When I review changes that I'm about to commit I often find that I made a typo. I would like to make some adjustments in SmartGit right away to avoid navigating to the file in my IDE.

Can SmartGit support git-subrepo ? https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo

It permits to "embed" git repositories within one as normal files (and not like submodules), so it permits to clone the complete repository like normal and without even needing needing to know about it, branch at will without issues, and yet permits to push and pull changes to these subdirectories from their upstream git repositories. It also does not have the drawbacks of git-subtree.

This command is an improvement from git-submodule and git-subtree; two other git commands with similar goals, but various problems.

It assumes there are 3 main roles of people interacting with a repo, and attempts to serve them all well:

• owner - The person who authors/owns/maintains a repo.
• users - People who are just using/installing the repo.
• collaborators - People who commit code to the repo and subrepos.

The git-subrepo command benefits these roles in the following ways:

• Simple and intuitive commandline usage.
• Users get your repo and all your subrepos just by cloning your repo.
• Users do not need to install git-subrepo, ever.
• Collaborators do not need to install unless they want to push/pull.
• Collaborators know when a subdir is a subrepo (it has a .gitrepo file).
• Well named branches and remotes are generated for manual operations.
• Owners do not deal with the complications of keeping submodules in sync.
• Subrepo repositories can contain subrepos themselves.
• Branching with subrepos JustWorks™.
• Different branches can have different subrepos in different states, etc.
• Moving/renaming/deleting a subrepo subdir JustWorks™.
• You can init an existing subdirectory into a subrepo.
• Your git history is kept squeaky clean.
• Upstream history (clone/pull) is condensed into a single commit.
• You can see the subrepo history with git log subrepo/<subdir>/fetch.
• Commits pushed back upstream are not condensed.
• Trivial to try any subrepo operations and then reset back.
• No configuration required.
• Does not introduce history that messes up other git commands.
• Fixes known rebase failures with git-subtree.

I find it very helpful to document the intention of my branches. As far as I can tell the natural way to do this is via the command line option --edit-description. I would like this to be exposed in SmartGit, so I don't have to fuss about by doing this indirectly.

Often our commit messages refer to other commits, like:

"This commit fixes an issue introduced in commit 1d441145, which ..."

or

"59c5792d50c49f77ca9f044fa03c108c5f515de8 introduced a bug which caused ..."

Currently I have to manually copy the commit ID, then (opening a new log window first if desired) paste it into the log window search box.

What I'd like is a way for those commit IDs to be automatically highlighted, and when you right-click on them you get the option to reveal the commit in the current log or reveal it in a new log window.

To my knowledge, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this via the Bugtraq integration.

Currently, it is not possible to search in the Changes view without opening a full file compare window.

Groups are a good way to organize git repos, but what about organizing groups in groups ? It would add a useful tree view for organizing projects...

I'm tired of opening SmartGit and waiting for it to upgrade itself, or even see the toaster message notifying me of a new build. Just do the upgrade completely seamlessly, like Chrome, without me even knowing SmartGit gets upgraded.

Having .gitignore files throughout a project's folders can make it difficult to manage the ignore rules for a particular project. It would be helpful when ignoring a file to be shown a dialogue which asks the user which .gitignore file to use - current folder (i.e. the folder containing the files to ignore) or repository root (the .gitignore in the root of the repository). An additional "nice to have" would be to be able to specify the default using a checkbox on the dialogue (as is done with the "Reset" dialogue in the log view.

Generating an SSH key pair is still only possible in a console (command "ssh-keygen").

It would be great if SmartGit's SSH client would provide a small tool to generate a new key pair. This could be located in Preferences -> Authentication -> button "Create SSH key pair" or something like that.

When commit is selected if the parent commit is not the commit directly below, could it be indicated some how? Dot outline a different colour? Dot fill a different colour? Track Line Colour? I don't mind which. If the commit has multiple parents, then maybe highlight all parents, even if one of the parents is directly below, since that could cause confusion. (I say all parents, rather than both parents, since I have a few octopus merges). It's hard to track all of the lines some times. I know there is Alt+Down to jump to parent, but I sometimes don't want to jump to the commit, I just want to visualise them.