Community
Participate
Working Groups
It would be helpful that before a commit is done, that if any of the editors are in a dirty state that it prompts you with a warning that there are unsaved changes.
Code review started on http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,824
merged as e8254039b15b1fd94599328be8180a6943b37cb7
I filed bug 376700 to improve this.