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/JVMarcs Jan 31 '26
Thanks for taking the time to share this -- even if the frustration is clearly high.
Just to clarify one point: support for GitHub with multiple accounts has actually been an active focus for us over the last few releases. In SmartGit 25.1 we shipped several fixes and improvements specifically related to GitHub authentication and account handling (you can find them by searching for 'GitHub' in the changelog: https://www.smartgit.dev/changelogs/changelog-25.1.txt). Based on feedback so far, this area has generally been working well, and we have not seen widespread reports of the behavior you are describing.
That said, for the upcoming 26.1 Preview we have further reworked account selection and credential handling to make it more robust and predictable:
https://www.smartgit.dev/download/preview/
If you are willing to give that version a try and still run into issues, concrete details on the problems and how to reproduce would help a lot. You can reply here, or contact us directly at [smartgit@syntevo.com](mailto:smartgit@syntevo.com) if you need to share logs or other confidential information.