SmartGit 24.1 RC 4 (2024-10-18)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Fix Case-Change: allow (partially) for modified files, too

## Fixed Bugs
- Checkout: possible error "Could not resolve HEAD"
- Pull/Push/others: external credential.helper may be overridden even if "Use SmartGit for authentication" was unselected
- Syntax:
	- C++: allow 0x0C (Formfeed) as whitespace character
	- Shell: emojis break syntax coloring
- Log window:
	- Files view (for selected commit): could not drag file to external application, e.g. editor
- Standard window:
	- could not drag file to external application, e.g. editor
	- internal error clicking certain notifications for which the related repository tab already has been closed

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- updated translations, especially Japanese


SmartGit 24.1 RC 3 (2024-10-10)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone, Directory Name input field (Windows): internal error entering a drive letter followed by colon
- Commit dialog: mnemonics for controls after the message input field did not work any more (regression)
- GitLab: possible error "Token was revoked" after updating personal access token in the Preferences
- Log graph: the first filtering caused a noticable flickering
- Split Off Files: setting the low-level property `log.splitOffFiles.prefix` to empty produces commit message starting with "null"
- Syntax:
	- Markdown: characters >= 0x80h were not parsed correctly
	- Shellscript: backslash in conditional expression was not parsed correctly
	- several languages: possible internal error with \ on end of line


SmartGit 24.1 RC 2 (2024-10-07)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: changing a missing Git executable in the occurring preferences dialog required the Clone wizard to be reopened
- Commit dialog: Alt+M does not select message input field, but popup button
- File Compare (Show Changes): line endings could become duplicated if they were stored as CR LF in the repository
- Syntax:
	- HTML: incorrect parsing
- Working Tree window: working tree with --separate-git-dir is not correctly refreshed
- Linux:
	- maximizing a window remembers the location (0, 0) instead of the previous one
	- Ubuntu 24.04: not restoring window's maximized state


SmartGit 24.1 RC 1 (2024-09-26)
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## Fixed Bugs
- Clone: possible unexpected credential helper dialogs and other weird behavior in combination with background refreshs
- Compare, syntax-based-diff: plain text areas were not handled correctly
- File Compare: Export to HTML: produced hard-to-read colors on dark theme
- GitHub: internal error trying to access non-existing repository
- Preferences, Git executable: combobox might not show other options
- proxy environment: catch potential NPE in JDK
- syntax coloring:
	- HTML/XML: internal error for invalid syntax which might happen when editing
	- Shellscript: incorrect parsing of nested structures
- Standard window:
	- Graph: unepected back-and-forth layout if an invisible ref was on one commit

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Standard window:
	- "Open in Browser": renamed to "Open in GitHub"
	- Pull request from a fork is not shown


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 13 (2024-09-11)
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## Fixed Bugs
- MacOS: notarization was silently broken
- GitHub: for transferred repository, pull requests did not show up
- Syntax:
	- Innosetup Script: did not support `{ }` or `(* *)` block comments in `[code]` section
- Standard window:
	- pull requests sometimes don't show up

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- Standard window:
	- GitHub: improved performance for fetching many pull requests


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 12 (2024-09-05)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Changes view: Apply Line should work for equal-size-block, too (similar to File Compare)
- GitHub: ability to select issue similar to JIRA support
- Investigate: optionally follows insignificant merges (experimental)
- Rollback: should work (for Files) in Graph diff mode, too, if one of the selected commits is HEAD
- Standard window:
	- Commit: allow Push option also for local (non-tracking) branches
	- Directories: Subdirectory Log
	- Finish Feature: pull only relevant branches

## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view: misleading "Submodule does not exist" error for non-existing commits
- Git configuration: custom HOME env variable (and thus custom ~/.gitconfig) was not honored anymore
- GitHub:
	- internal error when refreshing pull requests
	- NPE when author was "ghost" (obsolete user account)
	- NPE while iterating pages for Repositories
- Graph: several drag and drop related regressions
- Investigate: possible error "Could not resolve HEAD"
- Remove: should not be enabled for submodules (it's not working anyway)
- Revert: extended rebase logic
- Split Commit: could not commit with Commit dialog (but with Commit view)
- MacOS:
	- Repository | Edit Git Config | Repository: could immediately hide the window if the mouse was over a window part that showed a tooltip
	- possible umlaut problem
- Standard window:
	- internal error when selecting virtual and regular commit

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- About dialog: show license identifier (like Contact Support)
- "External credential helper detected" notification: optionally make SmartGit handle the authentication
- GitHub/GitLab/others: improve error handling
- Index Editor and other windows: improve felt opening performance
- license-server: proxy support
- Preferences:
	- Git Config: show paths of detected Git config files
- Stash Selection: improve error handling if selection contains conflicting (= unstashable) files
- update SWT:
	- workaround for https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/924
	- workaround for performance problem for characters < 0x20
- Working Tree window:
	- Branches: show content for bare repositories, too
- Working Tree/Log windows:
	- Checkout: for the Stash/Discard dialog in case of local changes, let the user confirm Discard a second time


