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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

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Post by bitcartel »

far_far_away wrote: post #15
bitcartel wrote: post #13

The 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.

Check out Xamarin Studio. It's a full blown IDE and it's quite impressive in terms of native feel. Apparently written in C#, Mono and GTK#.

http://xamarin.com/studio

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by netcraft »

dreen wrote: post #19
porker wrote: post #4

Bugger. 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...

I think it installed .net framework 4.5 - which according to Wikipedia is vista and above. And I bet they just didn't care to support vista.

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by lttlrck »

dreen wrote: post #19
porker wrote: post #4

Bugger. 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...

Perhaps they just don't want to invest in ensuring backwards compatibility, in particular testing overhead.

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by kyrra »

johncoltrane wrote: post #7
winter_blue wrote: post #5

Is there anything like this for Linux? And has anyone managed to get this up and running with Wine/PlayOnLinux?

SmartGitHG's name sucks hard but it's close to SourceTree feature-wise: http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/index.html

SmartGitHG is a nice alternative, but it does cost money ($79), while SourceTree is being given away for free (as a way to push BitBucket).

I would love to see a Linux version of SourceTree, but it may be a while. As was pointed out by one of their employees before, they write each application as a native app for each OS to provide the best possible experience, so adding a new OS means adding a lot of work.

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by jstepka »

netcraft wrote: post #17
jstepka wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Thanks for using SourceTree!

We distribute source for JIRA, Stash, etc if you're a paying license holder for better plugin development. This is something we'll be sure to review if we add plugin support to SourceTree in the future.

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by vyrotek »

kayoone wrote: post #11

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.

Have you tried GitExtensions? I originally tried TortoiseGit after having used TortoiseSVN for years but it never felt quite right. But, now I'm thinking of switching to SourceTree. :)

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by pnathan »

I have ST on my Mac. It's a pretty beefy machine - i7, 4gb of ram. And it runs like a lazy dog in a hot August day in North Carolina, i.e., very slowly.

I really wish it'd be sped up and I sincerely hope that the Windows version is massively faster.

Re: Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

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Post by darklajid »

porker wrote: post #4

Bugger. 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...

So.. You're either running Vista (and I really doubt that, because the upgrade to 7 is more or less straight forward, you'd have done it a long time ago) or the long dead, end of life, unsupported, zombie OS called Windows XP.

Which is fine. But shouldn't you _expect_ being left out by now? XP came out in 2001 (hazy memory, quoting Wikipedia). OS X (10.0, Cheetah) came out the same year. What's the minimum requirement for the Cocoa app?

Well, a quick lookup says 10.6, which is from 2009. Which, incidently, is the same year Windows 7 came out. So Sourcetree needs an OS that is no more than 3.x years old..

Bugger?

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