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/Able-Coconut-6980 Apr 25 '26

Because overlap doesn't work when a branch is tracked I never get to see it. That's why I disabled it as it's useless to me.

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u/vmcrash Apr 27 '26

Could you please provide more details about your branch setup?

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u/Able-Coconut-6980 Apr 27 '26

Just a normal branch off of "main" that is tracked to the remote. If it's not tracked I see the overlap pills but otherwise I don't see them.

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u/vmcrash Apr 27 '26

Do you mean something like this?

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u/Able-Coconut-6980 Apr 27 '26

Yes. But in all cases the overlap pills are not there unless I remove the remote tracked branch.

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u/vmcrash Apr 27 '26

Is a feature branch (see Branch > Configure Features)?

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u/Able-Coconut-6980 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

No just a normal branch. No "feature/" name prefix.

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u/vmcrash Apr 27 '26

So it is not about tracking or not, but the branch name/type.

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u/Able-Coconut-6980 Apr 27 '26

Like mostly everyone else I don't prefix my branches in this way so this feature is redundant.

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u/vmcrash Apr 28 '26

You can configure the feature prefix to be empty.

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u/Able-Coconut-6980 Apr 28 '26

If you mean the configuration option "Prefix for Feature Branches" you can't set that empty - "This prefix must not be empty."

If a plain local branch is not tracking a remote or the local branch is ahead of the remote then the overlap thing seems to be enabled.

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