SourceTree for Linux

[danilo2]

Hi!

Do you plan to release SourceTree for Linux?

[chhabs · Accepted solution]

Hi Everyone, 

Thanks for the support and interest in a Linux client. Unfortunately, we do not have any plans to build SourceTree for Linux. 

Best,

Rahul

[timbaileyjones]

Think long and hard before deleting this thread.  Scrubbing this forum of evidence of so many ardent requests over a such a long period for something as straightforward and obvious as a Linux version of SourceTree WILL BE WIDELY derided in the developer world.

Historically, this dismissal of Linux developers is exactly why so many of us distrust Microsoft, Adobe and other closed-source shops. although they must be given credit for changing their tune recently in creating 100% open source apps like VSCode, and Brackets.   This occasion would be a great opportunity for Atlassian to follow suit.  And keep in mind, most of the upvotes here are merely asking for a Linux port, not for SourceTree source code to actually be publicly released.

[MathMax]

How come this was accepted as an answer?

Are you trolling Mr Rahul Chhabria? Is there a moderator on this site?

[Nate Gardner]

I will never use an Atlassian product again. Deleting this thread without even preserving an archive shows how little Atlassian cares about its users. The overwhelming desire of Atlassian's users to have SourceTree on Linux has been completely disregarded, and it shows just how out of touch your company is. 

[G Hu]

I would suggest you contact the CEO's of Atlassian. Google for: Atlassian contact the CEO

I tried it, and got pretty much the same response from the same person who posted above (Rahul, product manager for SourceTree), so at least Rahul got the message I sent... I don't know if the CEO(s) actually received my comment, but if enough people 'Contact the CEO' perhaps the message will be heard.

I will repeat that this is a very strange position for Atlassian to take. Perhaps they are afraid of the competition from the likes of gitk, gitg, GitEye, giggle or Git Cola... All are free git gui's.

In fact, maybe one or more of those will replace SourceTree on the other platforms as well. I myself have certainly lost that loving feeling for Atlassian.

[Chris Myers]

To be honest, I'm not surprised; every single issue that I've upvoted or watched has had the same basic reaction from Atlassian, no matter how simple it is to implement, or how many upvotes it has, or what the potential ramifications of the issue are.

While I love Atlassian products, they really do seem to do whatever they want, regardless of what the customer asks for. Which is rather a bit backwards IMO.

Some examples are:

Usability enhancement:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-3406
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-3406

Internet standard functionality bug:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-9380
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-9380

Enhancement request:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-5002
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-5002

Major Security issue (potential for FERPA violations, etc.):
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-3893
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-3893

Regression bug:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-37294
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-37294

Interoperability bug:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-36960
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-36960

[Scott Saccone]

Hope you reconsider, Linux client would be very useful. It's really the only relevant platform for me.

[Kai]

So, Atlassian Answers was moved to Atlassian Community. Still, this thread is not deleted. Does that mean it stays? 

[Michael Caven]

I really loved using SourceTree when I was developing on a Windows machine. But recently I had to switch to Ubuntu, which I really like, but the main tool I miss is a really good Git gui. So I was a bit surprised when I found out that SourceTree is not available on Linux :(

[Neile Havens]

Looks like the feature request is in JIRA for SourceTree for Mac. Maybe if we all add our vote there, we'll get some attention.

SRCTREE-2991

[Owl City]

Seriously? Delete this conversation? LOL.

[Lourens JanseVanRensburg]

If not Linux, how about a platform-independent browser-based client then?  Please?

[James Rogers]

Gitkraken.

It's better.  No, really.  It's better.

[metaherobrine1]

You know what James.  I may have to agree with you.  I was looking for a good way to store code with a small team who weren't that versed in Git.  I just downloaded GitKraken and I think the UI is so much easier to use than SourceTree.

[Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]]

Is there some kind of dislike button?

For all of you searching a good client for linux, use GitKraken instead.

No a Donald Trump quote:

sad!

[Sergey Podobry _Stellarity Software_]

What about opensourcing SourceTree to let the community make a linux version?

[tobias_schaber]

are you kidding? still no support for linux planned? this is absolutely paltry.

[Deleted user]

+1 for Linux. I really can't accept this answer as an answer.

[r-laporte]

Seriously no Linux version planned? As many other teams, we use all 3 main OS here, we need tools that work on all of them. Learn from VSCode or Gitkraken, they do it right. Uninstalling :(

[Andras Soltesz]

"Seriously no Linux version planned? As many other teams, we use all 3 main OS here, we need tools that work on all of them. Learn from VSCode or Gitkraken, they do it right.'

Yep, quite unbelievable, in 2018. 

Especially, from a company that makes money from running Java server applications on Linux servers. If anything, basic decency dictates to release your Git client for Linux.

[Georgi Kirilov]

Would love to see SourceTree on Linux.
Please make it happen.

Thanks

[Jean Cabral]

Sourcetree for Linux? Who cares? Try Gitkraken and be happy!

