This would be enormously helpful to me, and to many other remote workers. The central office has the powerful server, but I'm quite a few milliseconds of latency away. I've tried file sharing, but it's super-duper-doggy-slow. Having (most of) the processing done on the remote machine would really speed things up.

You use the color red all over the place to indicate that "There've been changes" (e.g. in the "Staged" indicator, in the "Modified" indicator, and in the whole file list when there are changed files but they've all been hidden by the various display flags). That's a nice consistency which I wouldn't want to lose.

How about this, with a slightly stronger circle around the "Changes Staged" indicator?

I like that the current system uses the same color for all of the "Something Changed" indicators; I wouldn't want to change that. I also happen to like the gentle red. (But, I'm no visual designer, and as you say it's all subjective...)

Adding a stronger outline to the "Staged" circle, or pulling the "Staged" circle a couple of pixels to the right, would really help.

Understood. I prefer the new behavior, so I won't revert. (Thanks.)