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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by mklim on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:13PM (#9813954)
Source Tree (https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) is great. Good visual layout of your diffs at any given point with the ability to stage/discard/unstage specific lines from within the program.
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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by malnourish on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @02:33PM (#9814112)
In my experience Source Tree is good but it happens to have noticeable slowdown and "jank" on both OS X and Windows after a while.

On OS X I've been using Tower to great effect. Unfortunately it's OS X only.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by jamesfmilne on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @04:22PM (#9814874)
I've found Tower to be very sluggish on a large repository on OS X, where as Source Tree keeps on trucking.

Our repo is 4GB and has about 1 million commits.

Source Tree is the only client on Mac I've found so far that doesn't completely grind to a halt on a repository of this size.

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Re:Sign up for a first look at GitHub Desktop by dogweather on Thursday July 02, 2015 @03:08PM (#9820939)
For me, Source Tree is very unusable and doesn't make any sense. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong?

It feels like there wasn't much thought about user stories and ux: every git operation was given a button or menu item. Sort of the MS Word phenomenon. Their screenshot on its home page is overwhelming, just like the design of their apps: a hundred items all vying for your attention.

In contrast, GitHub's app for Mac is immediately useful: it makes the 80/20 of git work easy.

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