
  • the SVN repository
  • SVN (Mac): possible internal error when cloning repositories
  • containing files with certain special characters
  • Log
  • Cherry-pick (SVN) should warn in case of lossy merges
  • possible internal error on Refresh
  • Save As: wrong directory preselected in file chooser
  • Merge:
  • Cherry-pick (SVN) might report false-positive lossy merges (caused
  • by parent commits of the cherry-picked revisions)
  • graph is not refreshed after having entered/discarded "Merging" state
  • Push (SVN): "checksum mismatch" when pushing changes to a file with
  • svn:eol-style set to "CRLF"
  • Rebase:
  • possible internal error
  • Refresh:
  • EOL-only modifications are not displayed in certain situations
  • files with CRLF in repository may be reported as modified when
  • using autocrlf=true
  • Mac OS: .gitignore/.gitattributes should be read with UTF-8 encoding
  • possible internal error for invalid HEAD
  • Submodule status (SVN): sometimes "URL mismatch" is shown instead of
  • valid state

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 4 Early-Access (Nov 28, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • basic Mercurial support
  • tables (where appropriate): right-click the table header to configure visible columns
  • View|Staged Files: ability to hide staged files which are not locally modified
  • Log: support for multi-line commit messages similar to "git log --pretty=oneline"
  • built-in SSH client: simple support for keyboard-interactive authentication
  • Push Advanced is now visible in the context menu for submodule roots
  • Fixed Bugs
  • multi-monitor use: initially, windows were shown on multiple monitors
  • Log:
  • inefficient refresh after invoking a command
  • switching branches (especially from Working tree to All), not all entries were loaded
  • Project|Working Tree Settings: did not work for missing working trees
  • Push: multi-line Git error messages were appended to one hard-to-read line in the Output

New in SmartGit 2.1.4 (Nov 3, 2011)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone: internal error when entering URLs with certain syntax for "Repository URL" (regression)
  • Refresh: internal error when working copy is located at drive root

New in SmartGit 2.1.3 (Oct 31, 2011)

  • Cherry Pick: system property "smartgit.cherry-pick.sha-prefix" to enable and specify prefix for appending of SHA to cherry-picked commit message
  • Clone (SVN):
  • file://-protocol should not be supported
  • branches/branchname should be mapped to ref/remotes/svn/branches/branchname instead of just refs/remotes/svn/branchname to avoid problems if a branch 'trunk' exists.
  • Various commands (Windows): git output parsing should assume UTF-8

New in SmartGit 2.1.2 (Oct 27, 2011)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone: cloning Git repository using file:// protocol did not work
  • Compare:
  • internal error when invoking Replace
  • backward searching: at beginning of document the user was asked whether to start from beginning
  • Internal errors might not be reported anymore for Java 7
  • Push Advanced: configuring tracking for selected branch(es) did not work
  • Refresh (on frame activation): should not refresh when switching between SmartGit windows
  • Setup:
  • new evaluation is not possible, if older version had been evaluated earlier
  • possible internal error when configuring Git executable
  • Tag Browser: possible internal error

New in SmartGit 3.0 Build 2 Early-Access (Oct 25, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Log: single-branch coloring for easier visual tracking of the current branch
  • Log, Merge: splitted dialog into 2 more appropriate, context dependent dialogs
  • Switch: remembers the state of the merge-from-tracking-branch option
  • Linux file watcher (if using Java 7)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • could not launch SmartGit on Linux with 64-bit VM
  • OS X: project window could not be made smaller
  • Log:
  • text and graph could intersect sometimes
  • graph was painted over text for wider graphs
  • internal error when closing
  • Commit, Message Chooser for SVN repository: could not scroll using wheel mouse or scrollbar (always scrolled back to first item)
  • Commit (multiple working copies): no button was shown to select previous commit message from Log (now it is shown but disabled)
  • Commit: file completion did not work after '('
  • internal error when closing the tag branch browser while scanning
  • Index Editor, Conflict Solver: change indicators were off by one pixel

New in SmartGit 2.1.1 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Push Advanced: remembers non-default remote branch
  • Refresh (Linux): refreshs onn frame activation
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh:
  • internal error in combination with submodules
  • internal error if working tree was located at drive root
  • Clone (SVN): internal error
  • Push Advanced: asked for tracking configuration when pushing to non-default remote branch
  • OS X: clicking "Purchase Update" buttons did nothing

