Myopic version-control islands

I'm not sure but I think you might like how BitKeeper does it.

Case in point, our tool for checking in changes. It doesn't have a file list of your entire repo, it has a file list of files that changed or are untracked. Seems like a little thing but until we came along it was all the explorer like stuff where you had to go find your changed files.

Would have been nice if screenshots were included in the post.