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Re: Tower 2

#51

Post by dive »

zak_mc_kracken wrote: post #48
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.

To be fair, you can do this in Tower (1) with the same steps:

- Cmd + Alt + A (to index)

- Cmd + Alt + C (add commit message or amend)

- Alt + Enter (validate)

- Cmd + Alt + Shift + P (push)

But, as I said before in comments, base UX abilities now broken in Tower 2.

Re: Tower 2

#52

Post by danudey »

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 I should fork over even more dough for an app that I'm not even sure I'd end up using?

You shouldn't. You can try the demo though.

Re: Tower 2

#53

Post by tobidobi »

nimmen wrote: post #37

Errors on purchase page are not encouraging: Notice: Undefined index: body style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida grande', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> in /kunden/281288_70176/apps/website_tower/releases/9b6ba7f1-20142207090452/www/lib/pricing.php on line 192

I apologize for the downtime. Our store is now back up: http://www.git-tower.com/buy

Re: Tower 2

#54

Post by tobidobi »

goatforce5 wrote: post #39
nimmen wrote: post #37

Errors on purchase page are not encouraging: Notice: Undefined index: body style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida grande', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> in /kunden/281288_70176/apps/website_tower/releases/9b6ba7f1-20142207090452/www/lib/pricing.php on line 192

Agreed. I've used Tower since one of the earliest releases and was ready to pull out my credit card before even reading what the new features were. Meh.

I apologize for the downtime. Our store is now back up: http://www.git-tower.com/buy

Re: Tower 2

#55

Post by imfletcher »

nimmen wrote: post #37

Errors on purchase page are not encouraging: Notice: Undefined index: body style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'lucida grande', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> in /kunden/281288_70176/apps/website_tower/releases/9b6ba7f1-20142207090452/www/lib/pricing.php on line 192

these sorts of things happen. not fair to judge them on that. judge them on the product, not the website

Re: Tower 2

#56

Post by psychometry »

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?

Because there's a trial. And there's more to an app's value than its feature set. I don't know anything about Sourcetree, but I probably only use a small minority of git's feature set and will always go with the app with the superior UI/UX.

Re: Tower 2

#57

Post by donatj »

It looks like custom diff tools are currently broken. I've got a plist/shell script for Beyond Compare 4 that worked fine in Tower 1.x but clicking diff tool doesn't seem to do anything in 2.x. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.

Re: Tower 2

#59

Post by bellerocky »

It's a nice update, but I wish I could use the search bar to search for files in the tree. This would be really useful when I have an issue in a file and wanted to do a blame for that file. Having to go navigate through the UI file tree to do this is very painful, and it's very simple on the command line. It would be even nicer if find file feature in the seach bar this was a fuzzy finder, it could use the silver searcher to do this even.

Re: Tower 2

#60

Post by NegativeK »

eropple wrote: post #47
jib wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm more impressed with the social aspect than the software.

Trackers exist and are great, but people tend to ignore bugs/requests and either let them rot without cleanup or do sweeps that kill old information.

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