New in SmartGit 2.1 (Oct 14, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Pull/Initialize: should perform submodule initialization recursively
  • (except when initializing just a single submodule)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Bugreport window: email button was not shown on Linux
  • Clone (SVN):
  • background clone was not resumed on restart if credentials are
  • required and master password is used
  • Clone/Fetch (SVN):
  • internal error if tags/branches were copied as a whole directory
  • spaces and '#' in svn:eol-style and svn:mime-type could result
  • in unparsable .gitattributes lines
  • svn:ignore containing '\r' was not properly processed
  • Refresh: "text=auto" in .gitattributes was not handled properly

New in SmartGit 2.1 RC 1 (Aug 26, 2011)

  • Hosting providers: Codebase integration broken for recent Codebase API changes
  • Log: irrelevant merge commits are reported for sub-directory logs (regression since 2.0.4)

New in SmartGit 2.0.6 (Jul 27, 2011)

  • On OS X 10.7 the file watcher was broken
  • Pull (submodules): internal error if submodule is set to ref which should be forwarded to updated remote ref
  • Fixed handling of line separators (in order of precedence):
  • use line endings of the file as present on disk
  • if file has no line endings, or mixed line endings, determine "eol" attribute for .gitattributes
  • if not found, use value specified by core.eol
  • if not found, use system line separator
  • This holds true for all editors except of the built-in basic editor which is invoked on Open. This one will use line endings as on disk, or system line endings otherwise.

New in SmartGit 2.1 Alpha 1 (Jul 16, 2011)

  • Fixed Bugs - Pushable Commits: pushable commits are displayed despite of detached HEAD

New in SmartGit 2.0.5 (Jul 6, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • documentation: added section about directory and file states
  • built-in SSH client: improved support for personal firewalls
  • set the VM-property smartgit.sshClient.scriptPath to an existing directory path (without spaces on Windows) to define the location where the temporary scripts will be stored
  • set the VM-property smartgit.sshScript.maxCount to a maximum number of scripts
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Pushable Commits: push did use force option and hence might have overwritten remote changes
  • Log:
  • performance bottleneck for many stashes
  • internal error when parsing malformed author-information
  • merge commits might have not been displayed for subdirectory logs
  • Refresh:
  • Linux, Mac: files with executable bit set were always displayed as modified when using Java 1.5
  • failed in case of conflicts in .gitmodules
  • internal error related to submodules
  • internal error when directory was replaced by symlink
  • various commands: internal error when working tree was located at file system root
  • Pull/others: submodules were not properly updated
  • Push: warning about missing "origin" even if there is just one remote
  • Push Advanced:
  • internal error when entering ':' as port of non-default remote branch
  • "Current branch was selectable even if there was no current branch
  • Show Changes: error for added files which are modified in the working tree
  • built-in SSH client:
  • constantly recurring finger print dialog for upper-case host names
  • internal error in case of invalid "host key algorithm" wish list
  • Clone:
  • internal error when invoking "Select from "
  • internal error when trying to clone webdav-repository
  • Clone/Add Submodule: internal error if URL contained duplicate //
  • Linux: kept selection visible in text fields when losing focus

New in SmartGit 2.0.4 (Apr 5, 2011)

  • Improvements:
  • Branch Manager: show tag-ID and message (only for annotated tags)
  • Linux: use xdg-open to open URLs in the default browser
  • Setup: git-executable from default settings should be honored
  • Sync: show warning, if merge/rebase had not been performed because it's switched off
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Branch Manager:
  • possible internal error when trying to delete a remote branch
  • scroll position was reset on every asynchronous update
  • Clone: possible internal error when trying to clone SVN repository via svn+ssh://
  • Commit: "~" in "commit.template" path not properly processed
  • Index Editor: saved file with default line separators instead of original separators
  • Log:
  • Next/Previous Change did not work if two commits have been selected
  • if frame is open and minimized, it was not maximized on next Log invocation
  • possible internal error related to rename-detection
  • Preferences, Conflict Solver: after showing an error, the input field was hidden
  • Project: possible internal error when closing project window
  • Pull: did not work on multiple repositories
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal error related to file monitor
  • symlinks did not show up as modified

