Feature Overview

Clone & create repos with a click

Manage your GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps & Beanstalk accounts from within Tower
Learn more about Remote Services integration

Automate the boring stuff

Fetching and stashing are automatically done for you, if you wish

Clone in the background

Downloading large projects happens in the background, while you work

Multiple windows

Have multiple projects open side-by-side

All files or only changed ones

View all files in a folder structure or only changed files as a flat list

Integrated diff viewer

See staged / unstaged changes in integrated diff views

Commit changes & amend commits

Staging Area

Precisely define what shall be committed - by staging selected files, parts of files or even individual lines

Discard changes

Discard unwanted local changes in a file, even on a single line basis

Revert files to previous states

Ignore files

Resolve merge conflicts

A dedicated conflict wizard helps you solve conflicts in an easy, visual way

Patches

Create and apply patches

Add, delete, rename, untrack, etc. files

GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab…

…and other popular services like Azure DevOps and Beanstalk work flawlessly with Tower
Learn more about Remote Services integration

Clone repositories quickly

No more wrestling with usernames, passwords, URLs and tokens: repositories can be cloned with just a single click

Create repositories just as quickly

New repositories in your accounts can be created from within Tower

Create, merge, comment…

…close and inspect Pull Requests from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps right in Tower
Learn more about Pull Request management

All repositories in one place

Keep track of your repos by grouping related ones, and by filtering or searching

Add / clone / create

Add existing repos, clone from remote servers, or create new ones

Open quickly

Find and open repositories lightning-fast, per drag & drop or without touching the mouse

Save your current working state

Save changes temporarily to a stash without committing and get a clean working copy (e.g. to work on an urgent bug)

Reapply stashes

Even parts of a stash can be applied individually

Inspect stashed changes with integrated diff views

Snapshots

Stashes that are automatically re-applied to the working copy to quickly try out an idea

git-flow

Use the popular “git-flow” branching model right from within Tower

Git LFS

Git Large File Storage can be used out of the box, without further installations

User Profiles

Add and manage different profiles to quickly switch your committer identity

Integration of external diff apps

View diffs in Kaleidoscope, BBEdit, Changes, FileMerge, Araxis Merge, TextWrangler, TextMate and more

View diffs in Araxis Merge, Beyond Compare, Tortoise Compare, WinMerge and more

SSH and GPG support

Set and manage SSH and GPG keys to sign (and verify) commits and tags

GPG support

Set and manage GPG keys to sign (and verify) commits and tags

Design & usability

Work with an app that was created to make things quicker & easier

Undo everything

Restore old revisions, revert commits, undo local changes, or recover deleted commits
Learn more about Undo

Drag and drop

Many complex tasks can be performed easily via drag and drop
Learn more about Drag and Drop

Conflict wizard

Solve merge conflicts easily in a visual way

Unpushed & unpulled commits

Instantly see which commits haven't been synced with the remote, yet

Learn version control with Tower

A step-by-step guide for beginners (150 pages) helps you learn Git with Tower

Extensive documentation

An in-depth help book goes way beyond ordinary "documentation"

Great customer support

Friendly email support is here to help

Push, pull, and fetch from remote repositories

See unsynced commits

Quickly see which commits haven't been pushed or pulled, yet

Always up-to-date

New changes from remote servers are downloaded automatically for you in the background

Easily create, delete and rename branches, tags, and remotes

Extensive branching support

Push, pull, publish, track, checkout, or create new branches (from tags, commits, other branches)

Merge and rebase support

Drag and drop

Simply use drag and drop to merge, pull, create, and more
Learn more about Drag and Drop

Export files from a branch or tag

History for everything

See the history for any branch, tag, or even stash

Alternative view layouts

Configure sorting, tree graph, and display size of commits for a perfect view

All the details

See everything from metadata (like author, date, and message) to a precise diff view

Undo existing commits

Revert certain commits or roll back your current branch to a previous commit
Learn more about Undo

File History

Understand how a single file changed over time

Interactive Rebase

Edit and restructure your commit history, simply via drag and drop

Browse any revision's files

See how your files looked - at any point in time

Filter & search

Blame view

See by whom and when each line in a file was changed

Cherry-pick for integration of individual commits

Reveal in History

Locate any commit, branch, or tag in the History view

Keep external subprojects / libraries cleanly separated with submodules

Fetch, update, open, and manage submodules directly in Tower

Restore lost commits and branches

Git's Reflog helps you undo and restore virtually anything

No Git installation required