I would like it to be quick and easy to see for each project, which branch or version (as appropriate to the version control platform it is) each project is currently at.

eg: CVS has branches.  but, how do you know which branch is currently checked out??

today, you have to either switch over to file view and then drill in to each version control file and see it, or, make a superficial change, in order to then see to which branch this change would be checked in.

surely we can do better!

I was thinking having this information added to the 'tips' that appears after hovering over a project name (in the projects pane), but, perhaps a new pane would better be able to show all of them at once, so that one does not have to try to 'remember' what each is would be even better.