New in SmartGit 2.1 Build 7 Pre (Apr 4, 2011)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone/Pull (SVN):
  • error because of failing temp file deletion
  • .gitsvnextmodules was re-ordered randomly
  • internal error in case for binary properties
  • problems with spaces in tag/branch names
  • Push (SVN): wrong addition of mergeinfo
  • Refresh (file monitor): possible UI locks due to performance bottleneck
  • Refresh: possible internal error when removing the currently open repository outside of SmartGit and switching back
  • Startup: launching a new instance does not open a new project window
  • UI: menu "jumping" when opening main window

New in SmartGit 2.1 Build 6 Pre (Mar 29, 2011)

  • New and Improved Features:
  • Commit: selecting the Amend checkbox fills the commit message input field from previous commit
  • "Changes" tool window in the project window: the three existing options for showing HEAD/Index/Working Tree now don't switch automatically any more, but the new option "Automatic" does
  • Reset hard:
  • resets submodules to the registered commit, too
  • optionally (not mandatorily) fix line separators
  • Log:
  • Merge and Cherry-Pick now optionally commit the changes in case of no conflicts
  • Query|Show Changes is now also enabled if the another tool window than "Files" is focused
  • Pull: the git command output is now better parsed regarding progress
  • Push:
  • if a single remote is not named "origin", it can be pushed, too
  • SVN integration: ability to push tags (existing repositories need to be re-cloned)
  • Checkout: only warn (instead of abort) in case of submodules could not be checked out
  • Conflict solver: tries to show names of current and merged branch
  • Manage Remotes: when adding the first remote, "origin" is automatically suggested as name
  • status bar, project state: shows "Push current branch" if the current branch points to a different commit than the tracked remote branch, but the commit are already in the repository (only the branch pointer needs to be pushed)
  • added command line option "-log" to directly open the Log window
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • message dialogs, especially error dialogs after executing a command: might became larger than the screen
  • Log: warning dialogs were shown on top of project window
  • directory tree: tooltip did not show proper merge commit ID
  • Refresh after Commit: manual refresh was necessary to show committed submodule as unchanged
  • last line of Git command output might not have been displayed in Output
  • SSH authentication dialog: initially had "Password" option selected, but showed the input field for private keys

New in SmartGit 2.0.3 (Feb 9, 2011)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • SSH connection logs may pile up in temp directory
  • Refresh:
  • internal error if file/directory gots obstructured
  • .git/info/excludes was not honored if core.excludesfile exist
  • Windows: possible internal error when using Cygwin Git
  • credential dialogs:
  • if the user enters private key file name, the error message hid the information about the SSH server
  • if no private key file was known, the passphrase input field was prefocused though the one for the private key file should be
  • various submodule-related problems
  • Ignore dialog: internal error when typing invalid regular expression patterns
  • Log:
  • internal error clicking on the first commit node
  • Delete Tag/Branch dialog: internal error clicking Delete without selection
  • renames were not followed under certain conditions
  • internal error trying to open a working tree in the root of a drive (e.g. network share) on Windows
  • Clone (GitHub):
  • UI asked for API token where password should be provided causing
  • internal error when listing repositories
  • Commit: when Push option is selected, not the submodule's repository was pushed, but the parent one
  • Pull: optional initialization of submodules did not work
  • Further notes:
  • OS X: Quartz-rendering is now on by default
  • Windows: the portable bundle now includes a JRE to make it really portable

New in SmartGit 2.0.2 (Jan 8, 2011)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log: fixed internal error while content is fetched
  • internal error when invoking "Compare with Working Tree"
  • default perspective layouts were identical
  • launching SmartGit with project as command line parameter:
  • incorrectly escaped path sent to already running SmartGit instance
  • if unknown project path was used and the option "reopen last project" was set, the provided project was ignored and the last project opened
  • Codebase integration: added support for API v4
  • refresh (project state): fixed possible internal error
  • when opening a project with obsolete working tree path, an outdated message was shown
  • OS X 10.5: internal error when launching with Java 1.5

New in SmartGit 2.0.1 (Dec 26, 2010)

