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Tower is a powerful Git client for OS X that makes using Git easy and more efficient. Users benefit from its elegant and comprehensive interface and a feature set that lets them enjoy the full power of Git.
Learning Git with Tower. Tower abstracts Git's complexity in an easy-to-use interface. For example, lots of actions can be performed simply via drag and drop, and mistakes can be undone easily.
Using Tower as an Expert. Advanced users can increase their productivity with features like single line staging, submodule
Learning Git with Tower. Tower abstracts Git's complexity in an easy-to-use interface. For example, lots of actions can be performed simply via drag and drop, and mistakes can be undone easily.
Using Tower as an Expert. Advanced users can increase their productivity with features like single line staging, submodule
What's New
Version 1.5.4:
- Simplify SSH Public Key management after Apple's security update in OS X 10.9.2
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
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| Version Downloads:427 |
| Type:Development : Source |
| License:Demo |
| Date:04 Mar 2014 |
| Platform:Intel 64 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price: $59.00 |
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Tower is a powerful Git client for OS X that makes using Git easy and more efficient. Users benefit from its elegant and comprehensive interface and a feature set that lets them enjoy the full power of Git.
Learning Git with Tower. Tower abstracts Git's complexity in an easy-to-use interface. For example, lots of actions can be performed simply via drag and drop, and mistakes can be undone easily.
Using Tower as an Expert. Advanced users can increase their productivity with features like single line staging, submodule support, or the file history.
Features include:
Learning Git with Tower. Tower abstracts Git's complexity in an easy-to-use interface. For example, lots of actions can be performed simply via drag and drop, and mistakes can be undone easily.
Using Tower as an Expert. Advanced users can increase their productivity with features like single line staging, submodule support, or the file history.
Features include:
- git-svn support
- file history
- submodule support
- blame view
- single line staging (per-line committing)
- cherry-picking
- discard chunks/lines
- direct Github, Beanstalk, and Bitbucket integration
- Support for full-screen and Retina displays in OS X 10.7 Lion
- many powerful drag-and-drop features include merge, rebase, push /pull to/from remote, apply stash, create new branch, etc.
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brandt reviewed on 22 Sep 2013
Tower sets itself above the rest by making Git more accessible to mere mortals without abstracting away Git's powerful features.
# For new users:
Tower helps take some of the edge off Git's steep learning curve by providing a clean GUI that faithfully represents what Git is actually doing under-the-hood. So as you use Tower, you learn Git.
# For more advanced users:
If you're already proficient in Git, you're probably looking for a tool that helps you efficiently navigate a source tree and its history.
Having used GitX, Github for Mac, and SourceTree, I'd say Tower provides the best "situational awareness" while digging through a repo.
It also takes some of the pain out of dealing with submodules.
# Criticism
The only UX quirks I've come across are:
- Branching off of HEAD could be a little easier (e.g. a button in the title bar).
- It'd be nice to have a character count on the commit message title for those of us who try to keep it under 50 characters.
Fournova seems very responsive to user feedback, so I'll send those in as feature requests.
# Verdict
Even with all the great free Git GUIs out there, getting Tower was worth it. It's just that good.
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signalprocessor reviewed on 18 Mar 2013
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NiravBhatt reviewed on 19 Feb 2013
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Londonskater reviewed on 14 Feb 2013
But, it lacks features. And parts of the UI are ambiguous and the repository management is non-existent. Once you have a lot of repos to manage, it's a mess.
And it's far from stable, there are lockup and crashes and stalls that plague it from time to time. The company are very responsive, to be fair, but in light of the FREE SourceTree which supports git-flow, and Mercurial, and really exposes the advanced features of Git, it's a no brainer. Use SourceTree. Tower is good, but they REALLY need to boost it past SourceTree to make it worth buying.
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Manis reviewed on 27 Jul 2012
If you want to do so too:
- Compile git from source
- Place it in Tower.app/Contents/Resources/git
I don't understand why they don't offer PowerPC support out of the box, to be honest.
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The last Power Mac was replaced by the Mac Pro in August 2006.
The PowerBooks in April 2006.
Thats 6 years!
And even if, who cares? Those machines are still very fast devices. I see no reason to replace them.
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The command is:
defaults write com.fournova.Tower PathToGitBinary "/usr/local/bin/git"
Change "/usr/local/bin/git" to wherever your `git` binary is installed, if not there.
Then Tower should use whatever you've pointed it to. FYI: Tower 1.5.0 uses Git 1.8.2 by default.
As for why apps are dropping PowerPC support...
I'm not the developer of Tower, so I'm speaking generally:
Most devs want to get their apps into as many people's hands as possible, but it's getting trickier to support PowerPC because it's getting harder to find PPC-based devices to test your code on.
Lately I've seen a lot of projects looking for PPC hardware just so that they can continue to support it. For instance, the MPlayer, VLC, and FreeBSD projects all have open requests.
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Xplicit reviewed on 06 Mar 2012
Ok, Tower is a little pricey but since it saves so much time it's well worth it.
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Teksestro reviewed on 21 Nov 2011
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Geccoh reviewed on 21 Oct 2011
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Christoph S. Ackermann reviewed on 06 Apr 2011
Makes git easy to me...
A bit expensive but it's okay for this.
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Giraldo rated on 25 Nov 2013
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slowbrain rated on 23 Nov 2013
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s.peter rated on 26 Sep 2013
Spencer Crum rated on 24 Sep 2013
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Aldaron rated on 07 Mar 2013
Koifim rated on 23 May 2012
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Blaf71 rated on 08 Feb 2012
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s.peter rated on 12 Jan 2012
tillkruess rated on 06 Jan 2012