Git Tower 16
This update introduces Automatic Branch Management, making it easier than ever to keep your repository tidy and clutter-free. We’ve also added significant improvements to the “History” view for better visualization of your work 😎
Tower 16 for Mac is now in beta, and it introduces AI Commits, allowing you to generate commit messages and descriptions with the help of AI directly from your favorite Git client.
Every year there are lots of new features, but it still seems to me that they’re ignoring the basics:
Why can you not search the contents of files/changes?
When I drag and drop a file that’s in one my repositories into Tower, why does it offer to create a new repository instead of showing me that file’s history?
When viewing a file’s history, why is there no way to see the full commit message without copying the SHA-1, switching to a different view, pasting it into the search field, and changing the menu to search by Commit Hashes? This should just take one click or perhaps a hover.
Tower v15.0 got a new liquid glass icon but unfortunately, like some Apple-made icons early in the beta season, it looks blurry in the Dock.
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Nothing against Git Tower per se, but I've been quite happy with Sublime Merge for a long time. It also pairs well with Sublime Text, which is still my favorite lite text editor.
> why is there no way to see the full commit message without copying the SHA-1, switching to a different view, pasting it into the search field, and changing the menu to search by Commit Hashes
Yes, why?? Also I believe in some cases the hash is not even selectable/copyable.
I just tried it… and compared to GitKraken much nicer UI and has some good capabilities, but:
- rebase doesn’t “just work” - in GitKraken, it is so easy. Built in diff is so great. Also the rebase broke and I was unable to get out of it; only GitKraken helped me to abort and then rebased without issues
- cannot stage a file just by touching the keyboard
The issue is, these two are a dealbreaker to me, needed for basic flows. I might also add Tower into my workflow, but I can never replace GitKraken until they improve upon this.
You stage by pressing space. If space opens quicklook for you, there is a setting to change it to stage/unstage.
