SmartGit 24.1 Preview 9 (2024-07-12)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Azure DevOps: include link to profile for Cloud settings dialog
- Changes view, Compare: improved inner-line diff based on syntax of selected language
- Checkout: warn if switching will change `.gitmodules` (it might be harder to switch back; sometimes happens trying to check out the wrong branch by accident)
- Clone, GitHub:
	- added options which kind of repositories to query
	- more efficient repository query which gives almost all repositories of the old, expensive query
- Log: honor `diff.renames=copies` when following renames/copies 

## Fixed Bugs
- Cherry-Pick/Squash Commits: possible internal error related to invalid Git commits
- Hosting Providers: configuration of 23.1 is not properly upgraded (UUIDs are missing)
- Investigate: merged changes are not detected as origin
- Refresh: packed refs/replace were not processed
- Window | Reset Perspective: keeps previous layout
- Syntax:
	- Pascal: missed keyword `const`
	- Perl: incorrect lexing after slash
	- PHP: incorrect lexing
	- XML: might be confused by conflict markers
- Standard window:
	- Push: `remote.pushDefault` was not honored

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- JIRA: improve authentication dialog for JIRA cloud
- Refresh: check and warn in case of external `credential.helper`
- Log window:
	- Branches view: delete multiple stashes using Delete-key
- Working Tree and Log window:
	- Push: honor `remote.pushDefault` for new branches
- Standard window:
	- Log, Files: commit diff logic should honor the commit times for selection of what's left and right


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 8 (2024-06-26)
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## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Update Git to 2.45.2 fixing some vulnerabilities


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 7 (2024-06-21)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Clone:
	- asks for Credential Helper configuration when cloning for the first time
	- preselects the repository's *active* branch
	- "URL or Path" should be tolerant if the user pastes "git clone <url>"
- Preferences: added option to configure the Credential Helper during a clone
- Standard window:
	- Merge/Rebase: are rejected now if there are local changes
	- Open in Browser for GitHub repositories
- Syntax:
	- C#: support for verbatim, interpolated strings, string escapes, etc.
- HTTP authentication: ensure that SmartGit's own credential helper is called first
- Setup/Register: should handle URLs which are entered into the License File field and vice versa
- Working Tree, Log window:
	- Repositories view: added Copy Path context menu item

## Fixed Bugs
- Branch, Rename: must not overwrite other branches differing in case only
- Clone:
	- fixed possible internal error when configuring Hosting Provider in on-top dialog
	- if the master password was canceled, "Searching..." was still shown
	- might have failed to ask for passwords of submodule repositories (Standard window only)
- GitHub:
	- Hosting Provider configuration might have failed for specific org setups
	- should not warn for multiple accounts anymore (they are supported now)
- HTTP authentication (credential helper):
	- fixed multiple, recurring prompts when working with multiple GitHub profiles
	- fixed various credential-related problems (regressions since 23.1)
	- might have failed if SmartGit needs to be started up
- Log window:
	- Copy Name/Path: did nothing on Commit selection
	- Reveal: revealing a commit might have hung
- Refresh:
	- gitattributes: attributes for the same file might have been processed in the wrong order
	- should be tolerant in case of "access denied" for (global) config file
- Standard/Log: staged file which has been untracked-renamed in the working tree did not show up

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Bundled Git rolled back to version 2.43.0 due to LFS-related regressions in version 2.45.1:
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.2.txt
- gitattributes:
	- support for macro attributes (CGit compatibility)
	- support for "global" and "system" files (CGit compatibility)
- JRE upgraded to Java 21
- Rollback: added low-level property `rollback.message` to configure/prevent setting the commit message



SmartGit 24.1 Preview 6 (2024-05-23)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Update Git to 2.45.1 fixing some vulnerabilities

## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view:
	- Unified view: selection-related operations should only be available if reasonable for the selected "side" type
	- internal error when trying to stage "left" block at line 0
	- internal error for Unstage Selection for last block in unified diff view
- Log Graph (and Commits view):
	- for .mailmap lines containing <>, mapping is not applied
	- for email-only .mailmap lines, the original Author name is lost
- Refresh: possible internal error if mailmap.file contains an invalid path
- Standard window:
	- adding, e.g., *Reset Advanced* to toolbar fails for "Basic" configuration
- Linux, several text input fields:
	- internal error undoing changes after having typed Chinese characters with Pinyin

