Tower Tips and Tricks (part 1): drag and drop

In this short series of blog posts we’ll present you some powerful Tower features you might not know about yet. Tower lets you speed up many workflows by simply using drag and drop. No need to use the menu options. Below you can find eight useful drag and drop features that will take your Tower skills to the next level.  

 

1. Merge

Drag and drop a branch on your HEAD while holding down the CMD key to merge.

 

2. Rebase

Hold down the OPTION key to use rebase instead.

 

3. Push to Remote

Drag a local branch and drop it onto a remote branch to push your changes.

 

4. Pull from Remote

Drag a remote branch and drop it onto your local HEAD branch to pull changes.

 

5. Apply Stash

Drag a stash onto your local HEAD branch to apply the stash.

 

6. Create new Branch

Drag a local branch onto “BRANCHES” to create a new branch based on the dragged
one.

 

7. Publish Branch

Drag a local branch onto a remote repository item to publish the branch on that
remote repository.

 

8. Track Remote Branch

Drag a remote branch onto “BRANCHES” to create a local tracking branch from the dragged remote one.