I stumbled upon Tower, the wonderful Git client for macOS about 5 years ago.
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I am a Software engineer working in the Bay Area. I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone dealing with Git.
Tower is one of those phenomenally useful tools that is done with great taste, simply works, and gets out of your way when you are heads down into your work. Actually I'd say "nothing", but if I have to come up with something I'd probably say it's that Tower does not run on Linux (only on macOS and Windows), which is the reason why we can't use it on anyone's machine in our company (some of us are using Linux). So, to cut it short: Its UI is the perfect combination of simple yet powerful. In contrast: It assists where reasonable, but as said still clearly communicates what it's doing under the hood. What I especially like is the way Tower handles branches, including branching off, merging, switching branches, cleaning up branches, and so on, … This is IMHO one of the most well-done features in Tower, and it helps you to get done what you want to achieve, without getting in your way. Tower does a perfect job here: It does not hide what's happening under the hood, and this way feels familiar if you know Git pretty well, but at the same time manages to make it simple and fun to use. The challenge for any Git client is to combine ease-of-use with not abstracting away the underlying concept too much. So, Tower helps me to feel more safe and more confident in what I do, even if it's about the hard things in Git.
And this is something I can actually agree with: I typically do use the Git CLI for everyday tasks, such as adding, committing, pushing, … but when it comes to things that you don't do that often manually, I switch to Tower, which gives me the feeling of still having all the details under control, but of not running the risk of causing any damage. The Tower website states that it's not Tower or the Git CLI, but Tower and the Git CLI.
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