  • Clone: possible internal error when trying to clone Git repository over https://
  • Git executable (Windows)
  • internal error if Cygwin is used, but is not on the PATH
  • even if msysgit has been configured, cygpath.exe is sometimes invoked if present in the PATH
  • http://-protocol: confusing password prompts and authentication failures in case username is not part of URL
  • Log, Branch Chooser dialog: speed-type is broken
  • Opening project: internal error when trying to open certain working trees
  • Project window/Log: thread leak
  • Refresh:
  • possible internal errors for the initial scanning phase and the project state refresh
  • after commands certain files/directories might not be refreshed
  • Reset: added to context menu of submodule
  • Stage on a directory suggested to add ignored files

New in SmartGit 2.0 (Dec 18, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Cleanup is called too frequently
  • Refresh: internal error after opening project
  • Commit: manually entered commit message was overwritten by Git's default merge message
  • Pull: branch..rebase configuration has not been honored

New in SmartGit 2.0 Alpha 3 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • Log: "Rebase HEAD to" should not offer to rebase only single HEAD commit
  • Rebase: significantly simplified
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Branch chooser: refresh operation should be cancelled when dialog is closed
  • Log: after scrolling in the graph, file table flickered (displaying various commit contents)
  • Push Advanced: branch table was enabled even when "Push current branch" was selected
  • Pull: did not perform merge/rebase if no commits were fetched despite local branch is behind tracking branch
  • Refresh: after closing project, tree-file-structure remained
  • Refresh: uninitialized submodules were not properly displayed
  • Startup: unresponsive UI immediately after opening main window

New in SmartGit 1.5.7 (Nov 1, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • startup: when passing not yet known working tree path as argument, a new project is silently created
  • refresh: severe problems are now reported using a dialog instead of using the "present but defect" state
  • project window:
  • added menu item to reset layout
  • to not expand the working tree roots automatically, set the VM property smartgit.workingTree.expandFirstLevel to false
  • Branch chooser: to disable possible expensive evaluation of diverged commits, set the VM option smartgit.branch.evaluate-diverged-commits to false
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Conflict Solver: when scrolling horizontally after having scrolled vertically, it scrolled back to the vertical position of the caret
  • Refresh: fixed possible internal error
  • Push: tracking branch name different from local branch name has not been honoured
  • OS X: updated Quaqua to version 7.1.1 to solve a crash in the file chooser

New in SmartGit 1.5.6 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Cherry-pick: even if failed with conflict, the output node is shown green
  • OS X: VM crash when selecting something in the File chooser and an accessibility tool, e.g. Voice Over, is active
  • Log: after opening the "Changes" view and file table showed details from wrong commit internal error if branch name does not match the exact-case of the file name
  • Refresh (Windows): performance improvement
  • Refresh: internal error after having added a submodule outside of SmartGit
  • Branch Manager: was available for non-local branches, too
  • Delete tag/branch: error "dst refspec ... matches more than one"
  • Stage: did not work for ignored files

New in SmartGit 1.5.5 (Aug 10, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Internal error, because main frame is locked two times without unlocking
  • Ignores: relative path for core.excludesfile in user's .gitconfig was not used relative to the repository root
  • Sync: failed with "Could not resolve commit 'refs/remotes/origin/master' if remote repository was empty
  • Commit: in case of merged submodule, no repository selection dialog was shown
  • Compare components: after a very expensive file compare, subsequent compares did not work any more
  • Refresh: 'git update-index --really-refresh' caused files set with --assume-unchanged to be reset; replaced with 'git update-index --refresh'
  • Log: "All Branches" option was available for files and subdirectories
  • OS X: VM crash when selecting something in the File chooser and an accessibility tool, e.g. Voice Over, is active
  • OS X: removed work-around for Apple Java bug 8102825, because too much side-effects
  • OS X: unselected radio buttons were focusable
  • OS X: Work-around for critical Java Virtual Machine bug 6875866, affecting Intel Nehalem CPUs, e.g. Core i7, and possibly resulting in various strange internal errors

