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Re: Tower 2

#41

Post by andrewingram »

nolok wrote: post #38
andrewingram wrote: post #15

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'm assuming you're not involved in the tracking of tasks and releases in your job ? Because linking support ticket / customer to a task, and a set of tasks to a release, is a very common and regular feature of task tracking. I'm not saying it's not awesome that they contacted you and others like that, it's the rare kind of great marketing that benefits both sides, but I certainly do hope that a company working in th…

I've not worked in a company that sells an end-product, I've only worked building websites themselves. Like you say, i'm sure their issue tracker does most of the legwork for them, but it's still a big deal that they actually do this.

Re: Tower 2

#42

Post by MichaelGG »

_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).

What's wrong with Git Extensions?

Re: Tower 2

#43

Post by hellopat »

I bought Tower before I found out about Sourcetree, and while I enjoyed using it, I found that Soucetree was way more feature rich. Can anyone give me a reason why I should fork over even more dough for an app that I'm not even sure I'd end up using?

Re: Tower 2

#44

Post by kylec »

hellopat wrote: post #43

I bought Tower before I found out about Sourcetree, and while I enjoyed using it, I found that Soucetree was way more feature rich. Can anyone give me a reason why I should fork over even more dough for an app that I'm not even sure I'd end up using?

Why don't you try it first? You can download a 30-day trial for free. If you like it and want to keep using it after that, you can pay.

Re: Tower 2

#45

Post by imfletcher »

I use Tower daily, and used the Tower 2 beta for a bit. I have to say I think they are missing an opportunity. There are a few cool new features (like autofetch) but for the most part, the upgrade smacks of change-for-change-sakes not actual progress towards a good workflow. More clicks are required, keyboard-only navigation is tough, diffs are hidden by default.

One thing most of these guys do is simply smack a UI on top of a command line, rather than explore ways to manipulate the available data into a better workflow than you could possibly get via commands. the conflict wizard is a good step, but that is only part of the story. Repo's are full of data ready to be mined in ways that aren't just 'git pull' and 'git merge'. There is a visual file history, changes made per-person, etc.

Re: Tower 2

#46

Post by thathonkey »

hellopat wrote: post #43

I bought Tower before I found out about Sourcetree, and while I enjoyed using it, I found that Soucetree was way more feature rich. Can anyone give me a reason why I should fork over even more dough for an app that I'm not even sure I'd end up using?

FWIW when I was researching Git GUIs for some CLI-averse team members, I came to the same conclusion. Sourcetree is the best and most feature-complete GUI out there for Git (Tower was one of the others I looked at).

Plus it is free.

Re: Tower 2

#47

Post by eropple »

jib wrote: post #40
nolok wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm assuming you're not involved in the tracking of tasks and releases in your job ? Because linking support ticket / customer to a task, and a set of tasks to a release, is a very common and regular feature of task tracking. I'm not saying it's not awesome that they contacted you and others like that, it's the rare kind of great marketing that benefits both sides, but I certainly do hope that a company working in th…

Because it is hard and costly to have a system that does that effectively, and harder and more costly to actually maintain integrity in that system over time. It IS impressive to be doing this, at least once you're past the stage of having a few guys doing customer support. Building an integration between a CRM and a backlog/bug tracker has some complexity. Maintaining that over several years and proactively contacti…

> Because it is hard and costly to have a system that does that effectively, and harder and more costly to actually maintain integrity in that system over time.

I don't think this is really true. I implemented it with Redmine for ~12 customer support people in a day or so. Been ticking along for five years without a complaint.

Re: Tower 2

#48

Post by zak_mc_kracken »

imfletcher wrote: post #45

I use Tower daily, and used the Tower 2 beta for a bit. I have to say I think they are missing an opportunity. There are a few cool new features (like autofetch) but for the most part, the upgrade smacks of change-for-change-sakes not actual progress towards a good workflow. More clicks are required, keyboard-only navigation is tough, diffs are hidden by default. One thing most of these guys do is simply smack a UI o…

This is one of the things I really like about SourceTree, that I can do pretty much everything from the keyboard. Several times a day, I type

- Ctrl-shift-+ (add file to index)

- Ctrl-shift-c (commit)

- (type the description of the commit)

- Alt-enter (validate)

- Ctrl-shift-p (push)

No mouse necessary.

The SourceTree people know how a developer works.

Re: Tower 2

#49

Post by dive »

I'm disappointed. Now we have nice UI plus huge UX downgrade:

- unchangeable font in sidebar;

- quick navigation via Cmd + [1,2,3] doesn't resign focus to the file/change list, so you need to click to continue use your hot keys (I hate app that make me clicking unnecessarily!);

- all main keyboard hotkeys changed (Cmd + Alt + [Shift] + P - for pushing [pulling] and etc). But why do you ask? Because they said;

- 'Cmd + Ctrl + Backspace' doesn't discard local changes for the selected files, marks them as deleted instead (nice try);

- submodules autofetching enabled by default and said 'Nice to meet you!' to our project with git-subtree based modules.

As a result, I can not use this app, because my hands still remember and I hate when I'm forced to click without the need!

A good chance for SourceTree.

Re: Tower 2

#50

Post by [deleted] »

dive wrote: post #49

I'm disappointed. Now we have nice UI plus huge UX downgrade: - unchangeable font in sidebar; - quick navigation via Cmd + [1,2,3] doesn't resign focus to the file/change list, so you need to click to continue use your hot keys (I hate app that make me clicking unnecessarily!); - all main keyboard hotkeys changed (Cmd + Alt + [Shift] + P - for pushing [pulling] and etc). But why do you ask? Because they said; - 'Cmd…

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