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.