[Deleted user]

It was a great time with SourceTree on Mac OS X, but macOS get's worse with every release since Steve is dead. I switched to Linux (first elementary OS and now NixOS) some years ago, also at work. I would love to be able to use SourceTree on Linux, but this 5 years old issue shows that Atlassian don't cares about the wishes of it's customers and i will not use their software again.

Now i use the integrated git UI in Atom editor for commits and terminal for more complex tasks.

I will delete my account here after this post.

[Ben]

Off course we need  Sourcetree in Linux.

+1  for Source tree in Linux.

Why there is source tree for Windows and not for Linux?

I think most developers use Linux OS compared to Windows.

[Ali Akdurak]

Never lose hope :) I am still waiting for the port.

[Marcelo Rodovalho]

Don't bring your application for Linux, we really don't need it.
GitKraken is powerfull, beautifull enough!

[epicAvenger]

Yeah I guess they don't want to compete with GitKraken. I would, just to help bring in startups and new users with Linux backgrounds/workflows. I'd write it all in electron too make it simple to drop a Linux release, but then I think that's exactly what GitKraken did. 

[Joseph Day]

We adopted JIRA, bitbucket, Confluence, etc. I am leading the way to dumping Windows. In my opinion, Mac is an expensive and tedious system. We don't use the old collaboration tools much anymore like MS Office. It was a last desperate move for Office to go online, but they've sealed their fate. Bye bye.

Expect the linux share to grow. Atlassian will be enabling the flight from Windows. Where will those users go? Linux beats Mac among professional developers on Stack Overflow. They are your market too.

"Windows Desktop was the most commonly used platform by developers, followed by Linux Desktop." --- Platforms, Stack Overflow 2017

[Charles Robertson]

Is it possible to use SourceTree with Mono or Wine, on Ubuntu 18+? I have had to use Linux for the first time at my new job and I have managed to use Navicat for MySQL with Wine, and Telerik's Fiddler with the Mono framework. Maybe someone who understands these technologies could port the Window's version of SourceTree?

[Mozza912]

I got to admit this is making a joke of Linux, git was invented to add version control to Linux kernel. I don't understand why developers do this, i would pay twice the price to have stuff on Linux and they still do not do it!

MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[rexmtorres]

James Barwick  I want to kiss you for introducing me to GitKraken!

[Ícaro Erasmo Barreiro]

isn't it time for us to make our own opensource git client? It think we should plan and make it happen because all available git clients for linux aren't so good as source tree or gitkraken.

[Matt Kernes]

It's been time for a long time. We could have done this long ago, honestly. And my guess is that when we start doing this, we'll find there's fewer and fewer reasons to need Atlassian.

[Marcelo Rodovalho]

Atlassian doesn't understand and doesn't care about their customers.

[AndrasS]

You will have to revise your decision of not supporting SourceTree on Linux.

In the 2019 StackOverflow Developer survey, Linux is now measured to be used as the developer's primary operating system in equal share  as MacOS  (~25% both).

See the survey:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019?utm_content=launch-post&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dev-survey-2019#technology-_-developers-primary-operating-systems

Given that the most loved technology is Linux among developers (see the survey) - by a large margin -  this share will only grow further.

You are already late with your product development, these trends didn't start yesterday.

[Otto Otto]

Well an interesting thread which have convinced me to stop using SourceTree

[Bishoy Mushraky]

Another reason for why Atlassian strategies sucks. How come no Linux client? Evil Microsoft provides linux clients for their tools like VSCODE.

I'm uninstalling sourcetree from my macbook as well since im not able to install it on my linux laptop

[Petr_Stepanov]

That's ridiculous. Linux Torvalds invented Git and you guys don't support Linux. Just created my account to post this. Now deleting.

[CALEB AMOLO]

you people gotta be kidding us.Of all systems,you go type there with a straight face and give the Linux community  the middle finger..like y'all don't learn from history.You can't shun Linux and prosper.those are mutually exclusive events right there.That said,I'm loving Gitkraken,and I hate monopoly,so,peace...

[Bamboy]

What the hell? Of all the programs to not be available on Linux, I least suspected my favorite source control tool.

I'm jumping ship from Microsoft since Windows 7 support is ending soon, and Windows 10 is one of the worst OS I've ever used.

A damn shame, really.

[Denis Tunović]

I'm moving to Linux. Please make SourceTree available for Linux.

[Louis van Senden]

+1

[Pavel O_]

We need a Linux git client for Ubuntu.

[paulo.barbeiro]

How embarrassing is this answer?

Reason one: Git it self was develop to support Linux kernel development.

Reason Two: It is 2020!! =/

[Mike Eggleston]

This is beyond embarrassing. Developing on Linux has become easier and easier; and the excuse of "it is too hard" or "there are too many distros" are just obsolete. They can make an AppImage (https://appimage.org/) and it will work for all distros!

