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I've been subscribed to SmartGit for MANY years, but am starting to transition away to (inferior) VSCode Git support specifically because of this feature.  As time goes on and VSCode gets a better UI, it's very likely I'll end up canceling my subscription.

This feature is very important for anybody who wants to develop on: a headless/remote networked build server, the cloud, inside a Docker container (especially on Windows), etc...  This is only going to become more common over time.  In my case, I'm a systems engineer who cross-compiles ARM Linux distributions on a dedicated build machine which requires a very specific OS setup (e.g. specific Linux version) that I can't really install a full userland on.

What's needed is some way to efficiently work on Git repositories directly inside a remote machine over SSH.  How that works mechanically, maybe there's a way that doesn't require a complete rewrite?