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		nailer on March 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SourceTree is a free Mac client for Git, Mercurial... I've been using Sourcetree for around a year now. It's good, but I've had the following issues: - UI was very slow due to constantly polling the server - now fixed - Chokes on very large binary diffs (about a month ago - a whole bunch of static files were added to a repo, switching between branches becomes a pain). Tower was able to handle this fine. - It uses an embedded git binary, rather than a library. I don't trust apps that scrape command line tools, I expect at some point the tool will produce output that has not been anticipated.

SimonB86 on March 5, 2012 [–]

The use of the embedded Git binary is optional though; you can configure SourceTree to use the system installation of Git.

nailer on March 5, 2012 | [–]

I'd prefer it not to scrape stdout from a a git binary at all, but rather a use a real library with well defined interfaces.

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