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Build 25.1.087 works great, thanks!

For 25.2, I would like to see similar enhancements in the "Branches" window:

  • A notes icon to the right of the tag name and description, if the tag has a git note, with a popup with the note content on mouse hovering over the icon.
  • In the context menu opened on an annotated tag: the same note operations as for commit. Currently it is "Add Note..." For normal (not annotated) tags this item it is absent or greyed out.

You may consider a different icon (or colour) for notes on tags than directly on commits, but I'd leave that to your UI designers.

Thanks for the reply, Marc. I guess I should have tested out 25.1 RC right away rather than 4 months later.

Displaying any kind of feedback for the presence of annotated tag notes would be already a great improvement, even if they look like the regular commit git notes.

The second order is displaying the content of the note. If you resolve annotated tags to commits, I assume the note content will simply show up in the Commit info window. What if there is also a regular commit note present? Will one note override the other, or will they will be concatenated? If the latter, with/without a separator? What about the case of multiple annotated tags with notes pointing to the same commit?

Does it also mean also that 25.2 will/may have more comprehensive support of annotated tag notes (e.g. Add/Edit note in the context menu of a tag)?

Marc, you are not done yet!

You forgot Git notes attached to annotated tags, rather than directly to commits; they are also in namespace ref/notes/commits. Currently SmartGit 25.1.086 RC doesn't even show an icon next to the tags indicating that the notes are there.

In our case we attach rather lengthy notes to annotated tags (which indicate alpha/beta/release versions) with all tool names and their versions used to build the particular release. They are not attached to commits to prevent them from clobbering the output of git log.