Compare Before and Compare After depends on what compare you want to trigger - think about some reverted code or a commit from a different branch.

So I understand that you don't care about being able to edit the local path.

Currently, this opens a dialog where you can select the file to compare with (the file might have been moved or renamed in the mean-time). Should we really open this dialog for each selected file?

We've added a tiny blue information icon in the top right corner of the commit dialog. Please move the mouse over it.

You may try following in SmartGit:

• show files recursively
• remove all tracked files but keep them physically available
• commit them
• add all "untracked" files
• amend-commit them

Now the latest commit should only contain files that were considered ignored. Alternatively, you may create a tiny script that invokes your above mentioned commands and add that to the Tools section in the preferences.

You already can share tools.xml.

Feel free to give it a try at SmartGit 18.1 preview.

Here comes a first glimpse of the new coloring mode. We plan to release a preview build the next week.

Ctrl+click is a bad choice because it is used in a tree-control like the Branches view to toggle selection. I know that in some text editors it is used to open links, but a text editor is something different than a tree control.

Please try the context menu of the "Commits" view, not the "Files" view.