New in SmartGit 1.5.4 (Jun 23, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh:
  • if all merge conflicts had been resolved but not committed, the working tree did not show the merging state any more
  • fixed possible internal error
  • Git-SVN: all operations hung after completion
  • Rebase, Options page: under certain conditions no radio button was selected initially
  • Clone: wrong local path suggestion when cloning using SCP-like "URL"s
  • Cherry-pick: when cherry-picking from multiple commits and one fails, no warning was shown about not having cherry-picked all selected commits
  • Revert: failed if file had index state "Conflicted (deleted by us)"
  • Pull dialog: did not preselect the option "And initialized new submodules"
  • Show Changes: does not ask any more what to compare if the file is in conflict state after a merge, becaus ein this case no Index state is available
  • OS X: symlinks pointing to targets containing non-US-ASCII-characters were detected as modified
  • OS X: because of a Apple Java bug 8102825 a File Compare opened from the Commit dialog will be shown behind the Commit dialog; added a work-around
  • Windows-bundle with JRE: problems on non-western systems

New in SmartGit 1.5.3 (Jun 8, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • updated Quickstart guide to better describe core Git features
  • Clone or Add Submodule: if the repository location ends with .git, the local directory name is suggested without .git
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Github integration: did not show private repositories
  • Refresh:
  • internal error
  • wrong "As HEAD" state
  • on Windows files which are marked as executable in the Index were not displayed even when core.fileMode=true
  • Index modifications of "mode" bits were not detected
  • Rebase: internal error switching back and forth between "Target" and "Source" page
  • Rebase, Options page: under certain conditions no radio button was selected initially
  • if ~/.ssh/known_hosts contained invalid entries, SmartGit did not start
  • Add Submodule: added module definition in .gitmodules with \\ instead of / on Windows which caused pull to fail
  • Clone: could not clone a local bare repository, e.g. /foo/bar.git
  • Submodule: initializing of single submodule did not honor relative URLs
  • Commit, Select from Log: when having selected the virtual commit "merging not yet committed", a misleading error message was shown

New in SmartGit 1.5.2 (May 21, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • Log: straighter layout of branch starts
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Conflict Solver: temp files were tried to create with colons in the name
  • Directory tree popup menu did not match the selected directory when right-clicking a previously unselected directory
  • Refresh:
  • internal error when having different file name case in index and working tree
  • certain modifications were not detected if timestamps were near the index' timestamp ("racily clean" files were not detected)
  • internal error related to project state calculation
  • Edit|Customize: did not apply changes immediately after clicking OK
  • Submodules: empty submodules (initialized, but not yet pulled) were not displayed
  • SmartGit-SSH: fails (at least on Windows) if the temp directory path contains spaces; an according warning message is now shown with the msysgit bug causing this problem
  • Remove: if invoked on a directory and nothing was found, no information dialog was shown
  • Relative Directory table column: incorrect working tree was displayed for files in a multi-working-tree project if the (project) root node had been selected
  • generic bundle: contained .png files with incorrect name

New in SmartGit 1.5.1 (Apr 22, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • Clone: a not-yet-existing target directory will be tried to create automatically
  • Log, Branch Chooser dialog:
  • is now sorted by type
  • added speed-search (search as you type)
  • Checkout command (and others): output progress is shown in progress bar
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • memory leaks
  • used new JIDE docking library to fix an internal error
  • compare preview: fixed internal error when clicking on the change stripe
  • Log:
  • fixed performance problem for large repositories
  • internal error for corrupt/missing commit objects
  • Refresh: internal error related to project state calculation
  • Refresh (and other commands):
  • possible UI freeze for large projects and many changes
  • improved performance in case of many changes
  • Refresh (Windows/OS X): avoiding redundant full refresh after initial scanning
  • Stage Lines: failed with error about HEAD not available for added files
  • Windows look and feel, tree: for multiple selected nodes repaint did not work correctly

New in SmartGit 1.5 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs - internal error setting the working tree text file encoding to system encoding.

