Tower Repositories (v1.0)

[cjlucas]

Quickly access your Tower git repositories

 

I finally got around to checking out Alfred today, and I was so blown away by the workflows feature that I decided to write one.

 

 

 

Github: https://github.com/cjlucas/tower-alfred-workflow

 

The latest packaged workflow can be found here.

 

I will be checking for bug reports here as well as on Github.  It'll be easier to diagnose bugs if I have your Tower bookmark's file as well (it can be found here: ~/Library/Application Support/Tower/Bookmarks.plist). If you'd prefer to not have it posted in public, you can send me a message on here or on Github.

Edited March 27, 2013 by cjlucas

[lmartins]

Really nice, and quite fast too. Thanks.

[cjlucas]

Updated to v1.1 (March 27, 2013)

• improvement: sort bookmarks as they're sorted in Tower.app
  
• improvement: search repository paths in addition to bookmark names
  

 

I'll take suggestions if anyone has any.

[mwaterfall]

Great workflow! Any chance you could support updating via the Alleyoop workflow?

[cjlucas]

That'd certainly be handy, it'll be included in v1.2.

[cjlucas]

v1.2 (March 29, 2013)

• alleyoop support
  
• speed improvements
  

[michaelwills]

How did I miss this! I have used the SourceTree one but I primarily use Tower. So I asked the Tower folks if there was an interest/opportunity for someone to put this together and they sent me here. Good stuff! And very fast. Nice work!

[cjlucas]

v1.3 (May 16, 2014)

  - Added support for finding Tower.app in subdirectories of /Applications

[cjlucas]

v2.0 (July 22, 2014)

  - Added support for Tower 2

  - Removed support for Tower 1

[michaelwills]

Hey there @cjlucas. Thanks for making this. I used it quite a bit with v1. V2 has updated and moved some things around even though the original plist is available still. I see "~/Library/Application Support/com.fournova.Tower2/bookmarks.plist" but haven't had time to go through and update how tower.py searches it. The database is also there: "~/Library/Application Support/Tower/UserRepositories.sqlite3". I won't have any time real soon but if I do get to it I'll submit a pull request on your github repo.

[cjlucas]

Shame on me for rushing that fix out. I've re-released 2.0 with support for the new plist format. Everything should be good now. Though it is strange that Tower 2 now uses Core Data, but is still supporting bookmarks.plist.

 

Let me know if there are any issues.

[michaelwills]

Will do. They are very responsive and may answer that. In fact I first saw a workflow like this for SourceTree which I also use but I prefer Tower. And much more so now with v2.

 

* disclaimer: I don't work for Tower but I have submitted many reports.

 

When I asked about searching repos like that for Tower they pointed me here. The only changes I made besides making the keyword shorter, like you did for your v2, was to add CMD to browse in Alfred, SHIFT to reveal in Finder, ALT to open in Terminal, and CTRL to open in Sublime. Very helpful.

[michaelwills]

Just created a couple pull requests. Thanks again for putting this together. 

[cjlucas]

I updated to Tower 2.0.1, and it seems like bookmarks.plist doesn't seem to be updating anymore. Is anyone else having this issue?

[michaelwills]

Creating a repo will not show it immediately within Alfred App as I believe it updates after a restart

[cjlucas]

I've tried restarting as well, no luck. I Even wiped out the folder in Application Support to start from scratch. The plist isn't even being created anymore.

Edited July 27, 2014 by cjlucas

[michaelwills]

Were you checking this file?

 

~/Library/Application Support/com.fournova.Tower2/bookmarks.plist

[cjlucas]

Yep.

[michaelwills]

Hmm are you on build 238?

[michaelwills]

Just pulled a new repo. Anything in Alfred's debug log for you?

[cjlucas]

I don't have anything to test with since I didn't make a backup of my bookmarks. Is something broken?

 

And ya, I'm on the latest public build.

Edited July 28, 2014 by cjlucas

[michaelwills]

It's working as expected for me.

[cjlucas]

- v2.1 (August 10, 2014)

  - Folder support

[michaelwills]

Thanks for the update! Was their a specific reason you went to ruby instead? Just curious. Perhaps the fuzzy search capability? 

[cjlucas]

Nothing was really gained by switching (though it might be slightly faster). The Alfred helper library I was using had bugs I didn't want to deal with anymore.