Latest Sourcetree update is terrible

[Steven Hartmann]

Thanks everyone for the warning ... I'll skip this update.

Years ago this was a great app.  Every release since the first download has been making changes for changes sake, and usually making the app less useful, or harder to use.

It would be nice if instead of working so hard to ruin a perfectly fine product, they could do something useful, like creating a linux port.

[Lars Paulsen]

First time I tried the app.

Seems like they did test the app, but on the public. Big mistake.

[Michael Bentley]

What's the current state of SourceTree builds? Have they done anything to fix the current revision? I see (for OS X):

2.2.2 minor release

2.2.1 minor release

2.2 major release

I backed up to 2.1 (minor release) right now

[Martin Twigg]

Had to revert to v1.7 as the latest version has affected the git credentials with a proprietary company release tool, which worked perfectly well previously. I am not overly bothered by the new look of the interface, but it was clearer before. 

[ThomasAUZINGER]

I am also using the Windows version and the latest update completely broke the 'stage lines' feature. I just tried it out shortly and the behavior of which lines are staged (if at all) and what the interface showed was completely random (at least I could not find a pattern).

I revert to an older version, which works fine.

[r. brian lindahl]

I'm glad the previous version(s) were functional and useful 99.9% of the time. Makes the downgrade a lot more pleasant.  Now I just have to remember to NOT click the upgrade button for a while. 

[Ueli Scheidegger]

Absolutely useless now 

It locks up after max 2 minutes of use. Menu is still "working" but menu items like "Quit" are not available. I'd rather have the old one with clumsy UI back. At least it was doing the job.

Terrible release!

(OS X)

[thedewi]

1.2.8.3 -

• left a broken entry in "Add/Remove Programs"
• doesn't support keyboard for staging / diff view
• mouse selections in diff view are no longer text-selections (Can't reduce selection, toggle unselection, and you can accidentally select lines while dragging the scrollbar!)
• diff views are still regularly showing the wrong pane or nothing at all
• whitespace in the new design is extremely unbalanced and untidy

And we can't even install the last previous version because there is no "release history" page anywhere, and the autoupdate executable has been mysteriously removed - https://answers.atlassian.com/download/attachments/36184030/2016-02-27%2019-39-06%20Installing%20Updates%20for%20SourceTree.png

I've been recommending SourceTree for years, and I consider it an essential workflow tool, but... I'll be looking around for replacements now.

[marian_heddesheimer]

Same here. It's no longer usable as loading takes forever (over 30 minutes, and still no files showing up). I'll revert back to command line. It's a shame. I really liked the graphical user interface.

[twodogsdad]

To add my two cents worth as well. Not only is the new UI horrible, hard to read, but upon installation and first use Sourcetree showed that none of the previously bookmarked repos existed. I was also not able to directly open any one of the repos. The files were in fact still there however and after re-launching once or twice Sourcetree was able to open them.

Is it possible to easily go back?

Disappointed...

[janetknotek]

I agree with this comment as well.

"I can only see files in one or two columns, but we can't see files sort by folder. So it's not really intuitive than the older version..."

I commit several files a day and it is really easy to miss something when they are not sortable by folder and when I click a file it stages it right away one at a time. Ughh!!

[Mason Berhenke]

The only reason I came here was to post my disgust with this latest update. I couldn't delete repos, couldn't clone direct from branches, stashes were messing up, killed my functionality. For everyone's record, you can access the old version here (which btw, works well): https://downloads.atlassian.com/software/sourcetree/SourceTree_2.1.dmg

[Anderson Fachini]

Git Flow button is back (I update to 1.8.2.2 version and it is there)

[Jordan Darcet]

And a view is missing..

we can only see files in one or two columns, but we can't see files sort by folder. So it's not realy intuitive than the older version...

[jhpeterson]

now my projects say "This repository appears to have been deleted from the file system, or moved somewhere else." but I changed nothing except to install the lastest SourceTree......ugh

[Jim Howe]

I wish I had read these comments before upgrading. The new upgrade is totally broken for me. I can't open any of my existing repositories, things that I was just looking at moments before the 'upgrade'. Somewhere else in this thread I saw some comment about the new version not supporting cygwin git, so perhaps that is my problem, but as things stand the new app is completely useless to me.

[jmcwade]

Since updating, I find that when I am viewing hunks to stage, although it may show several, if I click [Stage Hunk] on any single one of them, I no longer have the option to stage the others. The others vanish. I really appreciated the granularity the way it was before updating. (version 1.8.1.0 on Win 7)

[Demian Turner]

on OS X I cannot login to my github account, it seems to be passing cached password. I've cleared KeyChain but still always get "bad credentials" back from github API.  Of course this username/passwd combo works fine logging in from web.

[zjarkov]

And it no longer works with my cygwin system git, have to use inbuild one.
Also it has a strange behaviors accross the app like when I try to stage files. Maybe it is just about configuration, but it definitely changed and now behaves realy differently

[kbtombul]

My biggest issue is that it's randomly switching to "History" and selecting the last commit in the branch that I last selected on the sidebar, not even my current branch.

Another annoying thing is that when I switch to "Search", paste the hash to the search field and press "Tab" so that I can select "Commit SHA" in the drop-down, it doesn't focus there.

[Michael Bentley]

When the app forces you to log into your Atlassian account, it lops off a letter in my login name when I type the @ sign. I have never seen any login dialog do that ever.

[Michael Bentley]

I'm wondering why each entry in the project tree ends after twenty or so characters with ellipses?

"On develop: stash recent th..." 

The tree pane on this Thunderbolt display is about three times as wide as the entry, there should not be any ellipses at all. 

[jlanam]

Version 1.8 starts with an error message:  

'ssh-agent' failed with code -1:  System.NullReferenceException 

Object reference not set to an instance of an object ()

After that, I tried to resolve merge conflicts. It hung every time after running Beyond Compare.

[Ben_TouchMD]

And with the new update I'm suddenly unable to commit the removal of files, so my repo can't rename files anymore, just duplicate them.

[Carson Lee]

SourceTree osx prompted me with a popup suggesting that I upgrade to version 2.2.   Like a goof, I did, which resulted in an application that wouldn't run, because the minimum OS requirements changed, and it didn't check that I actually have a compatible OS (I'm running 10.9).  The minimum osx version is now 10.10, for version 2.2. Please don't try to upgrade my sourcetree if I won't be able to run the upgraded version.