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Re: Tower for Windows

#21

Post by Prefinem »

larsiusprime wrote: post #9
chinhodado wrote: post #8

It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are s…

Has anyone used tower and sourcetree and can compare them both? I am just about fed up with sourcetree and ready to switch to a not-terrible alternative.

I use both SourceTree and Tower on OS X and Windows.

While I can say that on OS X, both work better than their counterpart on Windows, Tower is still my go to client. I think the biggest thing is that when I started with Tower, things just clicked. On top of that, with Tower, I has never dealt with bugs or any issues (besides the windows beta installer).

SourceTree on Windows is pretty much worthless. It won't handle large repos well and large changes cause it to lock up and crash when trying to stage files. If you don't like Tower, I would recommend ungit[1] for Windows.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ungit

Re: Tower for Windows

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Post by Prefinem »

Zelphyr wrote: post #17
larsiusprime wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone used tower and sourcetree and can compare them both? I am just about fed up with sourcetree and ready to switch to a not-terrible alternative.

I use Tower on Mac daily. I initially recommended SourceTree for the Windows users in my team (they were all new to Git) but after using it with one of them I rescinded that recommendation. It is awful. If Tower for Windows is anything like its Mac counterpart I would recommend it head-and-shoulders over anything else. Well worth the price!

It is. I have been using the closed beta for a while now and besides an installer bug, it's almost as good as the OS X version.

Edit: typo fix

Re: Tower for Windows

#23

Post by V-2 »

pierre-renaux wrote: post #12
larsiusprime wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has anyone used tower and sourcetree and can compare them both? I am just about fed up with sourcetree and ready to switch to a not-terrible alternative.

On Windows Git Extensions is the best I've found: https://gitextensions.github.io/ SourceTree is barely usable now really, I switched back to GitX on OSX...

Git Extensions has certain shortcomings (search doesn't work that great, deleting branches is clunky etc.), but its competitors - on Windows at least - are even worse, I agree.

Besides, Git Extensions is written in C# and open-source... once I finally have some time on my hands (read: never), I'd gladly add some simple features that I'm missing in it

Re: Tower for Windows

#24

Post by pointnova »

mwcampbell wrote: post #16
adrianN wrote: post #2

Why no Linux version?

The Windows version is based on WPF. This strongly suggests that the Mac and Windows versions are completely separate apps, not a single app ported to multiple platforms. So a Linux version would be yet another completely separate app. That would be expensive to develop, for probably negligible reward.

That's correct. Tower Mac and Tower Windows are completely separate apps. 100% native technologies.

Re: Tower for Windows

#26

Post by tobidobi »

chinhodado wrote: post #25

Some feedbacks: - Everytime I clicked on the bottom left plus icon, the app crash: http://imgur.com/a/YI8OO - Can you add the option to always expand all diffs by default when viewing a commit? - Can you add support for Meld merge?

Tower team here: thanks for pointing this out! This is already on our todo list - and, in fact, already being worked on! Won't be an issue for very long ;-)

Re: Tower for Windows

#27

Post by rjbwork »

chinhodado wrote: post #8

It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are s…

I use a combination of SourceTree and TortoiseHg with the HgGit extension...what's sad is that TortoiseHg tends to work better than SourceTree, and definitely ebtter than the official GitHub client.

Re: Tower for Windows

#28

Post by pointnova »

ohstopitu wrote: post #14
pointnova wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I’m part of the team. We started with a Mac version in 2011 and based on the requests we received from our users decided to start working on a Windows version. Even so we don’t have plans for a Linux version right now, we’ll keep tracking the feedback.

Can we sign up to request feedback for a linux version? I have used Tower on OS X, and I loved it. I'm glad it's on Windows too.

Great to hear you liked Tower for Mac! If you ping our support, we can track it as a request. Alternatively you can sign up for our newsletter.

Re: Tower for Windows

#29

Post by WayneBro »

chinhodado wrote: post #8

It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are s…

TortoiseGit is by far the best Git GUI on Windows or anywhere else. The UI is light, fast and it stays out of your way. It's very tightly integrated with the file browser, which is really the only app I want to be using to look at my files...

SourceTree OTOH is slow and clunky on every platform. But even if it had a light and fast UI - it's not integrated with my file browser, which sucks. With TortoiseGit, every Git command that I need is a single click away when I'm viewing my files.

Re: Tower for Windows

#30

Post by alimbada »

chinhodado wrote: post #8

It is sad that Sourcetree, once the go-to git GUI for Windows and Mac is now full of bugs and performance issues, and almost always gets worse with every new version. They updated the UI every major version (e.g. 1.5 to 1.6, or 1.7/1.8/1.9), in most cases for no good reason (in fact they faced so much backlash on the change to flat grey UI that they had to backpedal and reintroduced colored icons). And yet they are s…

Since 1.9.x SourceTree has had a major memory leak that results in noticeable lag when I'm typing in the UI (e.g. a commit message) if the RAM usage is 1GB+.
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