In this simple example this might work, but for others it might fail. I line or a commit does NOT belong to a branch in Git. A Git branch is nothing else than a named pointer to a certain commit.

Imagine you move the mouse over the blue line of the 3rd row from the bottom. It belongs to branch (origin/)v4.93.xx and (origin/)creatique_1132.

Please see your thread in the mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/smartgit/NQIrvPVJFFw

This requires a Git server configuration. Nothing that can and should be done by a Git client.

For me the left side is very hard to read.

Yes, the line

graph.merge.text=#808080

should cause the effect.

You may change the colors according to your needs in the preferences.

Where you would expect to see this feature - in the Log (having stash files selected) or should the Apply Stash command should list all files for the index, working copy and untracked files)?

It is using the interactive rebase in 17.1 preview.

UTF-8 can be detected automatically, even without BOM. Could you please sketch how the encoding is configured in Eclipse, especially for all team-mates?

There only is whitespace below the last item in this tree control. If the repository has grown out of the starting state, there usually is no such whitespace.