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Nikita Korotaev
Upgraded this morning. Great job @pointnove & team! Really nice improvement in the UX with drag to PUSH/MERGE. Auto-stashing is a super feature! Yet to setup a Git-flow, but like that button over there :)
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Playing with it now. So far I think this looks really good. On boarding is easy. Diff/merge tool setup was easier than sourcetree.
The working copy view is really nice. UI seems to have everything I need while staying simple.
One thing that bugs me a little bit. It's a little slow when switching branches. Could probably make it feel faster by having the new branch highlight immediately, rather than once the commit view is loaded.
Otherwise, I'm impressed & will keep playing with it.
@pointnova The only thing it's missing that I use a lot. Interactive rebasing. Otherwise, thumbs up!
It has to be asked, but what is the main difference with Sourcetree or Gitx-dev ?
@Copypastaa (disclaimer: I'm part of the Tower team) - I think most people that chose Tower over Sourcetree or Gitx prefer our approach in regard to user interface, workflows and usability.
We offer service accounts integration (github, beanstalk, bitbucket, etc.), a visual conflict wizard, auto-fetching (in the background) and very thought-out workflows in general. Tower goes a long way to make using Git as easy and comfortable as possible. Plus, we also aim to make it look and feel as native as possible on OS X :)
Feel free to download our trial and give it a go. This 1 min video gives you a little overview:
Julian here from Tower. Thanks for submitting Tower 2 :) Let me know if you have any questions.
@pointnova Thanks Julian, you've done a great job, integration of Git Flow is particularly appreciated ;)
@pointnova awesome :). Downloading now, I'll try it out today.
I use sourcetree everyday now. But I'll give this a shot.
I bought Tower a long time ago, loved it while I used it, but it started to feel slow the more repositories I added. Eventually switched to Source Tree. But I just downloaded the Tower 2 Trial, and think it looks promising!
It's great to see that so many of the feature requests I've made (or thought about making) over the years for Tower have made it into this release. Have only spent the morning with it, but I'm happy so far. Good work guys!
@jerryhjones thank you Jerry! And thank you for taking the time to send us your feedback & feature requests! :)
Hey @pointnova I'm a Tower user since the beginning.
I like the new version so far (especially the gitflow integration) - nice work guys!
I have some feedback:
- "Close window" (red dot) should keep the app running, not kill it.
- the vertical layout is nice but it's hard to read the full commit message when you are on a 13" on 15". Maybe you should not truncate the message?
Keep up the good work!
@_victa Hey Victor! Great to hear that you like the new version and awesome to have you as a long-time user :) Thanks for the feedback. Truncation is currently a bug and will be fixed soon.