You can initialize them and then mark them as ignored.

We use the system specific hover-event that usually is used to show a tooltip.

Please give the latest 18.1 preview a try with Ctrl+F1 and Ctrl+Shift+F1 shortcuts.

In the preferences, page "Commands", "Commit" section select the checkbox "Preselect 'Staged' if files are staged, even if a file without staged changes is selected".

What of

I'll let you know once there is something to test.

was misunderstanding? Could you imagine that we are working on other things already?

How do you think horizontal scrolling synchronizing should be properly implemented? Please note that
- multiple lines are shown and
- each line pair can have different lengths.

Just curious: how you would do that without SmartGit?

Already done in 18.1 preview 1.

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.