Please bring back the bookmarks sidebar

[Victor Louwerse]

I just upgraded to 2.0 and noticed the bookmarks sidebar is gone. For me, this is NOT an improvement, for the following reasons:

• I have to open a new tab to get an overview of the status of all my repos.
• Each repo takes more vertical space = bad for getting a quick overview of the status of all my repos.
• I cannot open several repos in rapid succession, for example, repos that have updates. I now have to open a new tab, open the next repo with updates, open a new tab again, and so on (in doing so, I also have to look for the point where I left off in the list...)
• No sub-folders possible in the new setup?
• In "All Repos" I don't see which folder a repo is in, so I can never be sure all my repos are in a folder.

Please bring back the bookmarks sidebar as an option.

[Mike Branch]

Agreed. This is a deal-breaker for me. I prefer not to use soure control tools within my IDEs, but I guess I am now.

[Gutbuster]

+1. The current way of displaying bookmarks makes sourcetree completely unusable for my scenario. I work with dozens of different repositories that have similar prefix in their name, and I have to hover over the tabs to see which ones they actually are (Besides having to scroll the list due to screen not being able to fit all of them at once). Not to mention it was very convenient being able to see repository status on the list as well. 

[Patrick Moore]

+1.  Please bring back the bookmark sidebar.  I have several sources repos that I am responsible for and it's nice to know quickly what changes have and  haven't been checked in.

[BlobZop NA]

+1 from me too.

It was very useful.

I have very bad memory and I'm hopping between many things, when I come back to coding (more like learning it), checking bookmarks folder tree of SourceTree was the first thing I do.

I had many folders for Unity and other projects, and under those folders multiple similar projects grouped in one place. This way it was easy to click folder open, then click through projects in a folder, and see where I left the projects weeks ago...

And what is more annoying, the "Local repositories" tab that opens by pressing "+" in tab bar, is horribly formatted. Huge gaps between items, lost space - I'd rather see windows explorer like compact "directory listing" instead of this. Make an option for spacing of lines at minimum.

And bring back the bookmarks window.

[Andreas Symeonides]

I totally agree.  Without the sidebar it is now very difficult for me to be able to see an overview of all of my repositories and to navigate efficiently.  The new way of selecting from local repositories is very inefficient and ugly.

Please bring it back as soon as possible.

[Stuart Moore]

At risk of being a "Me too" person, I completely agree with the above. I have no way of seeing which branches have changes or not, the bookmarks sidebar worked really well. Please bring it back.

[Hugh]

I have 30+ years of experience in software development and it took me 20 minutes to work out how to rename a repository tab. Thanks to this post. And no thanks to the current design.

[Chris Lanning]

Why in the world would they remove it.  It was so easy to see which repositories have updates without having to go into each one.  I don't see a way to do that with this new version. 

Is there an easy way to downgrade back to the older version?

[lbroerman]

Yes!  Upgrade to 1.9 to get back this necessary feature:

http://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/windows/SourceTreeSetup_1.9.9.20.exe

[Chris Lanning]

Hey Lewis, did it let you downgrade without any issues?  I am on version 2.3.5.0.

[George Onofrei]

Hi, I installed 1.9.9.20 besides 2.5.5.x and it worked. Currently using 1.9.9.20 and the left bar is great.

[michael_letcher]

I love the lack of response from the "team" here.

[Mike Branch]

Yeah I think the only reason software companies set up these forums is so we can answer each others' questions and they don't have to bother. Atlassian certainly isn't the only one.

[Luís Braga]

+1

Bring it back, at least as an option!

[Isaac Sousa]

+1

Please bring this feature back!

Thanks

[Rainer Denk]

agree! working with many repos is very uncomfortable/impossible without the bookmarks sidebar

[nofishonfriday]

As long as the bookmarks sidebar doesn't come back I'll stay with 1.9x (aka +1).

[Thomas Schläppi]

+1

Bringing back this feature would improve really my day-to-day work!

[Robin Bornschein]

+1

switching between local repos, and keeping an overview at a glance, was much easier with the bookmarks sidebar.

[Benjamin Klingler]

+1

This kind of efficiency loss adds up over time--would really love to see this added back to the next version!

[Andy Widjaja]

+1

Please bring back the bookmark side bar.  Our team lost efficiency because we have to work with 20-30 repositories.  Having all repositories in a side bar was more efficient.

[Yuriy Voronin]

+1

[salter-smartdeploy]

I found an open issue for this on Atlassian's Jira board if anyone else wants to vote for it https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-7176 There are a few duplicate issues, but that one has the most votes so far.

There are also some promising suggestions for workarounds and alternatives in the comments for that issue.

[nofishonfriday]

Thanks for the link, just voted.

[Stately Pleasure Dome]

unbelievable

[Jesper Lykke Lisby]

I'm staying on 1.9 as well. That bookmarks bar was good UX, whereas the new solution lacks overview.

[Samuelvandevelde]

+1 bring it back! I am shocked it is gone

[Robert Fraczkiewicz]

Me too. Bring back the sidebar.

[Simon Youngs]

+1 bring bookmarks back.

[nofishonfriday]

Bookmarks sidebar is back in Sourcetree 3.1. :)

Thanks for listening!

(Small request: horizontally resizeable, so we could make it a bit less wide...)