SourceTree vs Sublime Merge vs Tower

Overview

SourceTree

Stacks10.6K

Followers8.1K

Votes727

Tower

Stacks214

Followers360

Votes80

Sublime Merge

Stacks119

Followers208

Votes57

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SourceTree	Tower	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.	Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.	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.	Clone & create repos with a click - Manage your GitHub, Bitbucket & Beanstalk accounts from within Tower;Open repos quickly - Tower's "Quick Open" dialog finds and opens repositories in no time;Automate the boring stuff - Fetching and stashing are automatically done for you, if you wish;Clone in the background- Downloading large projects happens in the background, while you work;Multiple windows - Have multiple projects open side-by-side	-
Statistics
Stacks 10.6K	Stacks 214	Stacks 119
Followers 8.1K	Followers 360	Followers 208
Votes 727	Votes 80	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 Very unstable	Pros 19 Git 16 Just works 10 Version control 6 Awesome 6 Simple layout Cons 5 Expensive 4 Subscription based 1 No side by side diff 0 Merge conflict resolution impossible/unclear	Pros 12 Speed 6 Hotkeys 6 Beautify UI 5 Command Palete 4 Three-Way Merge Cons 2 Only light mode available for evaluation
Integrations
GitHub Git Bitbucket Windows macOS Mercurial	Bitbucket TextMate Visual Studio GitHub GitLab Git Xcode Gerrit Code Review Beanstalk	Git

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