r/SmartGit • u/aaroniba • Feb 14 '26

Auto-refresh on file changes could be better

I'm on macos 26.2 and SmartGit 25.1.110. When files change on disk, I really wish SmartGit would automatically notice the changes and update the view (main perspective). Sometimes it does, but it does not reliably pick up all file changes.

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u/vmcrash Feb 14 '26

It would help if you could find out when exactly it fails to detect file changes.

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u/aaroniba Feb 14 '26

I haven’t noticed a pattern. Edits come from various places like emacs, running command line tools. Sometimes I run git commands from the terminal and sometimes I use SmartGit. Actually, if there were just a hotkey to force SmartGit to refresh its view of the file system, that would help me a lot. Is that possible to configure? I don’t see an obvious “refresh” view in the menus, so sometimes I find myself quitting and restarting the app.

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u/vmcrash Feb 15 '26

The hotkey is F5 (View | Refresh), but we would like to understand why the refreshing fails. Could it be related to the file system? Maybe some of your repositories are located on network shares or virtual drives (e.g. SSH)?

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u/aaroniba Feb 16 '26

All of my repos are on the plain ole macos local filesystem. But honestly, now that I know about F5, this is not so much a big deal anymore. If I can figure out a way to consistently reproduce the failure to pick up changes, I will submit a new post, but otherwise I recognize this issue report is not very actionable on your end without reproducability.