Custom actions no longer working

rougou November 4, 2019

Custom actions are not working properly as of Windows Sourcetree 3.3.4. In particular they don't seem to execute an external .bat script. Nothing happens.

Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any way to report a bug for the latest versions.

Here is a similar (possibly the same) bug report for a previous version. It's unclear if this bug report is being monitored, so I have posted here.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-12355?filter=-4&jql=text%20~%20%22custom%20action%22%20order%20by%20created%20DESC

12 answers

3 votes
rougou December 10, 2019

Just to follow up, I downloaded and installed the older version 3.2.6, which is still the one linked on the Sourcetree homepage, and now custom actions and terminal are working properly. It seems updates have been disabled as well.

https://sourcetreeapp.com/?v=win

 

It seems the Sourcetree team are phasing the release and I was one of the guinea pigs.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/How-could-I-get-the-3-3-4-version/qaq-p/1237877

dragonfly4 December 27, 2019

Thanks, same problem as I also received the 3.3.4 update

2 votes
algorythmn February 10, 2020

I've noticed I cannot run Custom Actions also with the 3.3.x releases, still an issue with 3.3.8.

Andrew_Cooke February 13, 2020

I just discovered this does not work too. 3.3.7 here

1 vote
Martin Webb January 24, 2020

I am also facing this problem in 3.3.6 - My custom actions do not even show up when I right-click on selected files...

John Michael Go-Soco January 29, 2020

I'm on 3.3.6 and have the same problem.

This is a really useful feature. When can we get this fixed, Atlassian?

0 votes
Scott Morgan September 17, 2020

I just installed on a new system and I can't set up my custom action to diff a commit to the one before it.  I don't have "open separate window" checked.

Even putting just git with a param of diff fails.  On my older system with an older version of source tree I'm able to use Beyond Compare (via git difftool) to compare a commit with the previous one.

Scott Morgan September 17, 2020

My issue was git.exe wasn't on my system path.  Once I added it things started working.

0 votes
Mattias Ahlholm September 2, 2020

FYI The problem persists in version 3.3.9 but the fix with unchecking "Open in a separate window" still works

0 votes
Miki Watts August 16, 2020

While the solution above does work, my problem is that I do need a custom action to run in a separate window, since it's a process that does several merges and can pause to let the user correct any merging conflicts.

0 votes
John Michael Go-Soco June 21, 2020

Posting this here for more visibilty. Source: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/Custom-actions-no-longer-working/qaq-p/1219284#M36507

 

To make custom actions work, you need to make sure "Open in a separate window" is NOT ticked. This is found in the properties of each custom action you create/edit.

0 votes
Ivo Roes June 9, 2020

Still issue in 3.3.8 , Atlassian please help!

0 votes
Alexander St. John May 27, 2020

Still an issue. Version 3.3.7

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Michael April 22, 2020

After I installed ver. 3.3.7 few days ago the Custom Actions stopped working, no matter what I did there was nothing, not even an error. After some googling I ended up here and subscribed to this issue to get any update.

I don't know what happened, but yesterday when I tried to create a custom action - it worked! I have no idea what has happened, the version of SourceTree remains the same: 3.3.7.

Here's my action definition:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfCustomAction xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<CustomAction>
<Caption>Compare Commits</Caption>
<Target>C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe</Target>
<Parameters>difftool --dir-diff $SHA</Parameters>
<OpenInSeparateWindow>false</OpenInSeparateWindow>
<ShowFullOutput>false</ShowFullOutput>
<IsSilent>true</IsSilent>
</CustomAction>
</ArrayOfCustomAction>

Here's a GIF showing that it really works.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MT4dL8Wsdqe-0b6t6bGN6n237hYuSr09/view?usp=sharing

wjlin111 June 20, 2020

hi,all,

Yes, It's real!!
I try it, SourceTree v3.3.8

 

1. Please don't make "Open in a seperate window" checked.

2. Then restart SourceTree. And try it.

It's worked.

The issue looks like "Open in a seperate window".

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John Michael Go-Soco June 21, 2020

Confirmed - I've unticked "Open in a separate window" in each Custom Action and they work!

Fedor Gambalev July 17, 2020

Custom Action doesnt work in SourceTree v3.3.9.
Same Solution:

1. Don't make "Open in a seperate window" checked.

2. Then restart SourceTree. And try it.

0 votes
Jorge Luque April 21, 2020

3.2.6 works, download the archived version from here:

https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/download-archives

 

3.3.8 (latest version as of 04-21-2020) doesn't work.

0 votes
Juraj Petras February 18, 2020

Same problem here. Custom actions not working anymore. 

The notepad custom action below doesn't even show up. The other show but don't work.

SourceTree Version: 3.3.6

My file C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Atlassian\SourceTree\customactions.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfCustomAction xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<CustomAction>
<Caption>Copy repository path</Caption>
<Target>cmd</Target>
<Parameters>/C echo $FILE | clip</Parameters>
<OpenInSeparateWindow>false</OpenInSeparateWindow>
<ShowFullOutput>true</ShowFullOutput>
<IsSilent>true</IsSilent>
</CustomAction>
<CustomAction>
<Caption>List branches with the commit</Caption>
<Target>C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe</Target>
<Parameters>branch --all --contains $SHA</Parameters>
<OpenInSeparateWindow>false</OpenInSeparateWindow>
<ShowFullOutput>true</ShowFullOutput>
<IsSilent>true</IsSilent>
</CustomAction>
<CustomAction>
<Caption>List tags with the commit</Caption>
<Target>C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe</Target>
<Parameters>tag --contains $SHA</Parameters>
<OpenInSeparateWindow>false</OpenInSeparateWindow>
<ShowFullOutput>true</ShowFullOutput>
<IsSilent>true</IsSilent>
</CustomAction>
<CustomAction>
<Caption>Open In notepad++</Caption>
<Target>notepad++</Target>
<Parameters>$FILE</Parameters>
<OpenInSeparateWindow>true</OpenInSeparateWindow>
<ShowFullOutput>false</ShowFullOutput>
<IsSilent>true</IsSilent>
</CustomAction>
</ArrayOfCustomAction>

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