SmartGit 23.1 Preview 4 (2023-03-08)
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Fixed Bugs
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- Changes view: submodule comparison may continue to show error banner from previously selected file
- Git-Flow: Configure was incorrectly enabled
- Tag Grouping: was not applied if ~/.gitconfig contained [taggrouping] section without any key
- Theming, default theme: table did not reset yellowish background after filtering
- Log:
    - Commits view:
        - did not update after re-configuring Tag-Grouping
        - with tag-grouping configured, branch calculations (like "on", "closest tags") were not performed for standalone tags
    - possible deadlock when opening submodule
- Standard window:
    - Commit, file name completion: possible internal error
    - Repositories tab: fixed layout for small screen sizes
- WSLg:
    - on a fresh system (without ~/.config/) the settings were written to wrong location
    - installation update failed
    - restarting SmartGit after settings change did not work
    - windows did not show minimize/maximize buttons

Other Noteworthy Changes
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- Branches view: apply Tag-Grouping even if no "title:" has been configured for group-patterns
- Changes view: for non-binary files which are simply too large, "File content not loaded" instead of "File is considered as binary" is shown now
- Conflict Solver: better description for left/right side
- GitHub: display pull requests from non-existing users
- Graph:
    - tag and ref background is better noticable now (according to Twitter/Mastodon) poll
    - too long, truncated ref names show now tooltip with full name
- Standard window:
    - Repository tab context menu: added Close to the Right
- WSLg:
    - add-menuitem.sh and remove-menuitem.sh create icon on Windows host
    - license file and a few settings are copied from the Windows host system


SmartGit 23.1 Preview 3 (2023-02-23)
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New Features, Improvements
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- Commit: preferences option for ignore comment lines, use message literally, or ask the user
    - Rename Commit, Split-Off, Squash dialogs always use the message as provided
- Changes view, Submodule change: ability to open submodule log in compare mode
- Split-Off Files: optionally create the new commit before or after the original commit
- Log window:
    - Create Pull Request: optionally allow to open the web browser to create the pull request at GitHub
- Standard window:
    - Finish Feature:
        - optionally allow to open the web browser to create the pull request at GitHub
        - detect protected branches and in that case default to Create Pull Request
    - Graph: loads more commits when scrolling to the bottom

Fixed Bugs
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- Background commands:
    - for poll, disable partial clone logic
    - memory leak if Detect Local Changes was enabled
- Changes view, Resolve: possible error "Input length = ..." error for conflict files with specific encodings
- Move and Squash: could create # in commit message of the resulting commit though the original message did not contain #
- Refresh: possible problems with Git filter-invocations (low-level property core.git.invokeFilterDirectly)
- Syntax:
    - Clojure: symbols might contain some non-letter character
    - PHP: backslash in single-quoted strings was incorrectly parsed
    - TypeScript:
        - underscore in numbers was not allowed
        - "any", "number", "string" and "undefined" were not highlighted
- WSLg:
    - GUI was broken for 200% zoom level without configuring the low-level property ui.dpiFactor
- Standard window:
    - Feature commands: for multiple main branches wrong main branch was suggested
    - Configure Features:
        - accepted input which was rejected later
        - did not show remote-only branches
        - lost pattern-based configurations after reopening
        - switching back grom pattern to simple branch did not work
        - configuration was picked up delayed
    - Open (file): for some extensions wrong default tool was used (on Windows)
    - Mini-log: bold (pushable) commits were not identical in all cases with Graph
    - Rebase: false-positive warning about already pushed commits

Other Noteworthy Changes
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- Add or Create Repository:
    - if a path inside a repository is provided, open that repository
    - if a path inside a submodule is provided, ask whether to open the submodule or outer-most repository
- update bundled Git to 2.39.1 and Git-LFS 3.3.0
- theming:
    - make it easier to override only specific colors on top of an existing theme: https://docs.syntevo.com/SmartGit/Latest/Theme-Customization.html
    - improved default (light) theme on macOS (less gray)
- smartgit.properties: support UTF-8
- Syntax:
    - JSON: support // and /* ... */ as in TypeScript's tsconfig.json
- macOS: ignore events for disposed widgets causing assertions
- Log window:
    - Changes view: opening Submodule re-uses current window when selecting "Existing window"
    - Drop Local Data (for pull requests): works on multiple pull requests at once
- Standard window:
    - Commit: unset "Amend", if "Amend" was set automatically by clicking the HEAD commit in the mini-log, and the user edits the commit message
    - Files view:
        - if the space is not enough to display the full name or path, especially for renamed files, give the name more place
        - for renamed files, the renamed part is highlighted
        - show "empty commit" if no files are available
    - Finish Feature: more efficient GitHub query (Finish dialog comes up faster)
    - Integrate Feature: in dialog-less mode, show warning for diverged main branch
    - My History view: if a local branch is different from its remote branch, show the remote branch as separate line below the local branch; this simplified selecting the remote branch in the Graph
    - Refresh:
        - performance improvements (by using a .git/index cache like the Log window)
        - reduced memory consumption for repositories containing many files
    - Tools main menu: contains only tools that operate on the repository root;
      if the tool should operate on a specific directory or file, invoke the tool from the directory's or file's context menu


