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I installed it a couple weeks ago, and I would not recommend this yet. I have appreciated the frequent and easy update process during the beta. But, wow, still a long ways to go performance-wise. In the working copy view, where I spend the most time in ST, most clicks take seconds to respond. I'm optimistic it improves, I've been a fan of the Mac version for a while.

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Please could you give us some details about your circumstances & repo at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN ? I test with quite a few repos and your performance experience with the Win beta is unusual - viewing files in the working copy should usually average well under a second. Do you have very large diffs for example? Info about the repo you are testing with would be very useful, especially if it's public. The Mac version of ST went through a lot of tuning over the years so we'll probably have a bunch to do on Windows too, your assistance would be welcome :)

Steve Streeting, SourceTree dev @ Atlassian

Sure, I'll share my experience over there. The slowest part seems to be multiple file selects or working with multiple file selects (right click to add or remove from index) in the Working Copy changes and Staged Changes windows.

Some feedback for you since you probably wouldn't find out in other ways. I used the Mac version for a while comparing against the Github client. SourceTree then insists you register to continue use which isn't unreasonable. However registration wanted me to create an atlassian account of some sort that looked like a really crappy bug tracker (ie yet another username and yet another password on yet another site that I had no intention of using). So I gave up and kept using the Github client (and the command line mostly). I had expected registration to amount to a one off name and address kind of thing.

I had a similar problem until today when I saw in the release notes you can turn off the gravatar icons that appear in each of the commits.

Doing this I found that the entire interface was much more responsive.

thanks for the heads up, just turned it off

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