New in SmartGit 1.5 RC3 (Apr 1, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • Rebase: added third wizard page to configure further rebase options, e.g. how branches should be handled (moved or kept)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log:
  • containing branches on the Details tab were not displayed when log is extended
  • no File has been shown if only files in the root directory had been changed by the selected commit
  • Refresh (OS X, Unix): fixed performance problem for working trees located at a symlink or containing symlinks
  • Refresh: when resuming after a command invocation, phantom changes were reported
  • Cherry Pick dialog:
  • multi-threading related internal error
  • sometimes all revisions were marked as available
  • Rebase:
  • showed warning about losing commits even when they actually would not be lost
  • under certain conditions on Source page the Branch option could not be selected

New in SmartGit 1.5 RC2 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • built-in Compare, Editor, Conflict Solver: UTF-8 encoded text files with BOM are detected automatically (like UTF-16 files with BOM before)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh: fixed possible internal error when changing submodules while refresh is processing
  • Remove Working Tree: fixed possible internal error when invoked during a refresh
  • Git-SVN integration:
  • pushing hang under certain conditions
  • status bar did not show the ahead/behind commit numbers
  • Other Important Changes:
  • Commit messages are now stored using UTF-8 to avoid git warnings. To use the previous behaviour, set the Java VM property "commit.message.useSystemEncoding" to "true".

New in SmartGit 1.5 RC (Mar 27, 2010)

  • Improved:
  • Log: SVN revision columns is now only present for git-svn repositories
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Switch, Push dialog: active branch was not shown any more
  • Push dialog: internal error after showing warning
  • Refresh: internal error for a file with name '\'
  • Refresh (OS X, Linux):
  • possible internal error if symlink resolution failed
  • unversioned directory-symlink or broken symlink were not displayed
  • fixed performance bottleneck on 64-bit OS
  • Commit/Stage: did not work for broken symlinks
  • Delete: empty error message when trying to delete locked file
  • Output: execution of commands is reported as error, although there have been just warnings

New in SmartGit 1.5 Beta 4 (Mar 23, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Commit dialog, Select from Log: always added trailing line separator
  • Log (and others): internal error for invalid author/committer information
  • Log: internal error in case of corrupt commits
  • Check Out: internal error when invoking the branch selector on a repository which is not at a branch
  • Check Out (and others): internal error when invoking on a merging repository
  • Check Out (and others): internal error when pressing OK button without having a (valid) commit selected
  • Add Submodule: internal error when trying to add submodule to repository which itself has no origin
  • Switch dialog: OK button was enabled even during initial loading

New in SmartGit 1.5 Beta 3 (Mar 17, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • project with multiple working trees: ability to arrange the working trees with drag and drop
  • Improved:
  • Log (and dialogs showing the commit history): reworked the branch selector
  • Log: reduced UI noise after opening a graph showing all branches
  • improved dialog texts, incoming and outgoing changes arrows
  • Push: allows to push tags
  • project file list: display different conflict types
  • project directory structure, working tree roots:
  • while rebasing show a blue exclamation mark
  • don't show full paths any more, but only short ones (the full path is displayed in the tooltip)
  • tray icon popup: now uses a better font
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log: certain dialogs were displayed on project window (instead of the Log window)
  • Windows: the binary quick compare before opening a compare tool did not detect files differing only in line separators
  • Log, Compare with Working Tree: save did not trigger refresh in project window
  • Rebase: asked for branch selection on target page although irrelevant
  • Refresh:
  • fixed possible dead-lock
  • certain kinds of staged files were not detected
  • Add Submodule: did not trigger refresh of added submodule
  • Push: fixed possible internal error
  • Undo Commit: if invoked for the first commit in the repository, the error message was misleading
  • certain commands must not be available on nested modules
  • Compare Preview: did not refresh if the file was modified

New in SmartGit 1.5 Beta 2 (Mar 12, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Branch Manager: configure and reset tracking
  • status bar: the selected file or directory count is shown
  • Improved:
  • improved refresh performance (e.g. refresh after saving in built-in File Compare)
  • git-svn integration: now also remembers path for SVN client certificates
  • directory structure: the working tree root now shows the name or relative path to a common root (in case of multiple working trees) to make the current branch better visible
  • Log: moved root (branch) combobox to graph header to save screen space
  • Log: indicate HEAD
  • Log: optional table column showing the SVN revision (git-svn)
  • Revert on a modified submodule: optionally resets to registered commit
  • Pull: option to initialize submodules
  • Conflict Solver: shows file name in title
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • when cloning and a new project window opens, the progress was shown in the wrong window
  • Conflict Solver: now prevents to be opened on binary files
  • different commands: internal error if invoked for an empty repository
  • Revert to Head on ignored files resulted in staged changes
  • Refresh: internal errors, e.g. for invalid submodule
  • Push: now also allows to push, if "behind" tracking branch (using force)
  • Pull/Sync: submodule update did not consider SSH settings
  • Log: incorrect commits were displayed if invoked on a file during a merge
  • Compare preview: was not correctly refreshed after having changed the font size