[Paul Mansfield]

I've been using linux on the desktop for way over 10 years, and it's trivial to get it running on most laptops, these days so I agree that if Atlassian want to be taken seriously, they need to do this. Also, with the increasing lock down of apple products, there will be an increased flow of refugees from MacOs to linux.

[Camilo Chico]

We are already in 2022 and they still don't take linux seriously. :(

[Martin Joehren]

+1 for a linux client

[lapo]

…hoping it would work under FreeBSD too. (it can run Linux binaries)

[ÕIS Admin]

So Atlassian - seems that open source community waits :)

Some of us:

And some others:

[MarcoM]

I'm the second one vk... u.u

[Miroslav Petrovic]

:D

[Francisco]

Yes, UBUNTU Linux please!

[Samuel Ventura]

+1

[zhifeng hu]

+1  please

[rafambbr]

+1 Ubuntu Linux

[Ravaelles]

+1 Ubuntu

[Nate Gardner]

What a company. Look how many users this "agile" company is completely ignoring!

[Michael Witten]

2013-2017 and still no Linux client with so many users asking. Why??? Just opensource it and let the community do it for you!

[Lance Kuttner]

+1 Ubuntu

[Borzi75]

+1

[marcus_schultheiss]

+1

[Ed Sinek]

+1 - and remember to UPVOTE the JIRA ticket to create a Linux client:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-2991

[sovas]

+1 Ubuntu

[akilamk]

+1 ubuntu

[Jedve]

+1

[Lourens JanseVanRensburg]

+1 yes please

[edoardo]

+1 it would be VERY appreciated.
I suggest you to eventually investigate in professional support on .NET platform porting on *NIX platforms (if, as I think, it's your case).

[PheRum]

+1 Ubuntu

[Jason Foley]

Tools like Unreel Engine 4 compile and run on Linux. It'd be nice to have a good Git GUI on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I would pick Sourcetree, but I guess I'll do Gitkraken. Gitkraken runs on all of those platforms.

Linux has been my primary OS since Microsoft wants to take too much control with Windows 10. Even so, I still have VSCode, MonoDevlop, clang, Blender, Audacity, and gcc.

There's no reason not to build for Linux. Do you really want to use a mac when it can give you root without a password?

[Vladimir]

+1 for linux

[Umar Abduvali]

+1 to any linux distro, the rest, the Community will manage to port to others, I think. Or at least make it usable with WINE please.

P.S. You see the label "I'M NEW HERE" ? I sign up here only for encouraging SourceTree developers to develop linux version. I believe "NEW ONES HERE" above did the same thing. 

[Юрий Воронин]

+1

[keisuke169]

1

[Fabio de Matos]

+1

[Michael Kriegel]

+1 for linux, too.

A friend recommended me that tool, but as it's not available for linux I just won't use it.

Makes me thinking: Are the atlassian hosted BitBucket and Jira instances so damn slow because I live between the mountains or is it because they host them on Windows Servers? Maybe I should search for a new shore on that topic as well.

[Matt Kernes]

OS isn't the issue. They're slow because they're bloated. Open your network panel in the dev tools and check out how much it's downloading before and after rendering, as well as how many external calls are made.

Customers notice every 10ms of time spent churning a page. Slow rendering is actually more harmful to a UX than slow response time.

[Volodymyr Salo]

+1 for linux client.

[milioni]

+1 for linux client

[romeo_kamgo@yahoo.com]

+1 for linux client

[simon_barq]

+1 for linux client

[cali-armut]

+1 for linux client

[Andrew Logvinov]

+ for linux client

[Denis Tunović]

+1 for Ubuntu

[Tahir Aziz]

+1 for Ubuntu

[Wenyin_Wei]

+1 for Ubuntu

[philipkraft]

+1

[adimaria]

+1

[XaeroDegreaz]

[Andrew Shvets]

You sir, have hit the nail on the head :) .

[Ed Sinek]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-2991

Login and upvote!

[Jaspinder Virdee]

@Rahul Chhabria Please think about it again.

[Rahul Chhabria]

Thanks for the note. My apologies though, I don't work at Atlassian anymore. Please reach out @bgannin for more information about this topic. 

[RAUL SAEZ]

+1 for Linux version.

Remember that exist Git thanks to Linus Torvalds and their team.

I too will donate for that.

[Karthik T]

Yup, was surprised, that possibly the best GUI for git is not present on the platform that is (was) git's raison d'etre. thats some industrial grade irony there..

[echofalse]

Haha ! this will be the biggest joke of this century!!!

[Chuck Ludwigsen]

[Alexander Trauzzi]

+10000000 for Linux version.

[Martin Hynar]

I give my vote for Linux version too. I saw ST at my colleagues using Macs and I have to admit that it is brilliant piece of software

[Gary Cartagena]

Mac vs Linux... isnt that almost a UI based port? I mean Mac is primarily Linux under the hood right?

[Matt Kernes]

I think Mac is FreeBSD, not Linux. But they're very close.

There's definitely more than just a UI port, but that isn't the reason this isn't happening. Atlassian isn't going to do it. They could have done it 6 years ago if they wanted to. They hinted at it, then abandoned the idea.

