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Re: Tower 2

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Post by tobidobi » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:01 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #9

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'

Interactive rebase is not yet supported. But is already on the roadmap and will come in 2.x.

Re: Tower 2

#12

Post by sz4kerto » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:02 PM 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.

SourceTree can be considered as a killer client, I think.

Re: Tower 2

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Post by tobidobi » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:05 PM UTC

amykhar wrote: post #10

How does it compare to SourceTree, which is free?

First, let me say that Sourcetree is an excellent application, too. However, most people that chose Tower over Sourcetree prefer our approach in regard to user interface, workflows, usability, etc. A visual conflict wizard, a new service account manager, automatic stashing... Tower goes a long way to make using Git both as easy and as comfortable as possible.

Re: Tower 2

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Post by jawngee » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:07 PM UTC

I've been messing around with this for about 20 minutes. I was a huge Tower 1 fan until I found SourceTree, which, back then, handled submodules way better.

I hate when people post things to HN and then the dour crowd posts a bunch of negative crap about it, but I honestly haven't found anything in my scant 20 minutes with it that is giving me the urge to want to fork the $30 to upgrade. I don't really need to drag and drop stuff to branch and push. I understand english pretty well, so I get what "Resolve using mine" means. Otherwise, they kind of look pretty similar to each other, except that it's a bit easier to see what's going on with SourceTree.

I don't know, I raved about Tower before I gave SourceTree a good go. SourceTree's UI has made giant leaps since then and I don't see anything in Tower that's easier to do than SourceTree. Also, the UI feels a little too "large" to me somehow, it's not comfortable at all.

Re: Tower 2

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Post by andrewingram » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:08 PM UTC

Great customer service too. When Tower was first released at the end of 2010, I asked for a feature (multiple windows) but they said it wasn't part of their plan for the UI. Anyway, this morning I got an email from them to specifically tell me that the feature I asked for was in version 2. They'd bothered to go back through 3 and a half years of support tickets to find customers who would benefit from the new release, I was hugely impressed.

Re: Tower 2

#16

Post by tkschmidt » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:17 PM UTC

Is there an option to automatically merge --non-ff a feature branch into development? "Finish feature" seems to use just merge

Re: Tower 2

#17

Post by tobidobi » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:24 PM UTC

tkschmidt wrote: post #16

Is there an option to automatically merge --non-ff a feature branch into development? "Finish feature" seems to use just merge

In the standard "Merge" dialog (see toolbar button), the option "Always generate merge commit" will make sure the merge is --no-ff.

Re: Tower 2

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Post by tkschmidt » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:28 PM UTC

tobidobi wrote: post #17

tkschmidt wrote: post #16

Is there an option to automatically merge --non-ff a feature branch into development? "Finish feature" seems to use just merge

In the standard "Merge" dialog (see toolbar button), the option "Always generate merge commit" will make sure the merge is --no-ff.

but this option doesn't work for the "finish feature" part of git-flow

Re: Tower 2

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Post by walden42 » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:46 PM UTC

_stephan wrote: post #7

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).

Can't find any information for a planned Linux release =(

Re: Tower 2

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Post by jawngee » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 12:47 PM UTC

amykhar wrote: post #10

How does it compare to SourceTree, which is free?

You can see my comment elsewhere, but I've been messing around with Tower 2 some more, and I'm actually finding it pretty confusing. It seems submodule support is still flawed. For example:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s218/sh/755a2a30-db64-4378-bc...

I'm not sure why it's showing the submodule folders as something I need to commit.

I prefer the combined view that SourceTree has of changed files with your branch history. In Tower 2, they seem to be separated.

I do like the breadcrumb trail for going into submodules though. SourceTree opens it as a separate window, which I find annoying.