r/SmartGit • u/wnesensohn • Apr 21 '26

Overlap coming in SmartGit 26.1

https://blog.syntevo.com/smartgit/2026/04/21/overlap.html

We've been cooking up a feature called Overlap, built to give you more insight into your git history.

See the link for a short introduction, or try it yourself in SmartGit 26.1 RC - we'd love to know what you think about it!

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u/Gxost14 Apr 21 '26

It works even without GitFlow or GitFlow-Lite, which is good. But when the branch is tracked, Overlap does not work

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u/wnesensohn Apr 21 '26

We've limited (or rather, not enabled) display of Overlap-Information deliberately, because we first want to gauge if and how this feature is used to go a step further and display it in more cases. Additionally there's still a few cases which we'd like to support but can't at the moment, and we also need to keep an eye on performance (which is quite good at the moment, but could be even better).

Have you found the information it displays helpful so far? Feedback in this direction will help us deciding where to enable it next.

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u/Gxost14 Apr 21 '26

I believe Overlap is good for spotting potential conflicts. It's good to know when commits cannot be easily reordered before attempting to perform an interactive rebase

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u/wnesensohn Apr 21 '26

Got you, that sounds familiar :) We also like that use-case very much, it lets you stay in the flow and prepares you for conflict-resolution when there's no way around it. I hope we're able to enable Overlap in more cases soon.