Also, we (as developers) could have just made a solid Linux version of it by now if we just tried and open sourced it. If we made it in Electron (or similar), we could make it cross platform with an entire community maintaining it and leaving the Atlassian anti-developer attitude in the past.

[francescojo]

@Gary Cartagena Well, they are 'SIMILAR' under the hood, but both two are different. As @Matt Kernes said, FreeBSD is UNIX(or, UNIX-like system), not Linux.

[Tim Bailey-Jones]

Mac's kernel is called Darwin, and it has borrowed heavily from the BSD family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

The core libraries behind Mac's and Linux's GUIs have absolutely no overlap at all, although there are cross-platform libraries that abstract this away.

Anyway, Mac and Linux are similar so far as they both have very rich, well-featured command lines in which to get real work done, and they don't suck down every little virus that comes along. 

Given that Linus Torvalds (author of Linux) wrote GIT, it is astounding that Atlassian thinks it's okay to ignore Linux as a target platform for SourceTree.  That is more tone-deaf than any politician has ever been.  #knowYourRoots

[Matt Kernes]

I'm fully convinced that Atlassian doesn't care about developers at all. They only care that they're on top of the mountain of cash that they wouldn't have without developers. They're very short sided.

Atlassian is also sitting on a mountain of requests from the community for simple things like managing session timeouts and adding a way to highlight text in Confluence; something that all WYSIWYG have.

The trivial stuff Atlassian ignores makes me truly believe that they only care about 3rd party affiliates selling plug-ins and features Atlassian won't make (or remove from existing functionality).

The sole of this company is gone.

[Deleted user]

+1 for a Linux version. Linux is still lagging a comprehensive git gui bare "smart git". No Tortoise Git for Linux eighter (the Linux fork is in early alpha stages). A port to Linux would be awesome, even if we have to wait a bit =)

[Chris]

Agreed.  I used to like Smart Git, but after using SourceTree, I have to admit it's just not as good.

[bhrt]

For private use gitkraken is worth to try.

[Henry Tseng]

+1 for Linux.

[Niels Stargardt]

+1 for a Linux-Client or at least a description how to make it run on Mono.

[KieranA]

We've not attempted to make it work under Mono, but as far as I'm aware Mono doesn't support running applications written in some of the frameworks we use.

[Niels Stargardt]

That's a pitty. Why you have choose c# if you only wan't to run it unter windows?

Anyways does this mean a Linux version has no chance?

[KieranA]

We don't want to run SourceTree to only be on Windows. SourceTree is for both the Mac and Windows (and for the last few years has been a Mac-only application). The Mac and Windows development streams are different. The Mac version is written in Objective-C and the Windows version in C#. We targeted the platforms specifically for the best possible experience by leveraging the platform-specific features.

We don't have any immediate plans for Linux, but that could change, just as it did for Windows. Right now we're focussing on making the Mac and Windows versions better.

[Mark Gillespie]

Although the Windows version seems to have stalled, no updates in months, and no mention of why the delays, and some nasty bugs and performance problems hanging around.

[sirenum]

[askarby]

Here's my input:

• I want SourceTree on Linux (so does everyone else in this thread)

Solution:

• Start a KickStarter / IndieGoGo campaign, and you'll have the funding / resources to implement it (this thread would at least imply that it would be the case).

[Deleted user]

+1 for this solution

[Calvin Evans]

+1

[Katharina Sabel]

But that would imply that Atlassian doesn't have Apples dick in their mouth -_-

[Chris Myers]

Incredibly unprofessional, offensive comment there :(

[jarrodchesney]

I’m offended because she implied Apple was bad, not by the language, i’ve heard bad words in the past. She just has Apple Envy - maybe she has to use a PC ;-)

[rguimaraens]

Great solution, even past almost 2 years.

[Andy Ruddock]

I'm offended because everybody knows it's "Apple's" not "Apples"

[danilo2]

Why didnt you choose the Java / Qt libraries (C++ / Python) / C# with mono ready libraries / Web application bundled with for example chrome? You would have 1 codebase and crossplatform product ...

[KieranA]

This was all taken into consideration when we discussed how we were going to go about it. The end decision was to target the platform using libraries/languages specifically for that platform. My comment on this thread answers this already.

[saml]

For a full cross-platform framework, I would rather recommend having a look at Lazarus RAD IDE / platform. It works flawlessly on Windows / Mac / Linux, with a native experience. It recently came out as 1.0, and is one of the most underrated open source frameworks out there!

[Andrew Shelestov]

Lazarus? Are you serious? It's Pascal!

[saml]

I told you, it is underrated! :P

[Andrew Shelestov]

You see, big things rarely happen accidentally.

So, if this framework is less popular than Qt/GTK/WxWidgets/etc -- it does not mean it's bad. But it definitely means, that programmers prefer Qt/GTK/WxWidgets/... for some reason.

