Tower

Tower is a 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.

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. Advanced users can increase their productivity with features like single line staging, submodule support, or the file history.

Features

• git-svn support
• File history
• git-flow support
• Submodule support
• git-lfs support
• Blame view
• Single-line staging (per-line committing)
• Cherry-picking
• Discard chunks/lines
• Direct Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, GitSwarm, Beanstalk, Visual Studio Team Services, Team Foundation Server and Rhodecode integration
• Support for Bitbucket team accounts
• Support for full-screen and Retina displays
• Many powerful drag-and-drop features include merge, rebase, push /pull to/from remote, apply stash, create new branch, etc.

New

• Check Out Remote Branch: You can now double-click a remote branch in the sidebar to perform a checkout.
• Check Out Tags: Also, you can now double-click on a tag in the sidebar to check out a corresponding branch.
• Gender Neutral Avatars: If no avatar image can be loaded, Tower now uses the user's initials instead of a placeholder image.
• Refresh Expiring OAuth Tokens: On some code hosting platforms (e.g. bitbucket.org), OAuth tokens expire very quickly. Tower now refreshes expiring OAuth tokens periodically in the background for you. This makes Git remote operations over HTTPS work much more smoothly.

Improved

• Azure DevOps Rebranding: Microsoft's VSTS and VSTFS products were rebranded to "Azure DevOps", which is now reflected in Tower, too.
• Bitbucket API: The service API calls for bitbucket.org are now updated to work with their upcoming API changes.
• Submodule Improvements: We improved and fine-tuned many details in Tower's Submodule handling (e.g. when changing shared Submodule URLs).

Fixed

• Commit Composing View: When the "Sign-Off" option was checked while composing a commit message, the view could become wider as desired.
• Cherry-Pick Dialog: You can now combine the "--no-commit" option and the "--ff" option when performing a cherry-pick.
• Git Submodule Status: In this update, we're working around several regressions in recent Git versions that incorrectly regard Submodules as "clean".
• Toolbar Refresh: A couple of users reported that the toolbar wasn't always up to date (in terms of enabled / disabled buttons), which should now be improved.