I don't care if it's pretty that's not the issue (I actually really like the app icon everything else is…meh, but whatever). What I don't love about this app is the crummy GUI. Kaleidoscope is beautiful, but because it still can't ignore whitespace changes, it's basically useless.) (Oddly enough, despite all the apps competing in this space, I still find Apple FileMerge is the best one. As expected, you can configure it to use whatever external tools you want for diffing and conflict resolution. I generally review all my changes in there before doing commits it's a great way to ensure I didn't forget anything in my dev notes, and it helps me decide what the commit summary should focus on. If you *only* use Git, you might want to take a look at Tower, but I use Hg at work, so I needed something that could do both.įunctionally speaking, this works pretty well. SourceTree is pretty solid GUI for Mercurial & Git. Straight to the trash, and back to using Tower, until I find a reasonable substitute that won't charge me a subscription fee. I'm guessing it may be possible to connect to these other services (just as you can connect to GitLab repos from GitHub's own desktop app), but that is certainly not the way the app was meant to be used.Īll in all: pass.
MAC CLIENT FOR BITBUCKET WINDOWS
The 'native' feel of a MacOS app is certainly not there, windows look odd, navigation is clumsy and unintuitive.īut worse still: the app will only help you automatically connect to accounts in Bitbucket or GitHub - no GitLab, nor any of its other competitors.
MAC CLIENT FOR BITBUCKET FREE
Its arch-nemesis is GitLab: a service that offers unlimited, free private repositories to all - with just about every feature available in Bitbucket, and then some.īut once you get through your Bitbucket registration, you will be greeted by an interface which looks very much like a java app that has received some polish. Offering a meagre 1Gb of storage, Bitbucket is among the most expensive git repository hosts around, and therefore has never enjoyed wide adoption among small developers. This will set you up with an account with Bitbucket - and getting you signed up to Bitbucket is undoubtedly the main reason for Atlassian to make this app free. In order to use the app you are required to setup an account with Atlassian. If you spend a lot of time coding then it's worth trying several. But they each have their strengths and weaknesses. I have found SourceTree to be the best GIT GUI for me, at any price. And there's also a "copy commit hash" menu item, which is useful for starting an interactive rebase on the command line. Fortunately the contextual menu has a Copy command that does the job. The one bug I currently know about is that if one selects text from the commit info pane and types ctrl-C, it ignores the selection. It has occasional cosmetic bugs, and Atlassian can be slow to fix those. Overall I have found it to be quite robust. But occasionally I just want to say "use my local copy" or "use the remote version" and in that situation I find it difficult to know which is which. Its merge conflict support is just fine for working through a file line by line: you can use any 3-way merge tool, such as Apple's FileMerge. One weakness is resolving merge conflicts using "Theirs" or "Mine". SourceTree can also show the text of an annotated tag - and that is another thing that few, if any, other GIT GUIs can do.Īlso I find the history layout very efficient: a single window shows commits, uncommitted changes and the diff between any two commits (or your uncommitted changes and any commit). And it does this in a very natural way: the current state is a node, just like each commit. SourceTree is the only GUI I have found that can show the difference between uncommitted changes and any commit.
I have tried Tower, Fork, Sublime Merge, and several others. SourceTree continues to be my favorite GIT GUI, especially for viewing history and changes (which is my main use for a git GUI I use the command line for most other things).
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