The biggest downside for me is the inability to easily browse the state of a repo at a given commit, like I could with TortoiseHG. I keep around GitExtensions for some of that history browsing. Also, the security software installed on my work machine insists on inspecting new processes for validation, which unfortunately doesn't play well with ST spawning multiple git.exe process trees. Always pegs my CPU and slows things down. Performance is reasonable on other machines, though.

Overall, I find it a useful and valuable tool. I just wish they'd make real improvements instead of this "replace a perfectly acceptable UI with a bunch of unreadable gray lines" nonsense they just pulled. I'm sticking with 1.6.25.

I use it daily, for work and personal projects. Mainly like the fact that I can instantly see the changes in files and unstage/stage only the relevant changes for the commit. I sometimes keep temp code around for weeks without issues because I can easily just _not_ commit it.

I'm not a power user, I think I just needed something free with a private repository.

- Install and start it on Windows 10 and the initial Atlassian login screen doesn't work (it pops a browser window over the top that doesn't go anywhere). It eventually works after 3 or 4 tries.

- Upgrade from an older version on a machine where some of the repos in the left hand pane have been removed and it crashes instantly on first run with null reference exceptions.

- Space as a shortcut to add a file to staging is gone.

- Right click on the menu heading "Branches" in the middle panel and it will let you try to check out a branch named "Branches"

- If you had the setting on to show full console output (I like to see the output of the post-receive hook) it now shows the dialog for every file you add to staging.