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 11 (2024-08-22)
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## New Features, Improvements
- Blame/Investigate: honor "diff.renames=copies" when following renames/copies
- Blame: for "View Commit", denotes if the file path has been changed
- Changes View, File Compare: rework "Ignore Whitespace" option(s):
	- "Ignore Whitespace" option instead of "Ignore Leading" and "Ignore All"
	- Changes view: added toggle button in view header
	- the option is automatically reset for local files if a different one is selected (to avoid unintentionally commit unseen whitespace changes); in committed files it is preserved
- Log, Working tree window:
	- optionally stage/unstage on double-clicking a local file (Preferences, page "User Interface")
- Preferences:
	- Git Executable: added option for using own credential helper (ignoring any system one)
- Linux and macOS:
	- bundled Git now comes with ready-to-use LFS configuration like the Windows bundled Git

## Fixed Bugs
- Changes view:
	- possible internal error when applying lines for syntax-dependent tokenizing
	- Apply Selection: should only be applicable for full line of an added block, not for arbitrary subsets
- GitHub/others:
	- Edit dialog continued to reject configuration after having created a token for an overlapping account once
	- possible internal error when opening a github.com repository, but having configured an on-premise GitHub Enterprise instance only
- Refresh:
	- `.gitattributes` "working-tree-encoding" was not honored
	- possibly confusing missing-untracked detection
	- is now tolerant for FileSystemLoopException
	- External credential helper notification showed wrong config path
- Syntax:
	- Java: buggy parsing of text block containing double-quotes
	- Shellscript: internal error for herefodc in file with Windows line endings
- Standard window:
	- Configure Features: did not save empty feature prefix
	- Integrate:
		- did not update submodules
		- did not work for empyt feature prefix
- Linux:
	- bundle still used old Java version

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- update bundled Git to version 2.46.0
- Add Repository: change default of low-level property `repository.suggestMostAppropriateGroup` because the behavior often was unexpected for users
- Changes view:
	- Apply Selection: is now tolerant if full line content but line endings has been selected
- Completion: introduce low-level property `completion.useAltAsModifier` to be able to get Alt+Space (instead of Ctrl+Space) working on MacOS if Ctrl+Space is already used by switching keyboard layouts
- JIRA: better default query for "Select from JIRA"
- GitHub: uses new libary Apollo GraphQL
- Log graph:
	- Hamburger menu, Author Avatar > Only If Changed: changed default to unselected (raised too many questions by users)
- Proxy: support NO_PROXY and no_proxy environment variables
- Refresh:
	- added low-level property `refresh.evaluateContentChangesForModifiedFileMode`
- SSH: removed outdated and unused SSH libraries
- Standard window:
	- Pull: optionally allow local modifications by setting low-level property `standard.pull.allowDirtyWt`
- Log window:
	- Files: improve table columns for working tree state
- Linux:
	- disable SVG support (can be re-enabled with `changesView.showSvgAsText`) because it was not supported on other platforms and was not very good
	- WSL: warn for host-mounted repositories
- macOS:
	- trying to use the home directory as repository did not work because of file permission issues


SmartGit 24.1 Preview 10 (2024-08-05)
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## New Features, Improvements
- File Log: provide Open link for appropriate hosting provider
- Git-Flow:
	- Finish Release: support fast-forward master
- Rebase: when invoking on a commit from the HEAD history, offer to rebase this single commit
- Rebase Continue: warn before applying unstaged working tree changes

## Fixed Bugs
- Azure DevOps: Create Pull Request opened wrong URL
- Git: possible inconsistent processing of gitconfig file
- GitFlow:
	- Finish Release with squash did not work for custom base branch
- GitHub (and others):
	- refreshing failed for multiple configurations for the same hosting provider
- GitLab: token expires too frequently
- Log graph:
	- possible internal error related to invalid commit data, e.g. no author
	- dragging a single commit onto its history should offer to Rebase, too
	- internal error when clicking bugtraq link
- Preferences, Tools: Add/Edit dialog may grow too large
- Refresh (file monitoring): fix for Windows directory mounts
- Syntax coloring:
	- ANTLR: did not support \u{12345} escape
	- C#: failed to parse double-quote character literal '"'
	- HTML: did not report whitespace correctly
	- JavaScript/TypeScript: incorrect lexing of recursive template mode
	- JavaScript/TypeScript: failed on @
	- Ruby: failed on @
	- Shellscript: failed on $
	- Swift: failed on @
	- Swift: identifiers can contain unicode characters, e.g. emojis
- Log window:
	- GitHub (and others):
		- fetching pull request did not properly reveal anymore (regression from 23.1)
- Log and Working tree windows:
	- show "current" branch for empty repository
- Standard window:
	- Commit: for empty repository, show the correct branch which will be used when committing

## Other Noteworthy Changes
- history-related commands: improved message if commit reorganization is not possible/supported
- Preferences:
	- Git executable page: show also LFS version
- Setup: ask user (again) which Git executable to use; don't ask if only the bundled git was found
- Syntax coloring:
	- Ruby: support heredoc
- Syntax diff: instead of crashing for buggy lexer, highlight remaining part of the file as invalid


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