SourceTree 2.6.3 (2.6.x) for Mac is horribly slow

[Jerry Ylilammi]

SourceTree 2.6.3 seems incredibly slow on Mac. I suggest you consider rollbacking all changes and put this as bug as blocker, it makes SourceTree pretty much unusable.

[Jonathan Gilbert]

I get literally five seconds of spinning beachball or a stuck cursor in between just about every operation I do. This is not even that crazy of a repo. It gets worse the longer that SourceTree has been open for.

I downloaded Git Tower and Git Kraken, and both of them are blazingly fast on my 2.8 GHZ top of the line MacBookPro from mid-2015. 

There is no excuse for how painfully slow SourceTree is, in this version. Do you guys even performance test, bro?

I prefer SourceTree's UI, and it's what I'm used to. However this particular version is so slow that it is basically unusable. 

Someone who knows what O(N^N^N^N) means should look at your code.

[Lazar Vuckovic]

I'm experiencing the same issue. It's very slow when clicking between files and always spins the loader cursor for a long time. It worked just fine before the update.

[Dave Gray]

Me too. It's driving me potty. Just opening a repo view from the repo list takes almost 5 seconds.

As you're all saying - it was fine with 2.5.x

[Benjamin Mullikin]

Ditto on 2.6.3 being horribly slow. I've had to force quite multiple times after simply opening a repo (no complex compare, and doesn't matter what size the repo)

Downgrading to 2.5.3 and everything is back to normal. 

[Martin Gregory]

Me too.  Frequent spinning wheel after a source code change.

Underlying git is 2.10.1

I might be imagining it, but a restart seems to help (!)

[aknabi]

Same here... on 10.12.6 and upgraded from 2.5.3... I'm on a 12-core mac pro and it's slow! working on the same project I have been for the past months and it's clear it's *much* slower.

Note one thing to check is if you're running something like dropbox... I kill dropbox while developing as it's seriously a slow POS

[bgannin]

Generating visual diffs is a complex task within Sourcetree, how large are the files/changesets you're navigating between?

[john2525]

It is also very slow for me. Activity Monitor shows it taking 100% CPU (with a dual core) when switching focus between files in the Unstaged files list.

SourceTree 2.6.3, OSX 10.11.6.