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Syntax:
	- Verilog: add support for more literal formats
- Text editors:
	- Find and Replace: should replace the initial selection, too (if matching)
	- Move/Select word: added low-level property `styledtext.wordCaretMovementType` to customize the behavior; the `_` will be treated as word-character, e.g. also for double-click
- Standard window:
	- Commit view:
		- for empty repository, show default branch name (to which the first commit will go)
		- file completion: the currently selected file will be preselected (if possible)



SmartGit 24.1 Preview 5 (2024-05-10)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Preferences:
	- Git Executable: added option to easier selecting bundled Git
- Standard window:
	- Copy URL on current repository tab
	- Windows:
		- Show case-changed files
		- Ability to fix case-changed files
	- Local, Files: fine-tuned context menu

## Fixed Bugs
- Files context menu: Submodule | Add should only be applicable on nested roots
- Files: fixed display of case-changed files in Index
- GitHub: notification "could be configured" should only show up for GitHub repositories
- Preferences:
	- Updates: options for in-place/light-weight updates was not remembered
- Log window:
	- Edit Message: "Select from Log" was only shown for non-HEAD commit
- Standard window:
	- possible display of non-existing renamed in Working Tree list, related to case-changes files
- Linux: internal error undoing typed Chinese (and maybe others) characters

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Compare:
	- inner-line diff improvements for small equal areas at beginning/end
	- inner-line diff improvements for lines with many identical characters
- Files, context menu: group submodule commands, so it is obvious that they are related
- JIRA: improve authentication dialog for JIRA cloud
- Refresh: improved refresh performance for large repositories (UI related)
- Submodules:
	- allow to deinit modified submodules
- Standard window:
	- double clicking a working tree file defaults to Compare instead of Stage, because it is more defensive
	- Files: improve commands in context menu


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 4 (2024-04-16)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Hosting Provider improvements:
	- separate configurations for "cloud" and "enterprise"
	- GitHub:
		- support OAuth-authentication for Git executable with multiple remotes
		- show warnings which GitHub reports about OAuth-inaccessible organizations
- Standard window:
	- Submodule toolbar button with popup for faster switching to submodule; removed previous Submodule category

## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: URL input field was not preselected if clipboard contained URL
- Directories view (Standard window, Log window): sorting was not case-insensitive as in other parts
- Preferences, Hosting Providers: double-click did not invoke Edit
- Push: internal error when trying to push multiple repositories at once
- Linux, MacOS: cloning from URL did not work (URL was treated as file)

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Clone, Repository selection:
	- allow filtering by group
	- ability to repository copy URL
- File editor (git config files): optional auto-save
- Hosting providers:
	- hid simple providers by default; can be enabled with low-level property
	- hid "Use oauth-token for repository authentication (instead of password)" - use low-level properties `*.useTokenForRepositoryAuthentication` for not recommended password access
- Refresh:
	- performance improvements for index-only changes, e.g. after Stage
	- do not display index path for case-changed directories
- Standard window:
	- Commit view: during rebase show the rebased branch instead of "HEAD"
	- removed inline help controls
	- reduced space between toolbar buttons
- MacOS:
	- environment variable detection: invoke shell with interactive option (-i)


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 3 (2024-03-22)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Clone:
	- easier cloning from hosting providers
	- the hosting provider repositories are shown in a tree structure instead of a table

## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view, Compare, ...: several problems resolved for display of non-US-ASCII characters that are not supported by the selected font
- Hosting providers: for some configurations the Domain input field was missing
- Refresh (config): possible internal error if config file ends after subsection name [CgConfigState.parse Buffer.nextGetIndex BUE (2)]
- MacOS: on some systems the row height of tree and table controls was increased

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Split Commit:
	- Continue: if all changes of the original commit were committed, allow to skip the confirmation dialog
- updated SWT
- Standard window:
	- Branches: improved anchor branch selection (source vs. target branch) for pull requests


