There is an option in Gitlab to enable Delete source branch by default for newly created merge requests.

But it gets enabled for merge requests created only in a browser.

If I create Merge request in SmartGit I always get this option disabled.

It would be great if the default setting was used when creating merge request in SmartGit and also an option to enable or disable it in Merge Merge request window.

A classic problem in large repositories is when someone reformats the code, touching most lines in every file. This makes git blame a lot less useful, as all roads lead to Rome (the revision where the reformatting was done).

git blame, however, can ignore a list of revisions:

> git blame --ignore-revs-file .git-blame-ignore-revs

Adding this to SmartGit's Blame and Investigate views would be very handy.

Currently, we can't change the author of a merge-commit, but it is possible via `git commit --amend --author=xxx`

The older topic only works for commits having the same message.

I quite often need to squash 2 commits that are not consecutive and which have different messages. But, currently, only the rebase option is presented.

This could work for consecutive commits too, as a shorthand for the right click > squash option.

My regular multi-repo need is branch manipulation across many repos - checkout, add, delete, and rename.  Currently, I use an IDE or create scripts to do so for products' source I'm working on.  I think the best multi-repo-git-client, SmartGit, should have these features so users can stay using it instead of switching tools.

I keep looking for an option to search across multiple files in a given commit. I know you can text search in the ‘Show Changes’ and ‘Log’ windows, but that is for a single file. If the Graph window has focus and you press <ctrl-f> the ‘Filter’ box gets focus. If you the same for the files window, the ‘File Filter’ box gets focus. If I try the same in the ‘Changes of xxx’ window, nothing happens. I’d like to click on a given commit, and have an option to text search all files in that commit for a specific string.

I’ve seen a couple of similar requests in this forum from the past, but they seem to have never gone anywhere. This feature would save me quite a bit of time.

Thanks!!

This will look just like how GitHub shows diffs

Example: https://github.com/git/git/commit/45ee13b942b26925b33d827bda2856e1ed0af0b7

When the viewer or editor highlights parts of code that match the token that is currently at the editing cursor or the current selection is a super useful productivity aid and I miss it a lot in SmartGit.

So called "match margin" would be cool to have as well.

You can see how it work in a lot of editors, e.g. godbolt.org: move the editing cursor to a token or select text, notice how matches are highlighted and the locations of matches are indicated on the vertical scroll bar (the "match margin").

Would be extremely useful while looking at changes and blaming/investigating to quickly locate where in code things are used.

I have many repositories, organized into groups. For example Project A will consists of four or five different repositories. When I do  a hotfix, I do it to all of the repositories used by that project, so they all have a 1.70.10 tag that I can build from, even if only one of the repositories changes. 

So, it would be nice to perform operations like "finish hotfix" on multiple repositories (perhaps all in a Group) all at the same time, and have them all working on the git flow operations simultaneously. Right now I do them one at a time and it can be tedious. I have external scripts to accomplish this but it would be nice to be able to do it right from Smartgit.

Git 2.23 added a new "git switch" command for switching branches: https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/#experimental-alternatives-for-git-checkout. This new name is much clearer in explaining what it does than "checkout" ever was.

I use "git switch" at the command line so often now, that when I come to SmartGit I have to spend several seconds scanning the branch context menu for the "Switch" command before I remember it's still called "Check Out".

SmartGit should adopt this new git terminology and use it in the SmartGit UI, as it's a clearer verb for what the command will do, and it matches the future of the git CLI.