New in SmartGit 1.0.4 (Mar 9, 2010)

  • Save Stash: did not work if a minus was used as stash message (Git tried
  • to interpret it as command line option)
  • built-in File Compare, Conflict Solver or Editor: changing the same line
  • after a save which was changed immediately before the save did not mark
  • the document as changed
  • Ignore: internal error when using / or ! within the pattern

New in SmartGit 1.5 Beta 1 (Mar 4, 2010)

  • New Features:
  • Remote|Sync: to perform a push and pull
  • basic git-svn integration
  • Local|Stage Lines: opens a 3-pane-compare (Head, Index, Working tree) to individually modify them
  • quick stash using the popup menu in the tray
  • Commit and Revert dialog: double click to open a file compare
  • Local|Reset: to reset to an earlier commit and then be able to squash-merge intermediate commits
  • OS X: on window activation changes to the project structure will be automatically refreshed
  • Project|Edit Working Tree:
  • ability to change the working tree path
  • configure text file encoding used for built-in file compare, conflict solver, editor
  • ability to define default sync and pull operations (rebase vs. merge)
  • Log: refresh
  • OS X, Help menu: ability to open the quick start pdf
  • Improved:
  • submodule support (Remote|Submodule)
  • built-in File Compare, Conflict Solver, Editor: ability to use non-fixed fonts allowing far-east characters to be displayed correctly
  • Pull: option to use Rebase (Project|Edit Working Tree)
  • Pull (Fetch): a warning is shown if no merging is possible because of no tracking branch
  • Switch, create local branch: option to configure tracking
  • Pull and Switch dialog: information about number of commits ahead or behind tracking branch is shown
  • Rebase: option to rebase onto tracking branch
  • Clone: remembers last cloned URL
  • Clone (OS X): if the target directory only contains a .DS_Store file, it will be deleted before cloning, so the clone will be performed in this directory, not a subdirectory
  • Rebase: warning is shown to prevent loosing commits accidently
  • Local|Save Stash: new option to add untracked files detection of bare repositories
  • Log: refresh
  • Log: remembers whether all branches were shown
  • Log: when in merging state for a file, show virtual merge sources branch
  • option to prevent tray icon
  • option to always open project in current or new window
  • for files, file size and last modified time are displayed

New in SmartGit 1.0.3 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh/Log: internal error in case of missing objects in .git/objects database
  • Refresh (OS X, Linux): symlinks were sometimes reported as modified
  • Commit: if a file is marked for removal, but locally existing (untracked), commit re-added it
  • OS X: the text of radiobutton or checkbox menu items overlapped the icon (fixed by updating the Quaqua library to version 6.4)
  • Further Information:
  • When scheduling a file for removal, the default for the option "Delete local files" has been changed from unselected to selected, because Git only allows to commit an untracked file which is scheduled for removal in the index by committing the index, not by committing the file explicitly

New in SmartGit 1.0.2 (Jan 9, 2010)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Stage: was not available on certain conflict states
  • Refresh and other commands: internal error for incomplete [remote-] entries in .git/config
  • Refresh: internal error when switching back to SmartGit window
  • Log: fixed an internal error
  • Conflict Solver: not all toolbar buttons had a describing text

New in SmartGit 1.0.1 (Dec 17, 2009)

  • Improvements:
  • Built-in SSH client: if ~/.ssh/id_rsa or id_dsa exist, the private key file input field is prefilled.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Refresh: internal error if a .gitignore file with a !-line has been found.
  • Refresh: internal error for "obstructed" files/directories.
  • Refresh (Windows): fixed problems with files where parent directories only differed in file name case.
  • Refresh (after command execution): for certain situations too less files/directories were refreshed.
  • Refresh (OS X, various commands): internal error for directories containing umlauts.
  • Commit and other commands: used slightly other command line than 'git help ' described.
  • Built-in File compare: if whitespaces were shown, the end-of-line character occurred also immediately after the selection.
  • OS X, Find input field: the clear-button remained disabled after it had been hidden one time.
  • OS X, File table: for files containing umlauts in the path, the displayed value in the column "Relative Directory" was empty.
  • OS X: if files contained, e.g., umlauts, the output showed cryptic characters.
  • Directory tree: large white gap above the tree after toggling a View-option which hides some directories.
  • All dialogs with instructions on top were too high if SmartGit has been launched on Java 7 preview.

