spdr870/gitextensions — pull request #876 by vcpp (2012-04-11 20:41:52+00:00)
Title: Show current working dir changes panel by default

GitExtensions has a great feature called “Show repository status”, it shows an icon with count of uncommitted changes that allows to quickly determine current working dir status (instead of opening “Commit” dialog just to take a look).

This feature is turned off by default and user should explicitly check corresponding checkbox in settings to use it, so many users don't know about this feature at all. Every time I help my friends to “discover” that magic checkbox, I listen something like “wow, this should be available out of box”.

Possibly this feature was implemented as disabled by default due to performance impact (#230), but it was fixed in #452, so I don't see any more reason to hide so cool and useful thing.