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Azure DevOps vs SourceTree: What are the differences?
Developers describe Azure DevOps as "Services for teams to share code, track work, and ship software". Azure DevOps provides unlimited private Git hosting, cloud build for continuous integration, agile planning, and release management for continuous delivery to the cloud and on-premises. Includes broad IDE support. On the other hand, SourceTree is detailed as "A free Git GUI client for Windows and macOS". Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.
Azure DevOps belongs to "Project Management" category of the tech stack, while SourceTree can be primarily classified under "Source Code Management Desktop Apps".
Some of the features offered by Azure DevOps are:
- Agile Tools: kanban boards, backlogs, scrum boards
- Reporting: dashboards, widgets, Power BI
- Git: free private repositories, pull requests
On the other hand, SourceTree provides the following key features:
- Full-powered DVCS
- Create, clone, commit, push, pull, merge, and more are all just a click away.
- Review your outgoing and incoming changesets, cherry-pick between branches, patch handling, rebase, stash, shelve, and much more.
"Complete and powerful" is the top reason why over 11 developers like Azure DevOps, while over 199 developers mention "Visual history and branch view" as the leading cause for choosing SourceTree.
According to the StackShare community, SourceTree has a broader approval, being mentioned in 618 company stacks & 415 developers stacks; compared to Azure DevOps, which is listed in 79 company stacks and 68 developer stacks.
I explored many Git Desktop tools for the Mac and my final decision was to use Fork. What I love about for that it contains three features, I like about a Git Client tool.
It allows * to handle day to day git operations (least important for me as I am cli junkie) * it helps to investigate the history * most important of all, it has a repo manager which many other tools are missing.
Pros of Azure DevOps
- Complete and powerful49
- Huge extension ecosystem29
- Azure integration26
- One Stop Shop For Build server, Project Mgt, CDCI25
- Flexible and powerful25
- Everything I need. Simple and intuitive UI15
- Support Open Source13
- Integrations8
- GitHub Integration7
- One 4 all6
- Project Mgmt Features6
- Crap5
- Runs in the cloud5
- Cost free for Stakeholders5
- Agent On-Premise(Linux - Windows)3
- Aws integration2
- Jenkins Integration2
- GCP Integration1
Pros of SourceTree
- Visual history and branch view203
- Beautiful UI161
- Easy repository browsing134
- Gitflow support85
- Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines73
- Great branch visualization20
- Ui/ux and user-friendliness18
- Best Git Client UI/Features8
- Search commit messages7
- Available for Windows and macOS5
- Search file content1
- Log only one file1
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Cons of Azure DevOps
- Still dependant on C# for agents6
- Capacity across cross functional teams not visibile4
- Half Baked4
- Not a requirements management tool3
- Poor Jenkins integration3
- Many in devops disregard MS altogether3
- Jack of all trades, master of none3
Cons of SourceTree
- Crashes often10
- So many bugs8
- Fetching is slow sometimes6
- Very unstable4
- Can't select text in diff (windows)4
- No dark theme (Windows)3
- Extremely slow3
- Freezes quite frequently2
- Can't scale window from top corners2
- Doesn't differentiate submodules from parent repos2
- Requires bitbucket account2
- UI blinking2
- Diff makes tab indentation look like spaces2
- Windows and Mac versions are very different2
- Windows version worse than mac version2
- Diff appears as if space indented even if its tabs2
- Doesn't have an option for git init2
- Useless for merge conflict resolution2
- No reflog support1
- Installs to AppData folder (windows)1
- Bases binary check on filesize1
- Can't add remotes by right clicking remotes (windows)1
- Generally hard to like1