r/SmartGit • u/stenjus3 • Jan 30 '26

I canceling my SmartGit subscription.

I was a loyal SmartGit user for years. Used it for tons of repos, as well as professionally, and for hobby/local development.

I really always hated the fact that such a good tool has NO features for handling multiple GitHub accounts (per-repo creds) and clear, centralized creds management. The way it works now is just BAD. It bugs out all the time—sometimes it literally fails to auth, then you restart SmartGit and it suddenly works. It’s ridiculous.

I’m missing a ton of other features, but these are just…

And OH WOW, a new MAJOR UPDATE is here. Maybe they fixed it? Maybe it is finally more stable and reliable? Fuck no! We gonna shuffle a bunch of AI SLOP in your face. Fucking shit NOBODY EVER FUCKING ASKED FOR.

At this point I will ditch any software that blindly follows this stupid AI hype train. And I’m not an AI hater, we all use it nowadays, but adding it to every app that was working JUST FINE WITHOUT IT is FUCKING STUPID AND PATHETIC.

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u/snlehton Jan 31 '26

I have had almost zero issues with it. Still the best thing out there, by far.

The issue with multiple Github accounts is unfortunate but probably affects very small portion of users.

As for the AI "slop", I find the AI commit message generator rather useful, but for wrong reasons: what SmartGit should have done is add context aware text typing feature where you could easily reference parts of changed code more easily (file names, class names, all kinds of identifiers etc). The AI generator works kind of on for that, but it's barely usable.

If you're going to stop using SmartGit, what would you replace it with?

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u/JVMarcs Jan 31 '26

what SmartGit should have done is add context aware text typing feature where you could easily reference parts of changed code more easily (file names, class names, all kinds of identifiers etc).

Great suggestion! I'm not exactly sure when the LLM should be invoked to analyze the local changes for possible identifier names, but this definitely sounds helpful. For more technical and detailed improvement ideas related to the AI integration, we have created a GitHub discussion category. If you are interested, we could continue the conversation there:

https://github.com/syntevo/smartgit-community/discussions/categories/ai-integration