Source tree locks up on large files

[Bruce Wobbe]

I have some dependency lock files that are quite large. 3Mb or greater. When I make a change to these files and they show up in source tree, source tree becomes unusable.  I believe it is trying to prepare the diff, but all I get on my Mac desktop is a spinning rainbow. I eventually have to force quite and submit via command line else I am unable to ever use source tree again.

Is there anyway to prevent this? 

[bgannin · Accepted solution]

You could reduce the text file size or ignore diffs with the lock file name pattern, both of which would disable the preview:

HTH,

Brian Ganninger
Senior Mac Developer, Sourcetree

[Bruce Wobbe]

Thanks, that worked, it would be nice to fix this so that it doesn't lock up the program

[Noah]

PS. SourceTree still locks up when there are large diffs. Kind of ridiculous in 2022.