I have been using TortoiseGit for years on Windows and thinks its pretty good, didnt really need more but ill give SourceTree a try as i like the OSX version of it.
Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
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Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#12I'm pretty new at git and only use github. Why should I use this over the official github client? The official app is pretty easy to use and makes sense to me.
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#13The original SourceTree for Mac is a native Cocoa app. If this Windows version has been written in C# it could potentially be ported to Linux with Mono and GTK#/Qyoto. Perhaps the future is one single cross-platform app?
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#14I'm pretty new at git and only use github. Why should I use this over the official github client? The official app is pretty easy to use and makes sense to me.
I can't think of any reason why you couldn't use both. I haven't used this windows client yet, but on the mac it has quite a few features that really make it worth your while. I still commit and manage git from the command line mostly, but its worth the price of admission just for the graphs and diffs alone.
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#15The original SourceTree for Mac is a native Cocoa app. If this Windows version has been written in C# it could potentially be ported to Linux with Mono and GTK#/Qyoto. Perhaps the future is one single cross-platform app?
I hope not. I like SourceTree the way it is (on OS X) and every cross platform UI toolkit I know produces apps that don't feel native.
IMHO Bitbucket/Atlassian is doing it the right way: Native on the client side.
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#16Great work!
Nice to see companies investing into desktop applications.
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#17Free for beta, but what about prices in general?
SourceTree has been free since joining Atlassian. We'll continue to keep the product free as part of our Bitbucket platform to help developers adopt Git and Mercurial. Cheers, Justen -- Bitbucket & SourceTree product manager
I want to thank you for a great product and a perfect price point. Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but any chance of open sourcing it in the future?
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#18Bugger. Windows 7+. I've had Windows 7 sitting on the shelf since the day it launched, but haven't get got round to installing it...
7 the the first version of Windows that didn't bring me out in hives. Give it a whirl...you might be pleasantly surprised.
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#19Bugger. Windows 7+. I've had Windows 7 sitting on the shelf since the day it launched, but haven't get got round to installing it...
It really makes me wonder what is that they're using that doesn't work for older Windows...
Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
#20I'm pretty new at git and only use github. Why should I use this over the official github client? The official app is pretty easy to use and makes sense to me.
The official Github client is severely crippled and allows you to do little more than clone repos and make commits. This is a full-blown Git client.