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Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by Axsuul »

manyxcxi wrote: post #6
tempestn wrote: post #2

Wow, people generally dislike change, but the level of negativity in the comments there suggests that these changes really are bad.

Yeah, it got bad shockingly fast. Question though: does anyone really use SourceTree? I've tried using it like 5 different times and it's just so convoluted. It's very ugly, non-intuitive, and doesn't have a lot of features that people use with Git. On Windows I usually grab Tortoise, and on Mac I use Tower. Tower has some limitations and it gets crashy every now and then, but geez they make using a UI worth it. I ge…

I use it and I found it was the best out of all the other alternatives I tried. I find it gives the best visualization to see a git diff of changes.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by Stratoscope »

smaili wrote: post #5

Still waiting for showing all repositories on the left hand side so I don't need to iterate through ten different windows whenever I'm looking to commit something. Edit: Some commenters mentioned SmartGit and GitKraken. Anyone here actually use them?

I use SmartGit every day and like it very much. I'd be happy to answer any questions about it - except for a direct comparison with SourceTree, since I haven't used the latter.

WRT your "still waiting", SmartGit does list all your repos in one panel in the main window, and you can select any of them to work on without switching windows. When you view the log for a repo it opens in a new window, but you can do most work directly in the main window.

One thing about SmartGit is it's definitely not a "dumbed down" GUI - for most of what I do it feels more powerful than the Git command line, not less.

SmartGit is a commercial product if you use it for commercial work (it does have a 30 day trial), or free for noncommercial work.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by acemarke »

manyxcxi wrote: post #6
tempestn wrote: post #2

Wow, people generally dislike change, but the level of negativity in the comments there suggests that these changes really are bad.

Yeah, it got bad shockingly fast. Question though: does anyone really use SourceTree? I've tried using it like 5 different times and it's just so convoluted. It's very ugly, non-intuitive, and doesn't have a lot of features that people use with Git. On Windows I usually grab Tortoise, and on Mac I use Tower. Tower has some limitations and it gets crashy every now and then, but geez they make using a UI worth it. I ge…

I've been using it for the last two years, since our team switched to Git. I like being able to scroll through the commits list, and the ability to easily add hunks or even individual lines by clicking is a vast improvement over `git add -p`. Also Sourcetree has a UI for doing interactive rebasing, which is GREAT for the same reason.

The biggest downside for me is the inability to easily browse the state of a repo at a given commit, like I could with TortoiseHG. I keep around GitExtensions for some of that history browsing. Also, the security software installed on my work machine insists on inspecting new processes for validation, which unfortunately doesn't play well with ST spawning multiple git.exe process trees. Always pegs my CPU and slows things down. Performance is reasonable on other machines, though.

Overall, I find it a useful and valuable tool. I just wish they'd make real improvements instead of this "replace a perfectly acceptable UI with a bunch of unreadable gray lines" nonsense they just pulled. I'm sticking with 1.6.25.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by iLoch »

I usually try to be positive but these changes don't look good. It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren't qualified to make and now the app is unusable.

I'm a huge SourceTree fan - I use it exclusively for Git, but I won't be upgrading until these obvious UX problems have been addressed.

Edit: Also, why do the OS X and Windows versions look so different?!? The buttons aren't even in the same places!

Edit 2: I don't like how negative I was in my initial post. I'm going to give it a try, maybe I'll be surprised.

Edit 3: So I just opened it up.. I think the spacing has been improved substantially. Individual components feel more polished, certainly. The biggest problem though is that the entire app feels like it's defocused because it's all grey. The only colour in the entire application comes from the pale blue used to colour the folders. Pretty lame. The whole UI just feels very drab now. Other than the lack of colour though, it looks better.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by Camillo »

woodcut wrote: post #4

Side topic here: Anyone noticed how bad Git-LFS is? We've been using it in production for dataset versioning and noticed that it's not even at a beta stage, perhaps pre-alpha. It gets corrupted by it's own volition at random, working seamlessly for a day then suddenly 'git clone' will fail repeatedly, until the repository is rolled back, or it magically fixes itself. I don't understand how it got integrated into Gith…

Git-LFS was developed by Github, presumably so they could expand their business to manage more types of content.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by wingerlang »

manyxcxi wrote: post #6
tempestn wrote: post #2

Wow, people generally dislike change, but the level of negativity in the comments there suggests that these changes really are bad.

Yeah, it got bad shockingly fast. Question though: does anyone really use SourceTree? I've tried using it like 5 different times and it's just so convoluted. It's very ugly, non-intuitive, and doesn't have a lot of features that people use with Git. On Windows I usually grab Tortoise, and on Mac I use Tower. Tower has some limitations and it gets crashy every now and then, but geez they make using a UI worth it. I ge…

> does anyone really use SourceTree?

I use it daily, for work and personal projects. Mainly like the fact that I can instantly see the changes in files and unstage/stage only the relevant changes for the commit. I sometimes keep temp code around for weeks without issues because I can easily just _not_ commit it.

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