Probably, first reason is C/C++. C is the language of kernel and system programming, C++ is the language for networking and game development. You see -- a lot of people can use those frameworks, with their experience, without learning Pascal.

Second one is probably big amount of code samples, QA, handbooks and documentation.

[saml]

That is undoubtely true!

At the same time, taken into account, the immense hurdle that cross-platform develoment is, for most modern frameworks, Lazarus seems to takes away a lot of those hurldes by the way it works great out of the box on all the main platforms.

Indeed, it comes with other hurdles, in the form of lacking availibility of up-to-speed developers and libraries. The question is which hurdle is the hardest to overcome.

[jarrodchesney]

Every time i see this i think the following. Who ever was in the discussion to go .NET and have two code bases to be a close to bare metal as possible ---- is an idiot.

Perhaps they also copy and paste code within the same code base instead of refactoring out common reusable base classes too, because it's that kind of mentality.

[Ron Elliott]

This is still off topic from this post but this method is rather typical. Core code gets implemented in c/c++ and the UI in the native language / UI framework. Its actually easier to manage

[Bogdan Hlevca]

It is typical for people who do not plan to support multiple platforms. There are enough good cross-platform UI frameorks that would make maintenence on multiple OSes possible. It is obvious that this project did not have this as a priority form start. And NO this is not off topic, it is about why Linux does not have a port.

[gouravnema]

Guys if you  are  not having enough bandwidth make it opensource. Hope you guys are good people and not like money scavengers. A lot of people around the globe are ready to contribute. 

Let it be linux packaging or further enhancement of product

[greensn0w]

This post deserves upvotes from everyone who visited this forum !

[Chris Myers]

Personally, I don't know how anyone could say that Atlassian is (are) money scavengers. For one, they give their products away FOR FREE to ANY open-source development team. Second, they give their products away FOR FREE to educational institutions for use within the classroom (and discounted licenses for educational institutions for use by departments.) Third, they spend their internal resources create awesome products like SourceTree and give it away FOR FREE too. I'm sure I could keep going, but you get the point. I understand that there is frustration that it's not been ported to Linux yet. Believe me, I understand it every day when I log into my Linux laptop and don't have the functionality. But, I support Atlassian and their willingness to be so giving to the community. When they say that there is something blocking their development of a Linux version, but can't go into more details at this time, I accept that. It doesn't mean that I don't hope that they're able to resolve whatever is blocking the Linux port of the software, because I do. But suggesting that they're being money-grubbing folks is both unsubstantiated and counterproductive :/

[James Rogers]

The purpose of SourceTree (IMHO) is to pull Stash or Bitbucket to your desktop. When using SourceTree together with a supported Git server, and integrate that Git server into an issue management system, you have something extremely powerful. As we see with many many tools which are extensions of "the real product", those extensions are free. So, I feel SourceTree is and extension of Stash, and free makes sense. What you do is pay for Stash, and you get the desktop tool. Any OpenSource project that would take responsibility for SourceTree to run on Linux would need to make sure that the objective of the project remain to extend the functionality of Stash and Bitbucket. SourceTree is NOT a "Git Client". It is a "Bitbucket or Stash Client" (Ok, GitHub, too).... And if Atlassian gave responsibility of this objective to a third party group (a large open source community), they would probably lose control of the objective. There are many great Git Client's for Linux. But, Atlassian needs to know how many Linux users actually need a Stash and Bitbucket (or GitHub) Client. If it's too small a percentage, then we would have to ask ourselves how much money Atlassian (or any company) would be willing to spend on a product that would not return more real revenue (Stash or Bitbucket server licenses). I really wish Atlassian could find it in their heart to spend the money to make a Linux SourceTree. Although, I would understand completely if they felt there was no business requirement to do so.

[Chris Myers]

I don't necessarily believe that it's a money-related issue. I spoke with Atlassian about this thread back a couple of weeks ago (see my comment on March 12,) and they said that they were very aware of the need for a Linux SourceTree client, but that there were some things that were blocking their ability to develop the client for the time being, but that they couldn't go into details. I could be wrong, but that, to me, means something besides money.

[Deleted user]

Sourcetree *is* a git client. we use it with Gitlab and you can use any git remote like a root server over ssh!

[caolanod]

Linux please!

[James Mark Chan]

How was gitkraken able to do a Linux client but atlassian ran I to a blocking issue? This sounds silly.

[Nazia Tarannum]

and me waiting..

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[Onno Lissenberg]

+1 for picture (and Linux client)

[amtriorix]

Do not waste Your time anymore to ask a LINUX version and move on to alternatives. This company created a good GIT client but they can not make it FAST, netiher they can develop .NET applications in MONO to make it compatable with Linux. One of the most used platforms for development is linux, we all known this. If they do not want to create a linux version after so many request, if they are not able top port it to MONO libraries, it says enough about their skills. Move on, it is waste of time with that company.

