SourceTree Won't Show All My Changes

Question

I want to commit my works. But when I want to see what I changed and wrote them into commit message, I saw some of my changes won't show.

What is the problem?

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score 76 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 17 '21 at 10:44

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Change The Maximum Lines And Size In Options

Tools > Options > Diff

Change Max Diff Line Count And Change Size Limit (Text)

edited Dec 17 '21 at 10:44

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answered Jan 02 '16 at 15:50

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Is possible an unlimited diff? – Dani Sep 02 '17 at 18:44
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I've done exactly this, and the Diff still shows a maximum of 100 lines. applies both in the commit screen, the Log/History screen, and the Log window for that specific file. This makes it extremely difficult to track changes in files that are only a few hundred lines over a long period. I've set my line maximum to 1,000 and the size limit to 10,000, so this problem shouldn't be happening. – user3685427 Nov 18 '17 at 21:43
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This does work, but it was necessary for me to close Sourcetree and relaunch it for the change to take effect. – aaronsti Mar 24 '20 at 23:55
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@aaronsti I thought it wasn't working, but you're right if you relaunch it after the changes it works! – Alex W May 26 '20 at 00:04
No reboot necessary in v3.4.12. I wish I could upvote this twice, your answer almost a decade ago saved me from a very painful night – Patrick Moore Apr 04 '23 at 01:32

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 24 '17 at 00:40

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I'm adding this answer as another possible cause of SourceTree "only showing the change history for a single file". This was annoying me for quite a while. No settings changes would display more than one file. THEN, I realised that the commit summary is actually a panel which slides up over the file list. ZOMG.

answered Feb 24 '17 at 00:40

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Thanks, this got me too. You have to hover the mouse at the top of the commit summary to see the splitter. Also in my SourceTree v2.2.4 it looks a bit different to your screenshot as the file list has two columns and you can still see the Filename/Path column headers while the commit summary is covering the actual file list. – Glenn Lawrence Dec 03 '19 at 05:51

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 29 '19 at 08:45

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Make sure your filter is setup correctly:

For me the filter bugged out and while the main text said "Pending files", the dropdown had nothing selected.

answered Apr 29 '19 at 08:45

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 15 '18 at 12:09

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Another possible reason:

Make sure Ignore whitespace in the diff view is not enabled.

answered Jan 15 '18 at 12:09

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 17 '21 at 10:45

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Size Update For the latest ScourceTree

ScourceTree -> Preferences -> Diff -> Size limit(text)

answered Dec 17 '21 at 10:45

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 02 '16 at 16:14

Make sure that you copy the last version of your project, the one that you want to commit, to the directory of your repositories that you set for SourceTree. Replace the old project with the new one then open SourceTree
Open SourceTree, click commit, select all the files that you want to commit, which will probably be all the files you see (becuase SourceTree shows the changed files after you click commit).
On the Puush button on the top you'll se a red notification icon which means that you didn't push the last commit. Once you do that, your changes must be visible on BitBucket and SourceTree

William Shurtleff · Answer 7 · 2021-07-13T19:40:30.437

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If it is not a Pending issue or an options issue mentioned above, make sure Mercurial wasn't inadvertently checked if you're using it with Git. It will manifest in a similar way. If so, you're going to need to deinstall & re-install.

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answered Jul 13 '21 at 19:32

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 25 '23 at 06:52

Even though I have changed the size limit for the txt file, SourceTree still would not show diff for package-lock.json. Instead it shows "Modified binary file, diff suppressed". I was confused and looked for the possible answer for that, e.g. Why does Git treat this text file as a binary file?

Then I found there is another setting "Ignore File pattern"! After I remove *lock pattern, SoureTree finally show the change for package-lock.json

SourceTree Won't Show All My Changes

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