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SmartGit 21.1 #17063 will have this option in Preferences, Built-in Text Editors, Behavior.
SmartGit 21.1 #17062 should offer keyboard support for these actions. You can find them as "Apply [Innerline Change|Line] to Right/Left" in the keyboard settings. Applying the whole block is named "Take Left/Right" (from the Compare).
SmartGit 21.1 #17063 will remember the last selection.
Have you tried to select the parent directory in SmartGit and ignore that?
Already available in 21.1 preview from https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/preview/
> I honestly don't understand why this would work any different than how
> it would work in Smart SVN, which if recall allowed the in place edit.
No, it never did.
The Unified Diff option is available since 21.1 preview 1.
Please use SmartGit 20.2 build 16142+ (Help | Check for Latest Build). The old code could not manage the UTF-8 BOM, but the new code should be able to.
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Thanks, this will be implemented in 21.1 preview build 17064. You will have to set the low-level property ignore.supportTrackedDir to true.