[Artur Krysiak]

You know, if you follow this thread, you've saw thay they consider to provide us linux client. I suppose it's matter of time and allocating people. I don't know why, they don't use mono compatible libaries, but I'm sure, if they would consider to make from source tree a git hub project, the linux client will appear more quickly :)

[KieranA]

We developed SourceTree native to Mac and native to Windows (they're two separate development streams) so we can leverage OS-specific features and keep it closer to the metal. In this respect, there'd be no need for us to use a cross-platform library if we were to develop a *nix version, we'd likely go native.

As always, lots of interest but we're very much focussing on Mac and Windows for the moment, that takes up the majority of our time.

(n.b. you can't run SourceTree under Mono as we use WPF, this has been regularly pointed out to us but it's a limitation. Perhaps Mono will allow support for WPF in the future, at which point it could run on *nix)

Cheers

[kjellski]

Too bad this is not open source, I would totally hack on this in my spare time...

[Alexander Trauzzi]

Kieran, I don't see why Atlassian doesn't allocate more resources to your team then! This "no we can't" attitude seems defeatist.

If something is showing this much demand and is creating this much interest in the company's brand, it would be to your benefit. Ten pages (and I'm sure more) of people showing interest consistently over the span of several years. Is it not Atlassian's failure to actually make a release at this point?

A user friendly and powerful git client like sourcetree is badly needed in the Linux space. I'm sure there are countless people using bitbucket and for-pay Atlassian services who use Linux.

[Ami Geva]

I totaly agree with Amos Triorix and moved to the next best thing on linux: SmartGIT. After using it for the past few months I can safely say that it has as much as SourceTree and more.

[Fab Pel]

@Kieran Senior [Atlassian] if you want to go native on *nix, you'll end up using cross-platform toolkits anyway, since on *nix you'll use GTK or Qt or WxWidgets (or others) :P...

[arundevma]

I am a Windows/Mac User..... But +1 for Linux version as many of my collegues really needs it.

[Katharina Sabel]

I know this is an old question and Atlassian has responded to it before but I just want to add my name to the list of people who would really like to see Source tree on Linux.

I'm a FOSS, security software and games developer, working exclusively on Linux and I would KILL for sourcetree on Linux. Write it in C++ with QT5 or GTK+ and you don't even have to worry about not being native enough.

To make it even sweeter: if you make Source tree on Linux happen I will personally fly to your office and bake you a cake of the flavour of your choosing. Think about it...

[shivanshu]

[pclay]

+1000 for linux SourceTree PLEASE!!!!

[Chilion]

I will donate enough to get a big team of devs working on it. How much you need?

[James Rogers]

a project as big as SourceTree? Probably in the $250-$300K range.

[James Rogers]

Note, that's not a lot. That's paying only average salaries to 10 folks for less than 5 months.

[Tobias Hoffmann]

Hey I have an idea! What about a sourcetree version for Linux?

[Jonas Andersson]

Dumbest thing i ever read.. 

[Adam Wilmore]

Hey Atlassian, what is the sense now for porting SourceTree to linux, given the response here so far? I'm a paying SmartGit customer and would happily do the same for SourceTree on linux.

[stevestreeting]

The demand has been proven, now it's mostly a question of resourcing really - we've seen a huge influx of users since the Windows port was launched and there's a question of when/if/how we can tackle another port. We'll certainly be discussing it but I can't make any promises at this stage.

[Deleted user]

What is the status? A lot of time has gone since you wrote that. I am about to switch from Mac to elementary OS and one thing what is missing is your good software! please provide a linux build and ubuntu package! if it is also free software, i would give you a lot of money. so everyone can, share, improve and hack on it. you can also sell GPL licensed software! https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

[Amit Bidkar]

+99 for linux 

[Shtykov Pavel]

+100500

[James Rogers]

Guys,

This question/feature request went on for years before Atlassian tried to terminate it.

Let's all just use Gitkraken.

It's better.  No, really.  It's better.

I've used both and I was originally one that wanted SourceTree.  I used SourceTree for years.

Now, all we need to do it get Bitbucket configured with a button for "Clone with Gitkraken" rather than the existing "Clone with SourceTree". 

[AndrasS]

Until Atlassian decides releasing SourceTree for Linux:

IntelliJ IDEA is now a fairly good Git client for Linux.

One can use the Community Edition freely.

I use it mostly standalone and use Git Gui when hunk-level precision is needed for commit editing.

[edoardo]

Hi, I am using Gitkraken and I must say it's phenomenal.

I truly suggest you to try it out, it's a beautiful and useful alternative to Sourcetree on Linux systems (and Windows, and Mac).

Cheers

[Andrei Toderean Dascalu]

4 years later (and about 5 overall since people have started pressing Atlassian for SourceTree on Linux) seems that the good people of Atlassian are still shunning the most popular web development platform, but fortunately we have some alternatives that are better than SourceTree overall (more if you don't need better):

- ungit not necessarily the best function-wise but I love the graphical representation of branches, makes any flow crystal clear

- GitKraken no idea how I've missed this until now, much more friendly, easier to use and gorgeous

- cycligent great for functionality, not as friendly though

IntelliJ and their *Storm IDEs include a pretty ok git client as well

[AndrasS]

@A Dascal

I also use IntelliJ as my main Git client on Linux, I can use it for ~80-90%-of the time (for all of the simple operations).

