SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and Subversion

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

by DanielRibeiro • 14 years ago

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dav-id• 14 years ago

I wish there was an application like this for Windows!

nreece• 14 years ago

With Phil Haack recently moving from Microsoft to Github, you can expect a polished Git client for Windows sometime soon.

If you're working with Visual Studio on Windows, for now you can use Git Extensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) + Git Source Control Provider (http://gitscc.codeplex.com/)

grandpoobah• 14 years ago

Came here to say the same thing. I love TortoiseHG but it does lack polish, and TortoiseGIT is clunky as hell.

ezquerra2• 14 years ago

Could you elaborate? In which way you feel that TortoiseHg lacks polish? I'm not saying it doesn't, but we are really trying to make it the best cross platform mercurial client out there and are always looking for ways to improve it. Suggestions and constructive criticism are always welcome!

frndaupm• 14 years ago

I really miss all those apps like Coda, Tower, SparrowMail or SourceTree on my Windows machine too :(

josephcooney• 14 years ago

After many years working with TFS' GUI, and TortoiseSVN when I switched to Mercurial and Git I just stayed with the command line. I've been much happier since.

nphase• 14 years ago

Atlassian: Please spend less time reinventing the wheel and more time on integrating git and mercurial into Jira Studio/Atlassian OnDemand. The existing integration is quite lacking, and the community has been incredibly vocal about it: https://studio.atlassian.com/browse/JST-2090

cowmix2• 14 years ago

They 'bought' this client.

gyaresu• 14 years ago

Immediately having problems saving Remote Repository Settings. Just won't save a new Remote Repo.

Buggy as...

cowmix2• 14 years ago

Please note: if you use SourceTree as a Subversion client and you store your local repo in git format, empty directories will not be tracked or versioned.

sshah• 14 years ago

We have some team members who aren't so command line savvy(don't ask why). I recommend source tree to them and they are quite happy with it (which means others can work without interrupts). It's a decent app for basic/everyday things.

jonpaul• 14 years ago

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Hates_• 14 years ago

Although not free, I've been using Tower a lot lately for Git, even though I had used the command line interface for the past few years. I just find it a lot easier to divide chunks of work up into smaller commits using it rather than on the command line.

http://www.git-tower.com/

If you're a vim user, then vim-fugitive is also worth looking at!

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

pbreit• 14 years ago

Mac Mercurial users should also check out (ha ha) MacHG. For me, it feels a lot better than SourceTree and just hit 1.0 beta.

http://jasonfharris.com/machg/

bryanlarsen• 14 years ago

For emacs, there is magit.

nailer2• 14 years ago

I've been using Sourcetree for around a year now. It's good, but I've had the following issues:

- UI was very slow due to constantly polling the server - now fixed

- Chokes on very large binary diffs (about a month ago - a whole bunch of static files were added to a repo, switching between branches becomes a pain). Tower was able to handle this fine.

- It uses an embedded git binary, rather than a library. I don't trust apps that scrape command line tools, I expect at some point the tool will produce output that has not been anticipated.

SimonB86• 14 years ago

The use of the embedded Git binary is optional though; you can configure SourceTree to use the system installation of Git.

nailer2• 14 years ago

I'd prefer it not to scrape stdout from a a git binary at all, but rather a use a real library with well defined interfaces.

SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial and Subversion

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