Frequently Asked Questions

Installation & Updates

• System requirements
• Release notes
• Beta updates
• Lost license
• Appcast URL
• Reporting crashes & hangs
• "Unidentified Developer" warning
• Downloading old versions
• Virtual machines / VMs

Tower App

• Remote repository connections
• Hook scripts
• User / author / gravatar images
• Spell check / autocorrection
• Character encoding for commit messages
• Restoring last opened windows on restart
• Untracked files with unicode names
• Notifications and how to adapt/disable them
• Dark Mode
• Customizing the diff view with themes
• Renaming "master" to "main"

Which tools, services & plugins can I use with Tower?

• Diff / Merge Tools
• Code Hosting Services
• Git-Flow
• Git LFS (Large File Storage)
• Plugins
• Custom URL Scheme
• GitHub "Clone in Desktop"

Working with git-svn

• I'm getting the following error with git-svn: "Can't locate SVN/Core.pm..."
• With git-svn, my self-signed certificate can't be validated. Can I skip validation?
• I have both a Git and a git-svn remote - and experience problems!