{"id":52662,"date":"2026-07-20T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52662"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:28:44","slug":"git-tower-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/20\/git-tower-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Git Tower 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.git-tower.com\/blog\/tower-mac-17\">Bruno Brito<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.git-tower.com\/release-notes?tower_version=17.0%20%28545%29&amp;tower_plan=2fb12456-35ca-4008-baf7-a6bec9a122d1&amp;os_version=26.5.2&amp;release_channel=stable&amp;os_name=mac\">release notes<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.git-tower.com\/blog\/tower-mac-17\">\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.git-tower.com\/blog\/tower-mac-15\">Tower 15<\/a>, we introduced the &ldquo;Fully Merged&rdquo; badge and Automatic Branch Management to help you keep your repository tidy. With Tower 17, we&rsquo;re taking the detection behind that badge to a whole new level. [&#8230;] Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service, such as GitHub or GitLab.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Trust is everything when deleting branches &mdash; so we redesigned the &ldquo;Fully Merged&rdquo; hint view to show you exactly which checks matched.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>One that is particularly noteworthy is that updating submodules is now significantly faster! Tower gathers each submodule's Git data concurrently instead of one at a time&mdash;something you will especially notice in repositories with many submodules.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m sad that they got rid of the yellow icon.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/git-tower-16\/\">Git Tower 16<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Brito (release notes): In Tower 15, we introduced the &ldquo;Fully Merged&rdquo; badge and Automatic Branch Management to help you keep your repository tidy. With Tower 17, we&rsquo;re taking the detection behind that badge to a whole new level. [&#8230;] Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-20T15:27:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"a738a43e-c643-4ac9-b3d3-45708f8ad82c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-20T15:27:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ApzikPsZDSsmz00Vwj4rYLA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[75,377,524,2252,545,30,32,2742,71,376],"class_list":["post-52662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-developertool","tag-git","tag-github","tag-gitlab","tag-icons","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-programming","tag-versioncontrol"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52667,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52662\/revisions\/52667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}