Woops sorry : I answered after using the option directly without selecting anything...

So now I see, after enabling ignored files display and selecting one of them that I get the .gitignore file and its corresponding directive ! Just missing the directive line then...

I don't think so ?

Here's an example of the git check-ignore command :

$ git check-ignore -v .
www/itop/.gitignore:12:/conf    .

Indeed I add a root .gitignore, and made a specific subdirectory indexed (!/www/...)... but this rule had no effect. With the check-ignore command I was abel to see the directory was ignored because of another .gitignore in the tree that I totally forgot about.

I already have this with Smartgit 17.1 RC4 running on Windows 7... What is your version and OS ?

Same need for me, in a different context : I use git-svn, and so gitflow is disabled. But I still create manually feature and hotfix branches from trunk ! Each time a new branch is created I would like to have trunk as the auxiliary branch displayed in the journal view...

Thanks ! I need to test interactive rebase further on, for now my past attempts gave me an error message... I'll try more next week !

This is kind of solution chose in SourceTree indeed : you have 3 different tab on the main window, "file status" (allowing to stage and commit), "log", "search".

Perspectives in SmartGit (with a new "open in new window" option as you pointed out) are indeed certainly a good way to have a very flexible interface, that could fit everyone taste !

I've just picked this version but don't see this new compact view in the diff view ? Can't find any option in the GUI, is there something to add to smartgit.properties ?

Useless in your use case doesn't mean no-one would use it :)

I do it a lot, and having to select each commit to see the branches it belongs to in its details is a pain...

That would be a good workaround !

Very nice option !! Can a button be added just aside the view type drop down ? So when you select branch or merge coloring it would be available and really visible ?

Currently, in the commit details view there is a "on branches" info. This could simply be displayed as a tooltip when overring the commit bullet in the commits view...