Shallow Cloning Large Repos With Towergit: Fetch Recent History Only
Towergit's shallow clone lets you fetch only recent revisions, saving time and disk space here's how to use it verify depth and restore full history when needed.
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Tower Interactive Rebase vs. Git CLI: Choosing How to Clean Up Local History
Deciding between Tower's Interactive Rebase and git rebase -i for cleaning up local feature-branch history: constraints, a comparison table, trade-offs, and a validated workflow.
Choosing Merge Strategy in Tower: Merge Commit vs Rebase vs Squash
Pick merge commit, rebase-and-merge, or squash merge in Tower based on sharing, auditability, and history policy. Compare trade-offs and validate topology before pushing.
Cleaning Up WIP Commits with Tower's Interactive Rebase (Without Fearing the Undo)
Tower's drag-and-drop interactive rebase and broad Cmd/Ctrl+Z undo make local history cleanup approachable — here's how to use them safely, and where the GUI's convenience ends.
gitUse Towergit’s Stash to Pull Remote Changes Without Losing Your Work
When you have uncommitted edits and need to fetch new commits, Towergit’s Stash lets you temporarily set them aside. This guide walks through the steps, shows a worked example, and explains the trade‑offs.
Evaluating Towergit Features When Documentation Is Scarce
A practical framework for assessing Towergit's supported Git operations without relying on marketed claims, using verification steps and workflow testing.
Perform an Interactive Rebase in Tower to Clean Up Commit History
Learn how to start, resolve conflicts, and finish an interactive rebase in Tower, with steps to verify the result and safely push the rewritten history.
Squashing Commits Visually with Tower 4’s Interactive Rebase
Learn how to clean up a feature branch’s commit history using Tower 4’s drag‑and‑drop interactive rebase, with a step‑by‑step example and notes on limitations.
Using Tower's Undo to Reverse Local Git Operations Safely
Tower's Undo button reverses local commits, rebases, merges, and discarded changes with one keystroke. Learn how the undo stack works, where it stops (pushes), and how to fall back to the reflog.