Please improve the Git Pull dialog

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A very common workflow for me is to pull the latest state of origin/develop when I am working on a branch, so that I know I am working with the latest code. Unfortunately the current dialog box makes this awkward. There might be hundreds of remote branches, and each one has its own tick box. This means:

(a) I have to grab the TINY scrollbar and drag it to find the branch I want to merge (e.g. origin/develop) and ensure that is ticked

(b) I have to scroll through the whole list and verify that no other branch is ticked. I have no reason to believe that it would be, but if it WAS, that could create a serious problem that is hard to rectify.

So, my suggestions:

1. Instead of checkboxes, there is an initially empty list of branches to pull, and a full list of branches to choose from. We would click on a branch to promote it into the first list.

2. In the list of branches to choose from, it would allow a 'favourites' or 'most recently used' list. Perhaps even a 'most recently updated' option.

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Hello Ben Sizer 

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions!
Pull Dialog will be redesigned in a future releases

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