There is a very useful tool "Merge directly to" present in SmartGit for years. I used to use it in some older versions, but then at some point it stopped working. I find it very convenient, since it allows me to preserve timestamps of my files on merge and thus avoid recompilation of the code (I work with C++ code base). Please recover the tool.

It would be great to have an option to open reviewed file in selected text editor.

For example I find some typo like missing space:

I would like to open file in my text editor (in my case VS2019) on highlighted line.

Just for reference I'm attaching code for opening VS on selected line. It would mean support also VS Code and other major text editors (maybe some configuration and external commands?)

openedit.cpp

Since version 19.1 the way of the ahead/behind commit counting has been changed (it counts both current branch and merge branch commits). It makes us confuse about: how many commits had been reset on a branch or how many ahead commits of the current branch. So I think best would be to have an option/setting to switch back to pre-19.1 counting.

I recently discovered that you can nest groups in the Repositories view. This is an incredibly useful feature for us (as we work with over 100 repositories at a time).

I have a structure similar to the following:

ApplicationSuite (Group)
  + Apps (Group)
      + Repo One
      + Repo Two
  + Libraries (Group)
      + Repo Three
      + Repo Four
  + DataSets (Group)
      + Set One (Group)
          + Repo Five
          + Repo Six
      + Set Two (Group)
          + Repo Seven
          + Repo Eight
   + Repo Nine

The following enhancements (wishlist items) would make our lives even easier:

1. If you right-click on the parent group (e.g. ApplicationSuite) and choose "Open Repository", it should open all repositories in that group (Repo Nine) as well as all child groups (Apps, Libraries, etc) all the way down the tree. At the moment you need to expand all the groups you want to open the repositories for, select all the repos and the right click and choose "Open Repository"
2. Add the ability to see changed files in the current group as well as any sub groups. This would probably need to be an optional mode (controlled with (for example) a button next to the file filter text box) so that the current behaviour of only showing repos in the current group is still available. The behaviour and available options for the "expanded/recursive" mode would be the same as for a single selected group (being able to commit, stage, etc.).

Unlike ExamDiff there seems to be no possibility to mark files for comparison from the context menu of windows explorer. That would be a great extension.

Use case:

Select one file in windows explorer, use right click to open the context menu and then click on "Add to Comparison".

After that add another file to comparison using the context menu and select "Compare against xyz.ztx"

When doing support on a product, you're quite often confront to questions like "in which version does this fix/enhancement is integrated ?". When you got he sha, the "git tag --contains <sha>" command gives a good answer.

I added this as a new tool, but I think this could be useful to others, so maybe integrate this directly in Smartgit ?

When merging a pull request in GitHub, both the PR creator and the committer appears in the new commit ("By" = PR creator, and "committed by" = the one that merged the PR)

It happens that I need to commit something that was made by another developer, so I would love to be able to do exactly the same : set the "By" to the real author of the code, and my name only appearing as the committer.

Also, when working in pair, it would be nice to be able to add the other developer as author...

Would be perfect to be able to pick the name/email from the log (people that did already commit).

May the "Co-Authored-By" be useful for this ?

E.g. to have all commits from a specific user highlighted.