With SourceTree for Windows, developers can access hosted services such as GitHub and Atlassian's BitBucket. Users can search commit histories, detect and resolve conflicts, and add in their own commands. Not only can developers use the client to commit, push, pull and merge their own changes to the mainline code base, but the software also offers the ability to bookmark parts of a repository. SourceTree offers more Git commands and functionality than the typical IDE module, Lionetti said.

Most IDEs (integrated developer environments) - including NetBeans, Microsoft Visual Studio, EMacs - now provide a way for developers to interact with Git directly from within the IDE itself, usually through a plug-in or module. Git itself offers only a command line interface, which can slow developers not used to working in such an environment. Git uses a distributed model, where a canonical copy of working code base, called the mainline, is kept on a hub, and individual developers can make copies of the code base on their own machines.

SourceTree also works with the Mercurial and Subversion DVCSes, though the current Windows release is labelled as beta until full Mercurial support is added within the next few months.įirst developed by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Git has increasingly found favor over the past few years, thanks to how effectively it manages large code bases that are worked on by geographically dispersed teams. Atlassian had found that approximately 70 percent of its users work on Microsoft Windows clients, so the port could help broaden Git's appeal even further, Lionetti said. SourceTree for Windows is a port from the company's SourceTree client for Apple Macintosh computers.

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