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> I have a lot of projects, scrolling through tabs at the top is not good enough I think you are misunderstanding how the new flow is for repo viewing. The ta

> I have a lot of projects, scrolling through tabs at the top is not good enough I think you are misunderstanding how the new flow is for repo viewing. The tab (+) button is the replacement for the sidebar repo list. You are not expected to open every single repo and have them all as a separate tab. You are expected to open a reasonable amount of repos at once, do work with them, and then close them. If you want to look at other repos, you open them via the tab (+) button. I don't think its that big of a deal to change it like that. That's not to say this I think this is a perfect app. What I want them to improve is making it a bit nicer when you have more than ~10 repos open at once. The tabs are way too wide and scrolling through them is terrible with the way the scroll buttons work right now.

ArchReaper 9y ago
Does the (+) button open a file-open prompt, or is it a list of all previously opened projects? If it's the former, then it's absolutely useless for my use-case, and a great example of removed functionality. If it's the latter, then they have gone backwards in UX design (for my personal use case) - that is, it is now an additional layer of barrier for me to see and access all my projects, for what benefit? What problem is this solving? If the only answer to the previous question is something to the effect of "cleaner UI" or "less clutter" then there is a fundamental problem with how they approach updates. It really sucks that this is even a thing, because I feel bad for shitting on Atlassian so much, when I use Sourcetree almost exclusively, and have for quite a long time.
- Sujan 9y ago
  I agree that they mangled your use case, but think this is a pretty great improvement for probably >95% of their users. Most users do have not that many repos and work on only very few a day. The former UI had two ways to switch repos, and to be honest it happened quite often to me that I had selected a repo on the left, but not the tab, and so was looking at the wrong stuff for a few seconds. So I see your pain, but have to agree with the thinking behind this change. (Although I think the new repo selection screen is not very pretty, misses functionality [I can see all my folder opened at the same time] and wastes so much space - it should have just been like the old repo list but in a different location)
- socialist_coder 9y ago
  The (+) button shows you the same list as the repo sidebar did before. That is what you want, and yes, it's 1 additional click now. Not so bad.

ArchReaper 9y ago

Does the (+) button open a file-open prompt, or is it a list of all previously opened projects? If it's the former, then it's absolutely useless for my use-case, and a great example of removed functionality. If it's the latter, then they have gone backwards in UX design (for my personal use case) - that is, it is now an additional layer of barrier for me to see and access all my projects, for what benefit? What problem is this solving? If the only answer to the previous question is something to the effect of "cleaner UI" or "less clutter" then there is a fundamental problem with how they approach updates. It really sucks that this is even a thing, because I feel bad for shitting on Atlassian so much, when I use Sourcetree almost exclusively, and have for quite a long time.

Sujan 9y ago
I agree that they mangled your use case, but think this is a pretty great improvement for probably >95% of their users. Most users do have not that many repos and work on only very few a day. The former UI had two ways to switch repos, and to be honest it happened quite often to me that I had selected a repo on the left, but not the tab, and so was looking at the wrong stuff for a few seconds. So I see your pain, but have to agree with the thinking behind this change. (Although I think the new repo selection screen is not very pretty, misses functionality [I can see all my folder opened at the same time] and wastes so much space - it should have just been like the old repo list but in a different location)
socialist_coder 9y ago
The (+) button shows you the same list as the repo sidebar did before. That is what you want, and yes, it's 1 additional click now. Not so bad.