New in SmartGit 1.0 (Dec 1, 2009)

  • No changes since RC 3.

New in SmartGit 1.0 RC3 (Dec 1, 2009)

  • Improvements:
  • Quick Start Guide (PDF).
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • File Table: after double-clicking a staged and modified file all menu item are disabled.
  • Refresh: core.excludesfile was not regarded.
  • Refresh: in case of missing .git-directory, error dialog was displayed twice.
  • Refresh (OS X): files with non-ASCII file names were displayed as unversioned/missing file pair.
  • Revert: failed for an added, modified file.
  • Unstage: failed if there is no commit yet.
  • Welcome Dialog: opening already open project flickered and did nothing.
  • Various commands (OS X): did not work when invoked on files with non-ASCII characters in the name (but worked on command line Git).

New in SmartGit 1.0 RC2 (Nov 27, 2009)

  • Improvements:
  • Switch: toolbar button.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Cherry Pick: in case of failure, picking multiple commits has not been aborted and commit message has been modified.
  • Directory Tree: unchanged directories were not displayed if View|Unchanged Files is de-selected.
  • File chooser: if opened a second time, the previous file filter was still displayed.
  • Ignore: ignoring a file failed if the .gitignore file is hidden (Windows).
  • Log/Show Changes/other queries: didn't work on non-ASCII files.
  • Log: internal error when clicking onto node which has not yet loaded parents.
  • Refresh: glob directory patterns (dir/) in .gitignore were not regarded.
  • Refresh: local modifications (red arrows) were not displayed in directory tree for modified submodules.

New in SmartGit 1.0 RC (Nov 20, 2009)

  • Improvements:
  • Apply Stash: remember selected options and by default suggest to drop the stash ('git stash pop' is safe)
  • Minor UI improvements.

New in SmartGit 1.0 M7 Build 2 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • Improvements:
  • Clone: suggest last project path plus git repository's last name component for local path default
  • Setup wizard: links to download (platform specific Git client)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Log, preview: selecting a submodules did not display submodule content
  • Log: not available for submodules
  • Internal SSH client: did not work if no user (user@) has been provided
  • Refresh: closing project did not stop background refresh
  • Refresh: phantom changes were reported when e.g. merging/pulling many changes during background refresh
  • Refresh: possible UI freezes for a long time on frame activation

New in SmartGit 1.0 M7 Build 1 (Nov 18, 2009)

  • Improvements:
  • Checkout/Switch: if an entered local branch already exists, SmartGit asks to overwrite it
  • Log: removed flicker of file list and compare preview when log entries were reloaded
  • Log: for merge commits, don't display files which haven't been actually merged
  • Merge: allows to merge from arbitrary branches or commits
  • Preferences: page "View Default" has been removed and replaced with an option "Make default" in the View|Settings dialogs (e.g. file compare)
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Clone: failed for Git 1.6.0.x because -v is not supported
  • File compare (and others): end-of-line character was drawn in the line number gutter
  • Log: if the message "no commits found" has been shown, all menu items and toolbar buttons remained disabled
  • Log, Details tool window: "click to load" was shown for initially selected commit
  • Log: incorrect color was used for arrows
  • Log: hand cursor was shown permanently after hovering over the graph structure
  • Fetch: did not use SmartGit SSH client for submodules
  • Rebase: internal error when selecting the initial commit
  • Refresh: core.autocrlf config option was not honored (resulting in displaying unchanged files as modified)
  • Refresh: reported files below a symlink as added
  • Refresh: file name case changes were not handled properly on Windows and OS X
  • Switch: local branch was created even if it shouldn't
  • Tag Browser: possible internal error
  • Various commands: "outside repository" error occurred when repository was located on symlink

New in SmartGit 1.0 M6 Build 3 (Nov 9, 2009)

  • Fixed Bugs:
  • on OS X 10.5 crashed when using Java 1.5
  • Search-Replace dialog: internal error when pressing Replace without having entered something