Ha, try using it in Linux!

What Git GUI do you prefer?

Lightning talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ccCNQaTJ10

also, if you are a vimmer use spacemacs to get out of the box, nicely configured vim.

Definitely my favourite client, and OSS to boot. I can't really think of much I'd want changed to improve it.

Not really a fair comparison: SourceTree targets professional devs while GitHub Desktop caters to making git + GitHub simple for beginners. I like the client personally, but it isn't a daily driver. Beyond absolute basics the feature set is totally different.

No problems with paying for a product, but the way they went about the switch left a sour taste, so I went back to SourceTree.

We have quite some exciting features and additions on the roadmap!

In combination with GitUp, it's still a great tool, but it could need better QA so that even edge cases are solid.

I frequently pick through dozens of lines of code for a granular commit history, sometimes backing up a commit, saving a commit as a patch, (then) amending some lines to a previous commit, staging/unstaging non-consecutive additions and deletions, etc. and I've not experienced problems.

Renaming repos is straightforward but doing so does not rename the directory in the filesystem. It only renames it in the Tower UI.

To rename the repo root directory, one should copy the origin root directory naming it to the new name and then run

  git init --bare name_of_directory

The only trouble I've experienced is deleting branches and tags from Github. Not sure if it's Github or Tower, but deleting those items and then recreating them often yields an error that the item still exists.

(In my defense, the process established at work requires a deploy of a tag to STG once every 2 weeks, but the tag must be deployed to STG every week, leading to a situation where the STG tag must be deleted and recreated. Come to think of it, I'm going to suggest we change our process.)

I'm not affiliated with Tower except as a satisfied user.

EDIT: grammar, formatting, readability.

My biggest gripe is that Tower 1 use to display all your stashes on the side (expanded, not collapsed) by name/date. Tower 2 hides all that information from being easily viewable. I use to use stashes quite a lot, but since switching over I've significantly decreased my usage of it.

EDIT: now that I think about it, there are a few buggy things about it that are frequent but are just an annoyance, not a hindrance.

It is incredible slow for many operations.

My solution is to use command line git for most operations and SourceTree just for visualizing the repository. It's pretty fine for this.