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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 rogerbinns »

sjstreeting wrote: post #46
mountaineer wrote: post #35

I installed it a couple weeks ago, and I would not recommend this yet. I have appreciated the frequent and easy update process during the beta. But, wow, still a long ways to go performance-wise. In the working copy view, where I spend the most time in ST, most clicks take seconds to respond. I'm optimistic it improves, I've been a fan of the Mac version for a while.

Please could you give us some details about your circumstances & repo at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN ? I test with quite a few repos and your performance experience with the Win beta is unusual - viewing files in the working copy should usually average well under a second. Do you have very large diffs for example? Info about the repo you are testing with would be very useful, especially if it's publi…

Some feedback for you since you probably wouldn't find out in other ways. I used the Mac version for a while comparing against the Github client. SourceTree then insists you register to continue use which isn't unreasonable. However registration wanted me to create an atlassian account of some sort that looked like a really crappy bug tracker (ie yet another username and yet another password on yet another site that I had no intention of using). So I gave up and kept using the Github client (and the command line mostly). I had expected registration to amount to a one off name and address kind of thing.

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

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Post by porker »

acdha wrote: post #59
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...

You have a year to upgrade before Microsoft pulls it completely off of life support: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx If you care about security, performance, usability or even basic things like display text quality, upgrade now.

New computer coming this year - when I decide whether to stick with a Windows PC or switch to OSX...

While I love software, you might have gathered I hate computer hardware and the setup of OS's :)

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

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Post by porker »

ragesh wrote: post #60
porker wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used windows 7 and do like it - it's the thought of reinstalling ~200 pieces of software that's been putting me off. Give me apt for Windows..!

http://chocolatey.org/ is perhaps the closest thing you'll find.

Thanks!

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

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Post by robin_reala »

nahname wrote: post #97
andypants wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has some useful features that I find easier to use in a gui than using command line. For example, being able to see a summary of diffs of all staged and unstaged files, and being able to select particular lines of the diffs and stage/unstage/undo them. Or being able to see commits and diffs from other peoples' branches before I pull them. Honestly, a gui is pretty useful for git, especially when you're doing opera…

>You're missing out on a few git features then. Including diff, which I forgot, what else do you use everyday?

Merge, fetch, rebase, and blame are all daily commands for me.

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

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Post by pooriaazimi »

adamnemecek wrote: post #98
pooriaazimi wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a slow, old MBP (2.53 C2D), and it's very fast, even on big repos (like Sinatra). So maybe your settings are wrong, or something. It's worth investigating if you use ST regularly IMO :)

Sinatra is a big repo :-)?

My Bad. I meant Rails (which is huge)!

Though Sinatra isn't very small either. It has a few thousand commits.

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

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Post by andypants »

nahname wrote: post #97
andypants wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has some useful features that I find easier to use in a gui than using command line. For example, being able to see a summary of diffs of all staged and unstaged files, and being able to select particular lines of the diffs and stage/unstage/undo them. Or being able to see commits and diffs from other peoples' branches before I pull them. Honestly, a gui is pretty useful for git, especially when you're doing opera…

>You're missing out on a few git features then. Including diff, which I forgot, what else do you use everyday?

log, branch, merge, mv, rm, status, fetch, reset

Some more that aren't used everyday, but certainly quite often

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

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Post by akavel »

jstepka wrote: post #9
EugeneOZ wrote: post #6

Free 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

Uhm, excuse me, but the license has a fragment with very strange wording and rather unclear meaning:

"The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed as follows: (a) Installation and Use. Atlassian grants you the right to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computer running a validly licensed copy of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed. 'Validly licensed' means the following: (i) For evaluation, using the software for up to 30 days free of charge, or (ii) After purchasing a single license, using the software on a single computer, OR using the software on multiple computers so long as it is the same person using it"

Could you, or someone, please try to explain what's the intended meaning here, and maybe simplify the original text? Is this really referring to OS license?? Why? Sounds a bit so, but not fully, it is confusing. Please help, kind of fumble point for some people striving to be legal.

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

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Post by ditoa »

heartbreak wrote: post #87
porker wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes I do still run XP - I've kept running it for a few reasons: 1) I've spent months customising this install so it 'just works' for me 2) There's over 200 programs I'll have to find, download and install on Windows 7 (finding my license keys, old binaries etc if necessary) 3) I keep saying I'll replace this PC (from late 2006), so it's not worth reinstalling... :)

Gee, I hope your hard drive keeps spinning, or you'll have a mess on your hands. I think I take the opposite approach. I try to have the most easy-to-reproduce dev (and just general use) environment possible.

Unless I am doing very heavy weight development work all of my dev envs are in VMware Worktstation virtual machines. So flexible to work with and I can archive off the whole devenv with the project once complete knowing I can just load it back up in a few minutes if I need to in the future. Bliss.
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