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by rchhabs 3541 days ago
Hey Everyone, I hear ya - we’re cranking away on SourceTree and have a few things in our hopper coming in a few short weeks that’ll address many of your concerns.

Check out our most recent beta version, SourceTree for Windows 1.9.7 Beta 2 [1] with an updated TreeView to support folder level diffs, support for LFS 1.4.1, improved performance when switching tabs, a huge fix for addressing invalid dictionaries in the Spell Checker registry and many more fixes listed here [2].

We’re also working hard on improving the whole experience. Download Alpha 2.0.0 [3] for a sneak peek at a brand new SourceTree for Windows. Alpha 2.0.0. comes with high DPI support, improved repository browser & bookmarks view, patched memory leak and new tabbed navigation. Just a heads up, there are some known issues with Alpha 2.0.0, but they’ll be addressed in Alpha 2.0.1 in the coming weeks. Feel free to watch the repo to get notified of new builds.

Full disclosure - I’m the Product Manager on SourceTree. LMK if you’d like to chat; there’s a link to my calendar on my HN profile page.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/sourcetree-betas/downloa...

[2]: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/update/windows/beta/ReleaseNot...

[3]: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/sourcetree-betas/downloa...

1 comments

It's good to hear that tree view is coming back. The ui changes around 1.7/1.8 were somewhat annoying, but the removal of tree view "because it was slow" was horribly handled. State "we know it's slow, but it's not widely used and it'll be addressed in x months".. Don't just remove it with no alternative.

Out of frustration, I switched to gitkraken around that time. The main feature it has over sourcetree is auto-stash, which is exactly the type of feature I wish atlassian was working on, rather than more ui revamping.

Either way, I wish you good luck with it, and thanks for bringing a great git ui to Windows.