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 2 (2024-03-11)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Standard window:
	- Graph view: for multi-selection the commit popup was shown when clicking at ref
- MacOS:
	- Commit, Line Length Guides: if the message contained tab characters, the max-length-bars were drawn at wrong position
	- environment variable detection failed if `pwsh` was selected
- Windows:
	- Commit, Rewrap: wrapped incorrectly
- WSL: if appending Windows path was disabled, browser window could not be opened

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Clone:
	- the local path is now split into parent directory and directory name making it easier to place repositories into one or more parent directories
	- even for the first repository a path is suggested
- i18n: updated Chinese translation
- Preferences, Hosting Providers, Add: use popup button to select the type of repository
- Repository Search:
	- if all repositories and groups were deleted before opening the Repository Search, it will group them by path like the repositories found during the Setup wizard
- Setup wizard: stream-lined
	- main window selector became first page
	- Git executable and SSH client are configured by default and can be changed in the preferences
- updated SWT
	- fixing drawing of non-US-ASCII characters in the Changes view and Compare
- Log and Working Tree windows:
	- Files: "Renamed Path" shows new (target) path for rename sources
- Standard window:
	- improved keyboard navigation, e.g.
		Window | Branches cycles through Ref selector of My History and All Branches + Tag;
		Window | Files cycles through Local Files and History Files



SmartGit 24.1 Preview 1 (2024-02-12)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Syntax coloring:
	- support for Gettext .po files
- Log window, Standard window:
	- added the power-user feature "Rollback To" which allows to set the working tree or index to the one of the selected commit
	- Add Remote dialog: for GitHub forked repositories without an upstream remote, it will be suggested
- Standard window:
	- added Edit Ignore File to find a Git ignore file that ignores a certain file, or edit one of the Git ignore files

## Fixed Bugs
- Add Remote: dialog should forget failed previous remote if the repository was changed
- Add Submodule wizard: second page could become too wide
- File Tables (Std/Log/WT): when filtering for ignored files, matching files should be displayed
- Preferences:
	- Git executable page: Git version was not shown if this page was last used before closing the dialog
- Pull: inactive submodules must not be initialized
- Submodules: if "submodule.<name>.active" can't be parsed, it should be considered active (not inactive)
- Standard window:
	- Add Remote did not remember a failed url/name pair
	- Graph: context menu may become disabled in case of concurrent background refresh
	- Index Files: file sorting should not be influenced by Working tree state
- Linux: the temp directory was not reliably cleared on exit resulting on warnings on the next start
- MacOS:
	- File completion did not work at all (no event was sent for Ctrl+Space, using Alt+Space now)
	- preferences and other dialogs:
		- certain controls, especially labels, checkboxes, radio buttons, comboboxes were vertically misaligned

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- updated bundled Git to version 2.43.0
- Background Fetch: initialized submodules are fetched now even if deactivated
- Changes view:
	- Goto Prev/Next Change: won't move the caret into the opposite direction, e.g. if caret is before first/after last change in file
- Changes view, Compare, Conflict Solver, ...:
	- the focused selection color is now kept until a different text control is getting focused (before even showing a context menu or the Find file dialog caused the harder to see unfocused color to be used)
- JIRA resolve dialog: improved texts
- Push: for a forced push the confirmation branch shows the branch name
- Repository Search: starting a manual search aborts now the automatic one
- startup logging to console has been reduced
- Submodule | Deactivate: works now on multiple selected submodules
- Syntax coloring:
	- Markdown: several improvements and fixes for quotes, underscores and <links>
	- Verilog: several improvements and fixes for number literals without bit count, or with ?xz states, backtick constants, missing keywords, identifiers starting with underscores
- Standard window:
	- the Commit button is now disabled if there is definitely nothing to commit
	- Open in Browser (GitHub): when invoked on commit, open <project>/commit/<sha> instead of <project>/tree/<sha>
	- Ignore: should only be available for ignorable files
	- tabs:
		- the middle-mouse-click should trigger on non-dragged mouse-released
		- the left-mouse-click should only select if no modifier is pressed
		- the left-mouse-click with Shift held should close the tab (similar to middle-mouse-click)
- Working Tree window:
	- if a subdirectory inside an open repository is selected, the title will keep showing the repository