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Tower 2 Git client is coming
- moneypenny 12y agoHigh-quality client, new version sounds like it'll be on par with Sourcetree features while retaining a decent GUI. Sourcetree is marvellous, but overly complicated to use.
- nailer 12y agoDoes Tower have interactive rebase these days? I'm mainly using SourceTree right now since I don't miss out on anything from the command line version.
- brbcoding 12y agoSame here, but SourceTree just seems to get so slow after a fair amount of use.
- bshimmin 12y agoSourceTree crashes like all hell for our team. I like the pretty visualisation of the branches, and it's not bad for git newbies, but it actually feels like a relief using the command line most of the time.
- notduncansmith 12y agoIs there a reason to use SourceTree a lot? I only fire up Source Tree when I'm feeling too lazy to compose a search command from the terminal. Of course, `git log | grep phrase` usually does the trick but if I need anything fancier (date ranges, for instance) I'll just fire up ST.
- sergiotapia 12y agoI use it to read commit log messages and see what changes were made to the files. For actual commiting, branching, etc I just use the terminal.
- brbcoding 12y agoI use it mostly for the graphs... We work between a ton of branches and it's nice to see the visualization. Also, it's a lot faster when I have to push multiple branches to multiple repos (looking through 2 remotes with 7 branches each right now).
- lttlrck 12y agowhat does its visualization offer that gitk --all doesn't?
- nailer 12y agoVisually tracking merges. Even minimalist command-line-only people I know use basic GUI apps like gitk for this.
- nailer 12y agoYeah, the bugs (it occasionally needs a full restart) in SourceTree definitely hold it back. I'm willing to put up with them for all the other features, but I can understand how others wouldn't.
- biafra 12y agoI think the support for squashing that Tower has, is far better (or easier to use) than how interactive rebase works in SourceTree. In fact that is the reason I bought Tower. You can squash on merge. In SourceTree I was not able to squash without craeting aditional commits on the way.
- randomblast 12y agoI liked the original Tower when it came out, and I paid the £50 or whatever it was since it was so much better than everything else. I don't know if it can compete with SourceTree any more though: pretty much all of its advertised new features are already present in SourceTree, which is free.
- madeofpalk 12y agoSourceTree has a nightmare of a UI. I would much rather trade a few features for a Git client with a solid UI. I went to just using git on the command line, and the GitHub mac app for doing commits
- nailer 12y agoA bunch of stuff was inconsistent - I think they had three or four styles of dropdown at one point. They had a massive cleanup in 1.9 though.
- paozac 12y agoI find this gitx fork pretty good, and it's GPL: http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
- brettskiii 12y agoYeah I use this one as well. Tower has more eye candy, but I find that confusing, this is simple and does the trick really well
- Noxchi 12y agoIs it available on windows?
- szimpl 12y agoNo, Mac-only for now.
- reymundolopez 12y agoSure https://windows.github.com/ https://windows.github.com/
- Argorak 12y agoDifferent product and github only.
- nailer 12y agoI think the github app actually handles non-GH repos. It's just inconsistent with git terminology and concepts.
- AjithAntony 12y agoYeah, use it only for browsing commits. I'm too scared to tempt fate with the "sync" button.
- jtanderson 12y agoWhat nailer said. Works great on non-GH repos without any complaints, just maybe non-standard workflows and mentality. It's actually what I recommend to colleagues who aren't comfortable with git, but we find it to be better than any other version control or [insert LaTeX collab startup here] for writing academic articles. Edit: for clarity.
- robinhoodexe 12y agoI'm actually considering to start using latex with git, mostly for my own notes and papers. I'm in an academic environment. What are your experience with using latex + git?
- james33 12y agoI've been a big fan of GitHub for Mac since it first launched, and it still gets regular updates. It won't be easy to convince me to switch, but I'm all for improving tools that are such a big part of the workflow.
- spacey 12y agoHow does it compare to SmartGit/Hg? http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/ http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/