Patch Set 1: (5 inline comments)

> In the preview pane shown under "Preferences > Team > Git > Label Decorations" a '*' character is shown as branch decorator : "> Project [repository|Conflicts master*]", I think this should be replaced by the arrow annotation

Good catch!

> Did you check the performance impact of this feature ?

No, but I've deployed it to our internal update site and will see how it affects performance (10+ moderately-sized repos).

> I think we should also display this information in the repositories view.

Will do.

> And we could show a more explicit textual hint in the staging view which is the equivalent to git status in EGit, e.g.:

Can we do that in a separate change?

Thanks for the review Matthias!