SmartGit 23.1 Preview 2 (2023-01-25)
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Fixed Bugs
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- Completion: selection is lost if the popup is open and the selection is modified
- Refresh: possible problems with Git filter-invocations (low-level property "core.git.invokeFilterDirectly")
- Windows might be possible to come to front if focus is changed while in background (regression)
- Standard window:
    - some menu items are enabled if no repository was opened
    - My History: even branches where shown packed

Other Noteworthy Changes
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- Standard window:
    - Apply Stash: should only switch to WT if there are local changes
    - Mini-Log: use log.useCommitMessage.prefix, except of when amending
    - Repositories tab:
        - allow to copy path of selected repository
        - Filter input field:
            - don't suggest Initialize for roots or parent dirs of known repositories
            - show Add suggestion even if repositories with this prefix are known, except if the found root is already known


SmartGit 23.1 Preview 1 (2023-01-20)
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New Features, Improvements
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- Azure DevOps: support OAuth authentication for multiple cloud accounts
- GitHub integration: switch OAuth to loopback-callback for improved convenience and security
- Syntax coloring:
    - support for Lua/Nelua
    - support for Odin
- Standard window:
    - allow to reorder tabs with drag and drop
    - Features: support for multiple "main branches", e.g. develop, release-v1, release-v1.1
    - My History: added option in Hamburger menu to show tags pointing to the displayed commits
    - My History, All Branches + Tags: selecting 2 refs selects them in the graph, too, for easier comparison

Fixed Bugs
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- Changes view:
    - did not update properly for Index-only changes
    - might show outdated diff after switching repositories
- Changes view, Compare, Conflict Solver, Index Editor:
    - possible problems with increased line heights caused by non-US-ASCII characters resulting in selection problems, Goto Next/Prev Change selecting wrong lines
    - Find did not find text inside selection
    - Syntax
        - Crystal: numbers can have suffixes like _i8
        - C#: hex literal may start with 0X (uppercase x)
- Conflict Solver: problem with conflict at end of file with/without line separate in last line
- Spell Checker: old (removed) language is still shown in context menu for typo
- SSH: possible problems with ! in GIT_SSH path on Windows
- GUI:
    - File completion: selection is lost if popup is open and the selection is modified (with Shift+Left)
    - Graph: tooltip for truncated messsage did not hide if mouse was moved
    - Output dialog: could get too large (high)
    - Table controls: multi-selection could break for refreshs
- Standard window:
    - Graph: main branch was not always layouted left-most
    - Refresh: possible "missing object" error when opening repository
    - Start Feature: must not reset diverged local main branch onto remote branch
    - Repositories tab: possible is-disposed error when renaming a repository

Other Noteworthy Changes
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- Clean Working Tree: reworked options to make more obvious what is done
- Delete Branch: cleans up Git-Flow branch information in Git config files
- Discard submodule: can operate on multiple selected submodules now
- History-related operations: are enabled for inapplicable commits, but show an information explaining why they are not available
- Refresh: files inaccessible due to file system permissions are denoted by a "inaccessible" state
- Squash: authorship defaults to oldest author with most recent date (low-level property "squash.authorshipDefault")
- Log window:
    - Branches, context menu: "Toggle" is only available where reasonable
    - Changes view: a different font is used (on Windows) so the comments are better readable (font can be configured with low-level property "changesView.comment.fontName")
    - Discard should not abort commands (it is too easy to confirm, e.g. while bisecting) by default (low-level property "discard.canAbort")
    - Graph: distinct popup menus for Pull Request and Stashes
    - while Bisecting: all commands that make no sense are disabled
- Standard window:
    - Checkout commit: will create a temporary branch
    - Commit: added low-level property "standard.selectIndexOnFocusCommitMessage" to always select Index when focusing commit message input field
    - Directories view: can delete untracked directories
    - Files views: can group by state
    - Repositories tab:
        - ability to Mark as Favorite (putting repositories at begin of group)
        - filter input field can filter by full path now
            - if repository at path is not known, it can be added/opened
            - if directory at path is no repository, it can be initialized
    - Features:
        - reads .gitflow file for the defaults
        - commands work for repositories without remote, too
        - Start Feature:
            - checks for diverged main branch earlier
            - update submodules
            - is also available in My History toolbar
        - Integrate Feature: improved wording and display of progress
    - Undo Last Commit: requires only clean Index, but allows dirty working tree
    - added Clean Working Tree (requires "standard.actions.advanced.clean" to be set to "true")
- updated bundled Java to 17.0.5
- updated SWT to v4958r2