Fork vs SourceTree vs Sublime Merge

Overview

SourceTree

Stacks10.6K

Followers8.1K

Votes727

Fork

Stacks197

Followers258

Votes126

Sublime Merge

Stacks119

Followers208

Votes57

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Detailed Comparison

SourceTree	Fork	Sublime Merge
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.	Manage your repositories without leaving the application. Organize the repositores into categories. Fork's Diff Viewer provides a clear view to spot the changes in your source code quickly.	A snappy UI, three-way merge tool, side-by-side diffs, syntax highlighting, and more. Evaluate for free – no account, tracking, or time limits.
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.;Use Git-flow and Hg-flow with ease. Keep your repositories cleaner and your development more efficient with SourceTree's intuitive interface to Git and Hg's 'branchy' development model.	-	-
Statistics
Stacks 10.6K	Stacks 197	Stacks 119
Followers 8.1K	Followers 258	Followers 208
Votes 727	Votes 126	Votes 57
Pros & Cons
Pros 205 Visual history and branch view 164 Beautiful UI 134 Easy repository browsing 87 Gitflow support 75 Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines Cons 12 Crashes often 8 So many bugs 7 Fetching is slow sometimes 5 No dark theme (Windows) 5 Extremely slow	Pros 19 One of the easiest and fastest git GUIs 14 Nice UX 13 Fast, Great support, Does-it-all, blazing fast 13 Does the job way better than others 11 Dark theme Cons 2 Poorly written license 1 Merges that require interactive user decision 1 Stability is fragile when looking deeply into history	Pros 12 Speed 6 Beautify UI 6 Hotkeys 5 Command Palete 4 Outputs matching git CLI command Cons 2 Only light mode available for evaluation
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GitHub Git Bitbucket Windows macOS Mercurial	Git	Git

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