For the rest (like commit splitting per hunk), I just use git-gui.  Git-gui is ugly as hell but gets the job done.

[echofalse]

LOL！！

[James Rogers]

Gitkraken

[carlitos.melgar@izote.net]

+1

[Tessier]

+1
just about gitkraken, you can read this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/59j0yq/gitkraken_is_no_longer_free_freak_out_or_dont/
you may stay with sourcetree.

Now stuck with a mac so I use sourcetree but with linux gitcola and command line are perfect.

[John Sambrook]

What's the justification for not doing a port to Linux?

It's disappointing that you don't have a good answer for Linux. 

[Jonathan BAILLEUL]

Linux is the only platform worth developing for. Period.

[John Sambrook]

When I discovered that SourceTree was not ported to Linux, I decided to download Git Kraken for Linux. It works like a dream and seems much nicer.

At my client's company, we are going to abandon plans to use Source Tree for the consistency of Git Kraken on all platforms.

[josefnorlin]

Same here! GitKraken all the way.

[francescojo]

For me I was a huge fan of SourceTree, however I intensively developing apps on linux more than 4 years and there're few decent Git GUIs on linux compared to SourceTree. At least, I was thinking like that until quite recently.

Although the commercial licence price is not cheap, nevertheless, even on linux there's definitely a killer Git GUI client: Git Kraken. The app is free for personal use(obviously they're expecting a lock-in effect), so developer folks, let's abandon our desparate hope and let's live in a Git Kraken world.

[Muhammad Mohsen (Mo7sin)]

GitKraken looks great! Downloading it now!!

[Jeff White]

The irony of a git client not made available on Linux is, to me, overshadowed by the irony of so many Linux users who don't insist on using git cli. 

If the lack of SourceTree on Linux makes even one developer learn how to use the terminal, then I'm happy Atlassian never made it.

Level up, people.

[Matt Kernes]

I feel the same way about most GIT usability. For nearly all functions of git, I use CLI now. It's honestly easier in many cases.

But there are times when a decent GUI is just better. For example, when you want to view the graph is an easily filtered way, or if you want to do quick inspections for cherry picking. Though, in theory, if you're following GIT Flow and proper code cycle patterns, you shouldn't need to do that often at all.

I use a GIT GUI in my IDE for the super quick stuff like if I need to rebase from a commit I see in the log, or if I want to branch from another commit. But even that is pretty seldom. But in nearly all cases, I do commits, pushes, checkouts, etc from the CLI because it's just easier in many cases.

Though, I do have to say that I really like JetBrian's GIT commit/push GUI. Makes it really easy to step through all the changes and write up what changes were made so you don't forget anything in the commit message.

[Jeff White]

Those are great points.

Personally, I have an aversion to tools like VCS or FTP (remember Dreamweaver anyone?) embedded in the IDE. To me this is akin to putting a toilet in your kitchen. Yes, they're related, but probably bad things will happen if you put them so close together. You will enjoy the convenience for a long time and then disaster.

[Matt Kernes]

I agree. I did have plenty of issues with FTP being linked to "save" action in other IDEs. Rookie mistakes of linking a production site FTP before I used a VCS.

I haven't done anything like that in a long time. SVN was never easy to integrate into my IDEs before. I started using GIT with SourceTree back when I was a Windows user in 2012. But when I switched to Linux as my daily driver, I realized GIT CLI was really the best method. The terminal isn't very good at displaying certain things, but here is where GIT in the IDE really shines:

When want to solve conflicts, the JetBrians built-in merge tool is amazing because it's parsing the code as you go and making sure you don't make silly mistakes. I like to have that extra pair of eyes over my shoulder when doing conflict resolving.

[francescojo]

The irony of a git client not made available on Linux is, to me, overshadowed by the irony of so many Linux users who don't insist on using git cli. 

If the lack of SourceTree on Linux makes even one developer learn how to use the terminal, then I'm happy Atlassian never made it.

Level up, people.

Ouch.

I can assume what @Jeff White trying to say but it sounds snobbish. CLI tools are good in most cases especially in terms of automation, but SOMETIMES we need a nice GUI tools as well, I must say.

[Jeff White]

I can assume what @Jeff White trying to say but it sounds snobbish.

I'm sorry you feel that way. If you understand the value of CLI, then you're probably not my audience. If you understand that Linux users traditionally prefer to use the terminal over GUI tools for most programming tasks, then the irony is made clear, no assumptions needed.

This thread is requesting a git client for Linux, and that's not an unfair request. However, the arguments made in favor of it mostly tend to be bouts of helplessness, as though one's job is too hard to do without a GUI. That should be anathema to any developer who wants to excel at their craft. This is what I mean when I entreat my audience to level up.

