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Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by ptibbetts » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 9:35 AM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #22

The recent SourceTree release was dire, aside from the UI changes, it was just broken in too many places. This happens, but what really got my goat was the original tweet in this thread, https://twitter.com/cody_watkins/status/700023288085372928 . It wasn't a beta version, it was a main release and the quality was too poor for them to admit it. This is just sleazy PR.

The quality was poor even if you could get it to work; signing into Bitbucket (also by Atlassian) repeatedly crashed the app for me, which wouldn't have been a problem if it didn't automatically attempt to (and then hang) every time I opened it.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by PlzSnow » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 9:35 AM UTC

Why make it require MacOS 10.10?

It's not compatible with OSes over a year old?

This is absurd developer laziness.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by tehbeard » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 9:49 AM UTC

tychuz wrote: post #46

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?

>Edit: Some commenters mentioned SmartGit and GitKraken. Anyone here actually use them? GitKraken took like 400+ mB on my Mac. That's quite insane for such a simple application.

electron app + whatever junk (tests, docs, examples) module maintainers didn't hide with an .npmignore.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by juandazapata » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 9:55 AM UTC

Learn how to use the Git command line. You will never regret it. In the past, I could only use git using Git Tower, but when I was forced to use the command line, I never went back. The level of granularity is fantastic. Also you won't look ridiculously incompetent when you're pair programming with a co-worker and they don't have the SourceTree/Kraken/Tower/etc.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by tehbeard » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 9:56 AM UTC

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?

Kraken certainly feels snappier than sourcetree.

So far my main complaints are the layout in windowed mode (had to pull a few of the panels to make staged/unstaged come out from behind the commit input) and not being able to switch off the Identicons (Getting a rather garish red and green one that's distracting)

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by RealityVoid » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:12 AM UTC

juandazapata wrote: post #64

Learn how to use the Git command line. You will never regret it. In the past, I could only use git using Git Tower, but when I was forced to use the command line, I never went back. The level of granularity is fantastic. Also you won't look ridiculously incompetent when you're pair programming with a co-worker and they don't have the SourceTree/Kraken/Tower/etc.

Funnily, I've been using the command line for git and never used sourcetree. When colleagues started using SourceTree I could not figure how to drop the changes from the graphical interface, felt kind of silly.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by davidspiess » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:13 AM UTC

In Windows drag & drop for staging files is gone completely. Happy to see now my stashed content in the small sidebar after the remotes. Overall the release isn't that bad in my opinion.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by cpeterso » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:17 AM UTC

The only reason I use SourceTree is for its Mercurial support. It has always been very slow, but at least it was actively maintained, unlike the other Mercurial GUI apps I've tested.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by alimbada » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:27 AM UTC

I updated to 1.8.* (Windows) last week when the app notified me of the new version and found it hugely unstable. I've since downgraded back to 1.7.0 and will be continuing to use that until I have a real need to upgrade.

It's a huge shame that SourceTree isn't open source. I'd love to lend my WPF expertise to the project; it seems whoever's working on the Windows version is a bit clueless.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by alimbada » Wed, Feb 24, 2016, 10:31 AM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #57

iLoch wrote: post #16

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 eve…

> It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren't qualified to make and now the app is unusable. At least they tried. I used the previous iteration (Windows) for all of 5 minutes before deciding that the cognitive load which that awful UI caused wasn't worth it. I switched back to CLI+GHFW until Git Kraken[1] entered beta and, well, I no longer see any reason to reconsider my GUI clie…

For the half day that I used the new version before realising it was too broken I noticed that the UX hasn't really changed; the UI has though, i.e. most of the changes are purely cosmetic.