Tower vs pre-commit by Yelp

Tower vs pre-commit by Yelp: What are the differences?

What is Tower? The most powerful Git client for Mac & Windows. Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.

What is pre-commit by Yelp? A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

Tower and pre-commit by Yelp are primarily classified as "Source Code Management Desktop Apps" and "Git" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Tower are:

• Clone & create repos with a click - Manage your GitHub, Bitbucket & Beanstalk accounts from within Tower
• Open repos quickly - Tower's "Quick Open" dialog finds and opens repositories in no time
• Automate the boring stuff - Fetching and stashing are automatically done for you, if you wish

On the other hand, pre-commit by Yelp provides the following key features:

• node
• python
• ruby

pre-commit by Yelp is an open source tool with 3.09K GitHub stars and 234 GitHub forks. Here's a link to pre-commit by Yelp's open source repository on GitHub.