{"id":9206,"date":"2014-07-22T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9206"},"modified":"2014-07-25T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T20:37:36","slug":"tower-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/tower-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.git-tower.com\">Tower 2<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.git-tower.com\/blog\/tower2-is-here\/\">now available<\/a>. I like some of the new features, such as support for multiple windows, the new Open Quickly feature, changing the tabs to a sidebar, sending folder diffs to BBEdit or Kaleidoscope, and the removal of the popovers.<\/p>\n<p>Previous versions would hang forever when there were a large number of changes in the working copy. I think this is fixed&mdash;at least I never saw that happen during beta testing.<\/p>\n<p>There are some problems, though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The sheet for committing has been replaced by a pane that expands and contracts in animated fashion, which is distracting. It is not as easily keyboard-navigable.<\/li>\n<li>The working copy window has been redesigned so that the panes are left-to-right rather than top-to-bottom. I liked the old way much better. Now, the commit message, history list, file paths, and diffs are all too narrow&mdash;especially on an internal display but even on my 30-inch external one.<\/li>\n<li>When arrow-keying through a list of changed files, the viewer sometimes shows the changes for a previously selected file, rather than the current one.<\/li>\n<li>The commit viewer used to show the diffs right away. Now they&rsquo;re hidden until you click a button. There is no menu command or keyboard shortcut.<\/li>\n<li>More generally, most of the important <a href=\"http:\/\/www.git-tower.com\/help\/mac\/faq-and-tips\/keyboard-shortcuts\">keyboard shortcuts<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8068140\">changed<\/a>. The new ones are OK, but I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;re clearly better.<\/li>\n<li>Discard Local Changes, one of my most frequently used commands, is no longer in the menu bar. It&rsquo;s only available via a contextual menu. The documentation claims that there is a Command-Control-Delete keyboard shortcut, but that actually <em>deletes<\/em> the file.<\/li>\n<li>The file history view is <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/sourcetree-1-2-1\/\">still<\/a> not as good as SourceTree&rsquo;s, and it has actually gotten worse. Before, there was a list of commits in a too-small popover. Now, the file history view is essentially just a search for the commits that touched the file. Clicking on a commit shows a list of <em>all<\/em> the files that were changed in that commit. There is no easy way to see just the changes for a particular file or to quickly compare multiple versions.<\/li>\n<li>It&rsquo;s still hard to access the history for a file if you&rsquo;re starting from your text editor or the Finder. <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/sourcetree-1-7\/\">Why can&rsquo;t<\/a> you drag and drop a file onto the Dock icon? Or onto the search box? Or pass it to the <tt>gittower<\/tt> command?<\/li>\n<li>It still can&rsquo;t search the contents of commits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tower 2 is now available. I like some of the new features, such as support for multiple windows, the new Open Quickly feature, changing the tabs to a sidebar, sending folder diffs to BBEdit or Kaleidoscope, and the removal of the popovers. 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