My biggest gripe with SourceTree (and Atlassian products in general) is the poor use of screen space. Too bad this new visual look seems to do nothing to fix it.
SourceTree for Windows 2.0
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Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#42How good is this compared to the relatively new Tower Git client for Windows? SourceTree for Windows should be a little more mature but the recent versions felt like a step backwards.
When I tried the Tower beta for Windows it didn't have any support for tabbed repos or anything to make it easier to have multiple repos open at once (we use a lot of git submodules and need to easily bounce between them), so that was a dealbreaker for me.
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#43By the way, did you get the 2.0 update in the old 1.9 version? I didn't :/
Using SourceTree 1.9 or earlier? We implemented a change in the way we roll out updates (announced here) late last year, so if you’re using SourceTree for Windows 1.9 or earlier you will not see auto updates for 2.0. Please download 2.0 directly from our website instead.
Damn, I read this "earlier than 1.9". Sorry.
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#44By the way, did you get the 2.0 update in the old 1.9 version? I didn't :/
Source 1.9 has a fairly different autoupdate mechanism, I reckon they'll push out a reinstall message or similar . FWIW, the beta version did manage to update to final 2.0
> FWIW, the beta version did manage to update to final 2.0
That's great. So hope the updates are now more stable.
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#45The last several times I tried to update Sourcetree, it got significantly worse, with features and functionality being silently removed or broken left and right. Every UI 'improvement' they made felt backwards to me. Simple quality of life things like being able to drag files between the staged/unstaged area just stopped working. Then, trying to guess/figure out the correct previous version you were running that had…
This looks promising: https://www.gitkraken.com/
The required centralised account kind of annoys me, but only because I'm not clear about what's going to happen with my email or account information.
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#46The last several times I tried to update Sourcetree, it got significantly worse, with features and functionality being silently removed or broken left and right. Every UI 'improvement' they made felt backwards to me. Simple quality of life things like being able to drag files between the staged/unstaged area just stopped working. Then, trying to guess/figure out the correct previous version you were running that had…
Honestly, they’ve been pulling the same crap on the Mac version, too. It’s like they purposely went about crippling their own app and making it worse in every way. Every version that comes out is uglier and has less functionality than before. And of course Atlassian could care less. They completely stopped responding on Twitter and started deleting all negative comments on their SourceTree blog. I have an older version for Mac OS X that I use, which I could never upgrade because all the newer versions are demonstrably worse. I hope it continues to work because there are no other native and non-hybrid/electron GUI clients let. (Tower has less than 50% of SourceTree’s features and the developers seem focused on creating a Windows version instead of adding the missing features to the already existing Mac version).
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#47Used to pay for this before it was acquired by Atlassian. Never used it since. Thought I might try, given the major new version number, but... You will be prompted for your Atlassian account details. You only have to login once to complete your registration. No thanks. Be warned, paying users upgrading from 2.x to current 2.3.x will be forced to sign up.
And in Atlassian's license, section 12: "You will not publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Products.". Enables trust a lot... https://www.atlassian.com/legal/customer-agreement
Atlassian have become (probably always were) a horrible, customer-hostile company. This is terrible.
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#48I'll have to give it a try, it can't be any worse than the previous versions, can it?
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#49I'll have to give it a try, it can't be any worse than the previous versions, can it?
Re: SourceTree for Windows 2.0
#50The last several times I tried to update Sourcetree, it got significantly worse, with features and functionality being silently removed or broken left and right. Every UI 'improvement' they made felt backwards to me. Simple quality of life things like being able to drag files between the staged/unstaged area just stopped working. Then, trying to guess/figure out the correct previous version you were running that had…
This looks promising: https://www.gitkraken.com/
Decent client but $60 / year was a bit too rich for me. May be the right price for other people though.
That said, I wish that SourceTree had a Linux client. People complain about it, but given that it's a better client than GitHub's and it's pretty polished; pretty good for free.