New 2.0 tab interface unusable

[Geoff Sokoll]

Agree - bring back the bookmark treeview.  We have many repos (> 75) and this release is unusable without the bookmark pane.

[David Campbell]

Totally agree with this; please bring back the left pane displaying all of my bookmarked repositories displaying their 'git status'.

Which users did you get feedback from? Did they only have one git repo?

The tree structure allows you to be more productive. I may have a single project with 8 or more repositories. I can see immediately see which changes I need to pull to ensure I have the most current changes.

The folders allow all sorts of categorisation: you can group by repos by drives (C, D) or by location (eg. github) or anything else you could imagine.

If GitKraken brings in a treeview, I think many 1.9.10.0 sourcetree users will start using it, even if they have to shell out some cash. It has a compelling and beautiful design.

Atlassian should take a good look at GitKraken and hire a professional UI designer.

[Deleted user]

Bring back the left folder structured pane - maybe as an Option to choose between new and old Interface

[Trang Dinh Van]

Bring back the left folder structured pane as previous please!

[Alex Steffes]

Please bring back Show/Hide Bookmarks (Ctrl+B)

In another discussion, Please re-implement the repository treeview, Ana from Atlassian said :

removing the repository treeview was a decision
made by the SourceTree team based on our user feedback

My question is who are these users giving feedback? Did Atlassian survey these users at all? How many repos did they have bookmarked on average? Are these people employeed at a small or large company? 

This feature is why I use SourceTree and is what I believe makes it powerful and unique.

[Ken Domino]

I agree. This GUI is terrible. I cannot tell which tab is actually the one I select as there is only a 1 pixel boundary change to "highlight" the selected tab. (See red-circled items in the image below.) Further, in the old GUI, I could right click a tab, and get a context menu that would have an option to delete the repository. After fishing through every menu item, all the icons under the tabs, it looks like I can't even delete a repo within Sourcetree now. Just terrible UI design.

[Toastie]

I can only agree with this. The missing project overview panel is a great step back in usability.

Me and my co-workers are working with 15+ projects. The project names are all beginning with the same prefix. When I need to find a special one, there is no way to distinguish them in the tab bar as the names are not fully displayed with so many projects open. So finding the right project often means to check multiple tabs to find the right project.

How could anyone think, the project panel is not needed anymore???? And if someone thinks so, why isn't there a way to turn it on or off???

Just a REALLY BAD design idea. Try to switch back to a previous version now. Currently using version 2.0.19.1.

[Blair Davies]

Agreed with the use case and agree with Adrian Green.

Pros:  New repo listing is actually usable.  Drag and drop import of local repos to sourcetree is huge (random drag and drop of the old bookmark list would cause entire folders to vanish from the app).  Searching/filtering is great

Cons:  No "dashboard" to see statuses of local repositories.  Those of us with literally hundreds of repos (enterprise microservices...) are not well suited to the + button.  Tabs do not show enough information - which repo am I on?  What is it's name, address, folder path, breadcrumb, etc?  

Big con for me:  Custom actions are harder to use.  I use custom actions to merge releases to master and develop (gitflow) in one click, launch visual studio solutions in one click, etc.  Custom actions aren't available except by right click, and not by right clicking the branch. Right clicking the history view is unintuitive.

[adriangreen]

Agreed this new UI is un-usable. I have bookmarked hundreds of repos into a folder structure that allows me to quickly locate what I need.

Now, for each and every repo I need to visit, I have to click "+", then click on a folder (or search "All Repos"), open the repo (If I actually managed to find it). Then click "+", then click on a folder (or search "All Repos"), open the repo (If I actually managed to find it). Then click "+", then click on a folder (or search "All Repos"), open the repo (If I actually managed to find it)....

At least in the old system - everything could be made visible. The status of each repo was clear. I could open 10 repos in a matter of seconds!

I LOVE that the bookmarks are now filterable - a totally awesome feature that should have been there all along. However this new bookmark system is just torturous. Cruel and unusual punishment. I've got work to do, not click around all day looking for things.

Please reconsider this 'improvement'. (but KEEP the filtering!).