[solutionyogi]

Couldn't agree more with your point about history v/s file.

This is why I use SmartGit. https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

It has two perspectives, 'Main' and 'Review'. For each perspectives, you can configure different 'windows' to be shown/hidden. Window types are 'Changes', 'Journal', 'Branches', 'Git Output' etc.

For the Main perspective, I configure it to show me History + Remote/Local branches + 'Git Output'. This is when I want to interact with the remote repository.

For the Review perspective, I configure it to display the Files/Folders and Changes. You can configure the 'Files' view to show 'modified' files on the top, review the differences in 'Changes' section below and do quick commits.

Yes, the above is not as nice as Eclipse being able to display semantic changes but it's a very nice workflow and have not found anything better.