I've managed multiple dev teams at once, and in that shop my devs all used git on command line. My two remote devs used SourceTree, and the only time I ever had severe merge conflict issues was with their commits. Why? Because they only learned how to use a GUI and didn't understand how git actually works, so they made noob mistakes. These were senior devs, by the way.

Command line can actually be easier. With a combination of bash and git aliases, you can do very powerful things with just a few keystrokes. @Matt Kernes pointed out some cases when a GUI is useful for him, and if you noticed we had an amiable exchange about it. I even liked his comments. 

I don't know you and I can't judge you, but conventional wisdom says only the guilty catch offense. If you're offended, I hope you can find a way to make peace with my opinions. Thank you for reading my thoughts.

[francescojo]

Well I'm not offending your opinion, and actually what you're saying are right I must admit. Even I'm saying that "Use Git Kraken or whatever blahblah", I actually train my junior developers hard on Git CLI first at least 3 to 6 months and let them use GUI tools.

[Jeff White]

@francescojo  Cheers, my friend.

[winterguard]

Thanks to those of you who recommended GitKraken. It really is excellent.

[Lourens Janse van Rensburg]

Just use EGit (in Eclipse) -- best git UI ever.

Even if you use Eclipse only for that, it's great!

[Carlos Eduardo]

Hello, I want to know where I can download the sourcetreeapp for LINUX since most part of all the developers around the world use it. 

[Mariano Sanz]

What about we draw a pentacle on the floor, sacrifice a goat, drink its blood and then we say the magic words: "Linux superesse oportet linux sit futurum, virtute ecce Linux". Would Atlassian reconsider porting the client?

[Mike Eggleston]

I used to use GitKraken as a replacement for SourceTree (since I use Linux at work; I user Arch, BTW); however they changed their model to screw over people who used it with local repositories, demanding $29 a year for that "privilege".

I really would hope that Atlassian would listen to the people and make SourceTree for Linux.

[Vitorio Cargnini]

@Mariano Sanz 

[OFF-TOPIC] Best comment ever.

So @Atlassian What are you waiting for? literally the aforementioned moment by Sanz? or simply do it. Our companies are already investing in Atlassian, for a while in great value over the year, from everyone in a 23 pages thread of requests. Just open a new Software Project on Jira, and get it done in no time. After all, I am missing some ROI here, especially when every paying customer is politely asking "Hey please", for now. Atlassian is the 'choice', again, for now, until something better shows up with the proper ROI.

[Jarn]

Just leaving a comment to make the thread alive

[ken_chiu]

I just started using linux (manjaro) this week, im really missing source tree

[Mike Eggleston]

Manjaro is an awesome distro (it is the one I use). Now if only Atlassian would listen to their users and make a Linux port of Sourcetree!

[hollowsaibot]

I use Linux in my personal computer and I miss SourceTree too on the Snap Store.
Please, rethink about it.

[Zykin_Dmitriy]

Nobody likes windows after 8.1 and even more after 10 and some of them, me for example, trying linux and we cannot find our favorite tool there. Terminal is not for us as you know.  We need sourcetree for linux so much... please... (a place for a touching photo with a nice kitty). Windows gonna die someday anyway and i hope linux community will proceed making linux more attractive for regular users.

[Ionut Cotoi]

I believe you should really reconsider supporting SourceTree on the Linux Desktop. 

Since 2013 Linux has come a long way and is getting more and more developers coming from Windows or Mac-OS.

[tiagocasemiro]

The most similar alternative to the source tree in linux is the Source App.

[funston_greg]

Due to Windows 10 issues I made the jump to Linux on all my personal computing devices. Linux is becoming more mainstream. I even like it better than Mac even if the Mac was free. 

My hope is more and more people start to make the jump to Linux and the number one reason is security. 

I think enterprises will start to use Linux and once one big enterprise signs up things will get better.  There other GUI tools besides Sourcetree as were posted. 

[Rand Williams]

Please port SourceTree to Linux

[Areopagitics]

Yes, please port it!

[tiagocasemiro]

The most similar alternative to the source tree in linux is the

https://github.com/tiagocasemiro/Source/releases/tag/v0.0.10-alpha

[chris neglia]

+1 Linux. I'd be willing to pay $50 for linux license, since you abandoned us maybe money will motivate you. Although we like 'free and open source', for all the money I've saved not buying microsoft or adobe products, I am more than able to send you 50/license for great software. Keep that in mind. This is not an idle threat. I *will* give you money, believe it.

[ÕIS Admin]

Yeah, I would also like to donate then - Flattr or other donation button would be great

[djhaskin987]

If you're willing to pay money, SmartGit is a great alternative and works on all platforms.

[James Rogers]

It's free for non-commercial use. Enjoy.

[djhaskin987]

But I want to use it*at work*

[Yannic Thier]

+1
When comparing to other nice-gui-git-tools, Source Tree is definetly one of the best and I'd like to use it on Linux, too!