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Hyper vs SourceTree: What are the differences?

What is Hyper? On-Demand Container, Per-Second Billing. Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries.

What is SourceTree? 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.

Hyper belongs to "Containers as a Service" category of the tech stack, while SourceTree can be primarily classified under "Source Code Management Desktop Apps".

Some of the features offered by Hyper are:

  • Hyper is able to launch instances in sub-second. Also, Hyper requires the minimal resource footprint: ~12MB mem
  • Hyper is immune from the "shared kernel" problem in container
  • Hyper is hypervisor agnostic

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.
Decisions about Hyper and SourceTree

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.

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Pros of Hyper
Pros of SourceTree
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    • 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
    • 22
      Great branch visualization
    • 18
      Ui/ux and user-friendliness
    • 8
      Best Git Client UI/Features
    • 7
      Search commit messages
    • 5
      Available for Windows and macOS
    • 1
      Log only one file
    • 1
      Search file content

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    Cons of Hyper
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      • 12
        Crashes often
      • 8
        So many bugs
      • 7
        Fetching is slow sometimes
      • 5
        No dark theme (Windows)
      • 5
        Extremely slow
      • 5
        Very unstable
      • 4
        Can't select text in diff (windows)
      • 3
        Freezes quite frequently
      • 3
        Can't scale window from top corners
      • 2
        UI blinking
      • 2
        Windows version worse than mac version
      • 2
        Installs to AppData folder (windows)
      • 2
        Diff makes tab indentation look like spaces
      • 2
        Windows and Mac versions are very different
      • 2
        Diff appears as if space indented even if its tabs
      • 2
        Doesn't have an option for git init
      • 2
        Useless for merge conflict resolution
      • 2
        Doesn't differentiate submodules from parent repos
      • 2
        Requires bitbucket account
      • 1
        Generally hard to like
      • 1
        No reflog support
      • 1
        Bases binary check on filesize
      • 1
        Can't add remotes by right clicking remotes (windows)

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      What is Hyper?

      Hyper.sh is a secure container hosting service. What makes it different from AWS (Amazon Web Services) is that you don't start servers, but start docker images directly from Docker Hub or other registries.

      What is SourceTree?

      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.

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      What are some alternatives to Hyper and SourceTree?
      KVM
      KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).
      iTerm2
      A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.12 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.
      Git
      Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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      GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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