Where do Sourcetree repo avatars come from?

[cableraywire]

There is a "Refresh Avatars" option in the bookmarks window. I assume that would pull avatars from somewhere, like perhaps GitLab (which has project avatars). How exactly does Sourcetree determine those avatars, and can I customize them?

[bgannin]

Hi Garrett,

They are pulled from a remote service if it supports them. In the case of GitLab, we are looking for the "avatar_url" that's returned. If an icon isn't found in the cache, and doesn't return from the server, Sourcetree then looks for an in-repo icon that matches the following:

• name is "icon" or "logo"
• filetype is tiff, png, jpg, gif, or icns

Hope that helps.

Brian Ganninger
Senior Mac Developer, Sourcetree

[Dominick Sidiropoulos]

Has this feature been abandoned or does it work only in mac os?  I'm placing a logo.png icon in the root folder of a repo (haven't committed it though) and sourcetree doesn't employ it as an avatar. What gives?

[bgannin]

It's not currently supported by Windows but we do have it on the list.

[Bahman Engheta]

Hi @bgannin

My profile image from GitLab shows up correctly in the Preferences | Accounts list, but anywhere else in Sourcetree a generic geometric shape is displayed – see screenshot below. 

Any idea why? 

macOS 10.14.5
Sourcetree 3.1.2 (216)

[bgannin]

Hi @Bahman Engheta,

Commit icons are driven by Gravatar, not hosting service account avatars. Having this as a fallback when that's unavailable for any reason is a great request to file in our public trackers (Mac, Windows) for us to get it on the roadmap. Thanks for the feedback.

Brian Ganninger
Principal Developer, Sourcetree

[RunesReader]

Hello, @bgannin !

What size of this logo image should be?

[LucasLarson]

What size of this logo image should be?

The two repositories I happened to see this feature on had a 128 × 128 PNG in their root folder. One was `Icon.png`; the other `icon.png`.