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New SourceTree is here

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Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by seraphine »

dantiberian wrote: post #34

> With the new versions of SourceTree, you’ll be prompted to review and accept Atlassian’s Customer Agreement and Privacy Policy. To ensure that it is really you that’s accepting these changes, we’re prompting every user to enter their existing Atlassian account credentials or create an Atlassian account. This smells like BS to me. 99% of all installable apps with EULAs including from big companies like Microsoft, Ap…

You have always been forced to register, but previously it was with a 60 day "trial" before it demanded a key and stopped working.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

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.

Hey David - it was a mistake on our side. Said that we're planning a new beta release process for our upcoming SourceTree releases and we’ll share more in a blog post in the coming days.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

dantiberian wrote: post #34

> With the new versions of SourceTree, you’ll be prompted to review and accept Atlassian’s Customer Agreement and Privacy Policy. To ensure that it is really you that’s accepting these changes, we’re prompting every user to enter their existing Atlassian account credentials or create an Atlassian account. This smells like BS to me. 99% of all installable apps with EULAs including from big companies like Microsoft, Ap…

You already needed an Atlassian ID to download the ST licence in order to use it after 30 days.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

alimbada wrote: post #72
bhagyas wrote: post #23

The new update requires you to login to an Atlassian account and you will be locked out from using Sourcetree if you refuse to login. Avoid if you don't have an Atlassian account, don't want to create one or don't want to be logged in. http://imgur.com/lsI2M9o

Also, the login window on Windows is a web browser view which uses Internet Explorer and keeps throwing up modal script error windows. Edit: Admittedly, I have IE8 installed on my work laptop. Not sure if IE11 has the same behaviour.

Please try it with 1.8.2.2 and let us know if you are still having the same issues

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

taneq wrote: post #40
bhagyas wrote: post #23

The new update requires you to login to an Atlassian account and you will be locked out from using Sourcetree if you refuse to login. Avoid if you don't have an Atlassian account, don't want to create one or don't want to be logged in. http://imgur.com/lsI2M9o

When you first install Sourcetree (and every year thereafter) you have to register it with an email address. Is this just that or is it different? (ie. have they started requiring an always-on connection to Atlassian or something?)

You already had to register with an email address after 30 days to continue to use SourceTree. Now we are asking you to register upfront after you download the latest release of SourceTree.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

mathiasrw wrote: post #39

Wow - whats up with forcing people to login - what is the catch? what is the point? Feels like when an app wants access to your GPS, contacts and microphone and you wonder for what reason...

You already had to register to use SourceTree 30 days after

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

alimbada wrote: post #69

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.

Did you try the latest release? Let us know if you see it is still unstable

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by rajksarkar »

cmicali wrote: post #77

I don't know why they have not pulled the new version yet.. apart from the login issue that blocked most people from using the app, there are so many regressions and new bugs it is unusable. I'm surprised to see such a big misstep from Atlassian.

Please try the latest releases published on Mon and let us know what issues you are running into

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by woodcut »

thatguysteve wrote: post #78
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…

Curious about the git clone failures, did you have to fix errors on the client side, or update the repo to get it to work again?

Most of the time it'll say "TLS handshake timeout" in the logs, so I just wait for githubs amazon instances to come back online. Other times its something I committed that others can't pull, so I'll revert then re-commit. A divining stick is recommended.

Re: New SourceTree is here

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Post by mamcx »

I always like sourcetree, mainly because is the best mercurial GUI client I have used so far, and the ability to do git with the same tool is great.

I use the command-line for basic task, but the GUI is great for visualization and do stuff like diffs, conflict merge and other things.

However, lately sourcetree crash every time I open it, then re-open and it work (!). The tool is good enough to accept this so far.

But now I'm worried that this get worse...

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