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What's an argument for switching from Sourcetree? I recently tried Git's own Mac client and was running back to Sourcetree within a few minutes...

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Do you really need one? Sourcetree is awful. Slow. Bloated. It even fails to dim non-available UI elements all over the place. Doesn't know how to use checkbox widgets correctly.

I love the 5-6 seconds of waiting for its UI to gradually, slooowly, update itself after you do virtually any operation, no matter how simple.

I guess I haven't had any UI issues with it as far as asset popping, although going through their "big update" and the related auth problems left it pretty much unusable for a full week.

It looks like it's a pretty common question :). I already answered on that question above.

For me SourceTree is slow and consumes a lot of memory. A good UI, but lean and fast would be a great improvement!

To compare SourceTree and Fork performance you can open a large repository (>10000 commits, like React) and try to check the initial commit.

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