Well, for one thing, they both have very pretty UIs that are severely dysfunctional in exactly the same way: you can only have one window open at a time, which means you can't use the app to look at two repos at the same time.
For seriously using git for development, I find that pretty nuts.
Every time I want to browse a different repository, I have to destroy all the work I did opening the window for the current repo and drilling down through the UI to get to the part I am interested in? Seems crazy.
I think more apps would do well to learn from the windowing strategy of Mail.app on Mac. It too has a monolithic main window where everything happens--but Cmd-Opt-N creates a "New Viewer Window". Another complete window with all the power of the first. Search for foo in window 1, read mail list bar in window 2.
This sort of arrangement would make Github for Mac (and Tower) worth looking at.
As it is, if I have to throw away several seconds of work everysingletimeIopenanotherrepo, those seconds are going to add up -- and annoy me -- very quickly.
(By the way, just to check, I tried out making a few copies of the app and opening multiple repos that way. Just like Tower, the app started to puke modal error dialogs and show blank windows, so that doesn't work.)
For seriously using git for development, I find that pretty nuts.
Every time I want to browse a different repository, I have to destroy all the work I did opening the window for the current repo and drilling down through the UI to get to the part I am interested in? Seems crazy.
I think more apps would do well to learn from the windowing strategy of Mail.app on Mac. It too has a monolithic main window where everything happens--but Cmd-Opt-N creates a "New Viewer Window". Another complete window with all the power of the first. Search for foo in window 1, read mail list bar in window 2.
This sort of arrangement would make Github for Mac (and Tower) worth looking at.
As it is, if I have to throw away several seconds of work every single time I open another repo, those seconds are going to add up -- and annoy me -- very quickly.
(By the way, just to check, I tried out making a few copies of the app and opening multiple repos that way. Just like Tower, the app started to puke modal error dialogs and show blank windows, so that doesn't work.)