New SourceTree is here

I usually try to be positive but these changes don&#x27;t look good. It looks like some overzealous designer started making UX decisions they weren&#x27;t qualified to make and now the app is unusable.<p>I&#x27;m a huge SourceTree fan - I use it exclusively for Git, but I won&#x27;t be upgrading until these obvious UX problems have been addressed.<p>Edit: Also, why do the OS X and Windows versions look so different?!? The buttons aren&#x27;t even in the same places!<p>Edit 2: I don&#x27;t like how negative I was in my initial post. I&#x27;m going to give it a try, maybe I&#x27;ll be surprised.<p>Edit 3: So I just opened it up.. I think the spacing has been improved substantially. Individual components feel more polished, certainly. The biggest problem though is that the entire app feels like it&#x27;s defocused because it&#x27;s all grey. The only colour in the entire application comes from the pale blue used to colour the folders. Pretty lame. The whole UI just feels very drab now. Other than the lack of colour though, it looks better.

&gt; 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.<p>This smells like BS to me. 99% of all installable apps with EULAs including from big companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe don&#x27;t require you to login to accept the EULA.<p>If you want people to log in, then sell them on the great features they get, don&#x27;t lie to them.

The new update requires you to login to an Atlassian account and you will be locked out from using Sourcetree if you refuse to login.<p>Avoid if you don&#x27;t have an Atlassian account, don&#x27;t want to create one or don&#x27;t want to be logged in.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;lsI2M9o" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;lsI2M9o</a>

I don&#x27;t mind SourceTree; it&#x27;s a great tool to visualize git tree that scratches some itches that <i>gitk</i> doesn&#x27;t quite. Tree visualization of multiple branches and seamless integration with github&#x2F;bitbucket are the reason I keep it on my Windows machine.<p>Granted, most of actual git activities are better done via command line, except for chunk editing.<p>Just one chagrin I have with sourcetree is the lack of linux integration, despite obvious demand: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;answers.atlassian.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;149631&#x2F;sourcetree-for-linux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;answers.atlassian.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;149631&#x2F;sourcetree-fo...</a>

The recent SourceTree release was dire, aside from the UI changes, it was just broken in too many places. This happens, but what really got my goat was the original tweet in this thread, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;cody_watkins&#x2F;status&#x2F;700023288085372928" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;cody_watkins&#x2F;status&#x2F;700023288085372928</a>.<p>It wasn&#x27;t a beta version, it was a main release and the quality was too poor for them to admit it. This is just sleazy PR.

I&#x27;ve been using SourceTree for years. It was always a little funky in how it was laid out but I got used to it.<p>I could have lived with this change if they didn&#x27;t get rid of freaking COLORS. Seriously. All the icons look more or less the same now. Have to read to make sure I&#x27;m clicking what I think I&#x27;m clicking.<p>I think I&#x27;ll look elsewhere finally. I just can&#x27;t stand another 50 shades of gray interface.

Side topic here: Anyone noticed how bad Git-LFS is?<p>We&#x27;ve been using it in production for dataset versioning and noticed that it&#x27;s not even at a beta stage, perhaps pre-alpha. It gets corrupted by it&#x27;s own volition at random, working seamlessly for a day then suddenly &#x27;git clone&#x27; will fail repeatedly, until the repository is rolled back, or it magically fixes itself.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how it got integrated into Github, and now i see sourcetree and other clients support it. gah.

SourceTree served me well for many years. Switched to GirUp 3 months ago and haven&#x27;t looked back since. Highly recommend it. It&#x27;s fast.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitup.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitup.co&#x2F;</a>

I had to revert back to the old version with &quot;ugly&quot; icons as soon as I&#x27;ve got the new update since the new UI is so terrible and hard to look at. Not to mention it keeps on crashing.

In my opinion a huge strategic error not to write a cross-platform app. Now they have two separate code bases (Mac and Windows) and still no Linux support ever likely. Since I use Linux, like many other developers, this app isn&#x27;t an option.

I don&#x27;t get why Atlassian have a source tree blog if they&#x27;re not going to engage with their users. Last I checked there are 66 horribly critical comments. And no-one from Atlassian have engaged at all.

Wow, people generally dislike change, but the level of negativity in the comments there suggests that these changes really <i>are</i> bad.

Wow - whats up with forcing people to login - what is the catch? what is the point?<p>Feels like when an app wants access to your GPS, contacts and microphone and you wonder for what reason...

Learn how to use the Git command line. You will never regret it. In the past, I could only use git using Git Tower, but when I was forced to use the command line, I never went back. The level of granularity is fantastic. Also you won&#x27;t look ridiculously incompetent when you&#x27;re pair programming with a co-worker and they don&#x27;t have the SourceTree&#x2F;Kraken&#x2F;Tower&#x2F;etc.

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.

if you want to bypass the forced startup wizard&#x2F;login crap on OSX:<p><pre><code> defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS STWelcomeStageAtlassianAccount -int 0 defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS STWelcomeStageCloning -int 0 defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS STWelcomeStageLicense -int 0 defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS STWelcomeStageRemotes -int 0 defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS agreedToEULA2 -int 1 defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS AtlassianAccountEmail -string me@my.atlassian.com defaults write com.torusknot.SourceTreeNotMAS completedWelcomeWizardVersion -int 3</code></pre>

I was using the new version for about a week now and besides some bugs I really don&#x27;t like the new design. After working with SourceTree for 2 years it feels like I have to learn a new application. I&#x27;m now checking out GitKraken which looks quite promising after the first hours of working with it.

On Windows version big repositories are now noticeably faster than with the old version, which makes this feel like an improvement despite its glaring flaws, like the hassle for the mandatory registration with a bogus mailinator email-address, or the brand new UI bugs.

I don&#x27;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.<p>I&#x27;m surprised to see such a big misstep from Atlassian.

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.<p>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.<p>However, lately sourcetree crash <i>every time</i> I open it, then re-open and it work (!). The tool is good enough to accept this so far.<p>But now I&#x27;m worried that this get worse...

I updated to 1.8.* (Windows) last week when the app notified me of the new version and found it hugely unstable. I&#x27;ve since downgraded back to 1.7.0 and will be continuing to use that until I have a real need to upgrade.<p>It&#x27;s a huge shame that SourceTree isn&#x27;t open source. I&#x27;d love to lend my WPF expertise to the project; it seems whoever&#x27;s working on the Windows version is a bit clueless.

Sad about this - just had two long-time friends complain bitterly about it - one moved to Github Desktop, the other downgraded. Used to use it myself on one machine until I started using VS Code (which has a simple and effective Git workflow).

Still waiting for showing all repositories on the left hand side so I don&#x27;t need to iterate through ten different windows whenever I&#x27;m looking to commit something.<p>Edit: Some commenters mentioned SmartGit and GitKraken. Anyone here actually use them?

I hope they can add a higher contrast mode. It is quite hard to see some things.

In Windows drag &amp; drop for staging files is gone completely. Happy to see now my stashed content in the small sidebar after the remotes. Overall the release isn&#x27;t that bad in my opinion.

I&#x27;ve started using Git Extensions, which works really, really well.

The only reason I use SourceTree is for its Mercurial support. It has always been very slow, but at least it was actively maintained, unlike the other Mercurial GUI apps I&#x27;ve tested.

Still no Linux version. I&#x27;m disappointed.

&quot;Say goodbye to the command line&quot; - urgh! Should command line users stay away from this app?

Still no decent Linux GUI for Git :(

buggy. Wait for next versions

Why make it require MacOS 10.10?<p>It&#x27;s not compatible with OSes over a year old?<p>This is absurd developer laziness.