Right, with fixed truncation, this won't work. Overall, this sounds like a more elaborate and configurable post-processing of Git Notes content to determine what should be displayed.

> Additionally, it's annoying that the branches line is, for some reason, pushed to the bottom.

This depends on how important you consider the Notes information. The notes that SmartGit creates are usually something you trigger manually, and you don't want them buried behind a long list of branch details that are always computed. So it's reasonable to show them before.

A possible quick workaround we could implement for 26.1 is a Low-Level Property that truncates notes at N characters. Would that be acceptable for you?

Speaking as an individual, not officially on behalf of Syntevo:

Just my 2 cents: for the last couple of months, I have been delegating this kind of branch-splitting work to coding agents, and they perform reasonably well -- roughly at human level for these tasks. I am using GPT-5.4 high or xHigh for this.

So Check for New Version didn't give you 25.1.029? Then please try Help|Check for Latest Build.

Please try version 25.1.029 using Help|Check for New Version (or Help|Check for Latest Build), where this issue should already be resolved.

SmartGit 26.1.011 Preview now supports SHA-256: https://www.smartgit.dev/download/preview/

SmartGit 26.1.011 Preview now supports reftables: https://www.smartgit.dev/download/preview/

SmartGit 26.1 Preview comes with a couple of worktree-related improvements already, which we have found useful in combination with AI agents: https://www.smartgit.dev/download/preview/

With version 25.1, there are now explicit remote entries in All Branches + Tags. For example, you can filter "remotes" to see only the remote entries.

If you are accustomed to tree controls, the list + filter approach is different and will take some time to get used to.