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Add panel exposing the CLI (bash/cmd)
Add a panel that will be exposing the OS CLI opened in the project's folder.
Better support when using SmartGit for Git and Mercurial at the same time
I use SmartGit for both Git and Mercurial, which is great: I have just one tool learn, and the same tool on Windows and on Mac. But, the commands and preferences for the two VCS are inconsistently implemented. For example:
The preference "Stash: Automatically save stash if Pull, Checkout, or Interactive Rebase fails because of local changes" works for Git but not Mercurial. Similarly, the Apply patch menu item uses the git apply command rather than the Mercurial import command even when pointing to a Mercurial repository.
SmartGit should be smart enough to know what sort of repository it is executing against and use the appropriate command, or tell us when that command hasn't been implemented.
Also, perhaps there needs to be separate preference tabs for Git- and Mercurial-specific preferences as there are some siginificant differences.
Mercurial: support for creating and importing patches
SmartGit allows you to create and apply a patches for Git, but not for Mercurial. Atlassian's SourceTree and the tool within Intellij IDEA have a context menu against log entries to create a patch from single or multiple commits.
Log: custom tools should work on Files (as in the main window)
Tools configured in the Preferences should work on the Log's File view in a similar way as in the main window
Totals in Files Window
It could come useful to have totals for commit in Files view.
I.e. counts: total, renamed, changed, removed, added.
Changes view: Remember "Ignore Whitespace"
Please bring back the persistent "Ignore Whitespace" toggle. Since some build of 24.1, the "Ignore Whitespace" option resets every time I switch files, and I have to re-choose it constantly.
I spend a lot of time just viewing my working tree changes, and staging/unstaging hunks. Viewing significant code changes without the noise of whitespace deltas is important.
Therefore, I really want my viewing preference to persist. The new "Ignore WS" button is a welcome improvement, having it's state visible, and togglable with one click. (I would similarly welcome a "Ignore EOL" button 🙂). But constantly having to re-instate my preference, even just switching to another file then back, is tiresome.
Create/close feature branches on multiple, selected repositories
We use SmartGit for interacting with many (>100) repos for any given project.
It would be very useful to be able to create branches (e.g. a feature branch) with the same name across multiple repositories, e.g. If I am working on a ticket, THING-1234 and it affects multiple repositories it would be great if we could select a subset (or all) of the repositories in the group (or a folder containing repositories) and create the same branch across all of them (e.g. feature/THING-1234).
Similarly it would be very helpful to finish features or releases for a selection of repos, without needing to do it one at a time.
As an added bonus it would be really helpful if SmartGit could perform this action on multiple repos in parallel, rather than sequentially.
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