Repository-Related
SmartGit remembers opened repositories and (primarily) GUI-related settings. To open a repository, double-click it. If it already is open in another window when double-clicking, the window with the opened repository will become focused. The repository will open in a new window if the current window is currently executing commands or Open in New Window from the repository’s context menu has been selected. To open multiple repositories at once, use multiple selection (e.g. Ctrl/Cmd+click) and Open from the context menu.
Repositories can be arranged in groups. Right-click the repositories and select the target group or New Group from the Move To submenu. Alternatively, you can use drag-and-drop - either onto the target group or a repository inside the target group (see autoscroll).
Repositories can be marked as favorite using the Mark as Favorite (Unmark as Favorite). Favorite repositories are indicated with an asterisk after the name and are sorted before groups which are sorted before non-favorite repositories. Beside that a couple of background refresh operations are performed on favorite repositories.
Opening a Repository
Use Repository|Add or Create to either open an existing local repository (e.g. initialized or cloned with the Git or Hg command line client) or to initialize a new repository.
You need to specify which local directory you want to open. If the specified directory is not a Git or Mercurial repository yet, you have the option to initialize it.
Settings
Use Repository|Settings to configure certain repository-specific settings.
On the first page you find options related to the Pull command .
On the second page you can configure your name and email address that
will be used when
committing
for this repository. To change the global settings (for all
repositories, in your .gitconfig), select Remember as default.
On the third page you can configure which text encoding SmartGit should assume when showing text files in the Changes view or Compare window. A lot of UTF-8 encoded text files, with or without byte order mark (BOM), can be detected automatically.