When working on a new feature or fix my expected work flow is to pull the base branch (master, develop, etc.) then create a new feature or hotfix branch, make the changes and commit them to the new branch.  Then a peer review or pull request is made for other developers to review the changes before they get merged back into the base branch.  However sometimes when working on some new code I forget to create the new branch. When I finish the change and commit it, it gets committed back to the base branch directly.  This is bad since is skips the peer review step.

It would be very nice if I could configure SmartGit to warn me if I am attempting to commit a change to a base branch (in my case that would be the master or develop branches).  That warning would remind me that I forgot to create a new branch before doing the commit, and would help be to avoid occasionally forgetting to create the new branch, and mistakenly committing changes directly to the base branch.

Situation:

- I would like to review  only 11 files (a set).

- When I select them and click to compare, it opens a new window for every file.

- It also ask me "do you really want to open >10 windows?".

Request:

- Please allow me to use the size of my monitor (full-screen mode would be nice as well) and to compare many files in the same time (each file is in a new tab?).

- Please also display the repository name.

- Please allow me to see the relative to the root path, instead of filename.ext. (a new settings option?)

Since "Main" and "Review" buttons are mutually exclusive, consolidate them into one toggle button.  This will save one space for another button, for us who uses screens with smaller resolution.

I have copied my files from windows to ubuntu and all the files which are already committed & pushed into the repo showing modified.

Is there any options to get Email notifications on pull and push option click

Currently changes are highlighted in green background which is harder to see if you have green text around your changes. Instead, code changes should have e.g. light red highlight (similar to what Beyond Compare diffing tool does).

Scenario:

File on the left has code that was removed from the file on the right when comparing different versions of the same file.

As in Beyond Compare diffing tool, show matching but blank line(s) on the right. That way both sides will be shown with matching lines on the same eye level. This is especially important if larger chunks of code were removed on one side. The current functionality will show just a narrow line on the right side.

This could be an option to toggle in settings.

When you clone a new repo and pick a project from Github, the Github Projects window should display a progress indicator while loading the list of projects. Currently it just displays an empty list for a couple of seconds, which gives the impression that there are no projects available.

The .gitsvnextmodules that refer to regular Git repositories are being checked out as SVN, instead of regular Git submodules.

If this Git repository resides on GitHub SmartGit does not support it. (svn: E204900: Can't clone an SVN repository from GitHub. GitHub uses a non-standard SVN server and hence those repositories can't be cloned with SmartGit.)

Also there is no option to add a remote Git submodule via the GUI and the option for a local Git or Mercurial repository is greyed out.

However, adding a remote Git submodule to a SVN-Git bridge checkout via command line works and SmartGit picks it up OK.