Tower 2

#1

Post by alexbilbie » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 10:05 AM UTC

Tower 2
git-tower.com

Re: Tower 2

#2

Post by Mithaldu » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:35 AM UTC

A third-party git GUI that defaults to exposing the staging area by default and provides nicely granular tool for commit composition? I am impressed.

Only sad thing is i can't usefully try it out, being on Windows.

Re: Tower 2

#3

Post by solutionyogi » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:42 AM UTC

That video was extremely well done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyuqf1m-2E

For a moment, it made me want to ditch Windows and migrate to Mac just to use this client.

Personal favorite, being able to see up stream commits without actually applying them on your local branch.

I currently use SmartGIT on Windows and I am sort-of-happy with it. I wonder why no one is trying to create a killer Git client on Windows.

Re: Tower 2

#4

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:44 AM UTC

solutionyogi wrote: post #3

That video was extremely well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyuqf1m-2E For a moment, it made me want to ditch Windows and migrate to Mac just to use this client. Personal favorite, being able to see up stream commits without actually applying them on your local branch. I currently use SmartGIT on Windows and I am sort-of-happy with it. I wonder why no one is trying to create a killer Git client on Windows.

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Re: Tower 2

#5

Post by fideloper » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:44 AM UTC

Visual conflict management and visual "git add -p" does look really nice.

(Here's a good SO q/a on `git add -p`: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085162/commit-only-part-...)

Re: Tower 2

#6

Post by dewey » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:46 AM UTC

In case you are wondering: Yes there's way to upgrade your 1.x licence (€25 + tax), just navigate through the buy process and it'll give you an option to select that. I was searching for that on the landing page but couldn't find anything.

Re: Tower 2

#7

Post by _stephan » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:52 AM UTC

solutionyogi wrote: post #3

That video was extremely well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyuqf1m-2E For a moment, it made me want to ditch Windows and migrate to Mac just to use this client. Personal favorite, being able to see up stream commits without actually applying them on your local branch. I currently use SmartGIT on Windows and I am sort-of-happy with it. I wonder why no one is trying to create a killer Git client on Windows.

I wonder why no one is trying to create a killer Git client on Windows.

Because there is already one: SourceTree (which is also available for OS X).

Re: Tower 2

#8

Post by kayoone » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:53 AM UTC

solutionyogi wrote: post #3

That video was extremely well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyuqf1m-2E For a moment, it made me want to ditch Windows and migrate to Mac just to use this client. Personal favorite, being able to see up stream commits without actually applying them on your local branch. I currently use SmartGIT on Windows and I am sort-of-happy with it. I wonder why no one is trying to create a killer Git client on Windows.

try sourcetree from atlassian

Re: Tower 2

#9

Post by nailer » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:55 AM UTC

Can I squash commits and interactive rebase generally? These are pretty important to having a clean commit history, ie:

  'Add foo'

rather than:

  'Add foo' 
  'Small tweak to foo'
  'Fix forgetting to enable foo'

Re: Tower 2

#10

Post by amykhar » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 11:58 AM UTC

How does it compare to SourceTree, which is free?