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Re: New SourceTree is here

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OSX only though :(

GitKraken[1] was mentioned in the comments on the OP. It seems quite nice, though I haven't had a chance to play with it. 1: http://www.gitkraken.com/

Yeah, I mentioned it ;)

It's pretty good, although I mostly use it for getting a pretty overview of my commit history.

The stage and commit interface is quite nice.

Re: New SourceTree is here

#92
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

Just tried it - few obvious ones on first open:

* Clicking on unstaged/staged files changes the diff view but the highlight on the file works on only half of the files, seems to be random when it works and doesn't work

* Highlight to show which branch is selected is gone (History is selected by default and highlighted, when you click out highlight is gone forever)

* Sometimes diffs are completely blank (https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/29857/194444/fU...)

* UI flickers, is about 2x as slow as previous version

Don't mean to pick apart a free product, but this is a tool we have been using for years and to have a pushed update regress things this much is a surprise.

Re: New SourceTree is here

#93
post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just tried it - few obvious ones on first open: * Clicking on unstaged/staged files changes the diff view but the highlight on the file works on only half of the files, seems to be random when it works and doesn't work * Highlight to show which branch is selected is gone (History is selected by default and highlighted, when you click out highlight is gone forever) * Sometimes diffs are completely blank ( https://s3.a…

Thanks for the feedback. I have passed it on to engineering.

Re: New SourceTree is here

#94
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. This will allow the community to engage with the SourceTree team and provide extensive feedback on future updates. Thanks for all your feedback.

Re: New SourceTree is here

#96
post #80
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…

Have you tried or looked at GitKraken? Anything but drab! http://www.gitkraken.com/

Wow I love this. It's my new Git tool, thank you!

Re: New SourceTree is here

#97

> 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…

Thanks for the feedback. Sure, there are other ways to accept EULAs, but we chose Atlassian Account since it will enable us to integrate other services like Bitbucket and JIRA more seamlessly with SourceTree in the future.

Unfortunately we can't talk about those great features at this stage since they don't exist.

Re: New SourceTree is here

#98
post #90

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…

Hey, thanks for reaching out. We're aware of the Hg related crash. A fix addressing this issue will be out soon!

Re: New SourceTree is here

#99
post #21
post #8

I don't mind SourceTree; it's a great tool to visualize git tree that scratches some itches that gitk doesn't quite. Tree visualization of multiple branches and seamless integration with github/bitbucket are the reason I keep it on my Windows machine. Granted, most of actual git activities are better done via command line, except for chunk editing. Just one chagrin I have with sourcetree is the lack of linux integrat…

> scratches some itches that gitk doesn't quite. Tree visualization of multiple branches... Just a quick PSA that gitk does support multiple branch tree visualization when started with the 'all' flag i.e 'gitk --all'. This roughly mirrors the CLI's 'git log --graph --all'. (not to say that either of these commands have a better UI/UX than SourceTree)

wow, TIL. I really needed to know this. thank you.

Re: New SourceTree is here

#100

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

Just upgraded to 1.8.2.3 - still can't stage multiple files at once like I used to be able to in 1.7.x; i.e. select multiple files and hit space. Also, there's no backup context menu option for this?
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