Working Copy - Powerful Git client
By Anders Borum
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Description
Access Git repositories on the go. Clone, edit, commit and push while allowing other apps access to repositories.
Git is a important part of our work-life and iOS can take part in this. The ability to commit even when offline has added utility on a device that moves in and out of network coverage. Cloning repositories gets you a local copy on your iOS device with commits for all branches. You can browse the content from within the app and make changes. Other applications supporting the document picker, WebDAV or x-callback-url has access to these files. Changes made can be committed and the commits can in turn be pushed back to the remote.
The idea of doing significant programming on iOS might seem far fetched when you are used to a large screen, a physical keyboard and a full IDE. But just as it turned out that not every email is serious prose, then not everything that goes on in Git is significant programming. Sometimes you just want to update a TODO file or make adjustments to your Jekyll site. Sometimes you just need to add a file the designer sent after hours.
If you ever make reminders about small things to do with the code-base, then you should give Working Copy a try. You will spend less time moving stuff around and you will get much better commit messages when you write them for fixes that are still fresh in your mind. You won't be leaving your computer behind any time soon, but sometimes it is faster to just fix things with the device in your hand.
When you do need to perform real work on iOS, Working Copy is a powerful tool. Editor has syntax highlighting for more than 40 programming languages and a built-in color picker. Preview images, Markdown and HTML files with a Javascript console pointing to errors in your code. Create new branches and merge or rebase them back, with a brilliant merge-tool for handling conflicts.
Even if you never edit a line of code on iOS, Working Copy is a great companion for reviewing and discussing code. A graph of your commits lets you zoom out for a overview of of the commit tree or zoom in for specifics about each commit, with speed and beauty you won’t find in desktop Git applications. Review the changes your files have gone through with a diff viewer that is great for text and images. There is even hex-dump mode for that obscure occasion.
Working Copy is a free download but you need to pay to unlock the ability to push commits back to remote servers. There is no venture capital, large company or ads funding development and your support through in-app purchase directly sustains further development.
What's New in Version 2.9.0
Branch handling has been massively improved with the ability to rebase commits from other branches into your current branch to avoid merge commits. You will be allowed to rewrite commits (during rebase) that have not yet been pushed to a remote, or individual branches can be configured to allow history rewriting even after commits have been pushed to a remote. When branches are configured for history rewriting it will be force-pushed to the remote, which is something you should never do without making sure no-one else is doing work on the same branch.
When deleting branches you will be prompted about commits that haven’t been pushed or merged yet and from the list of branches you can push, such that it is now possible to push non-current branches.
Settings page has a gallery of apps that work well with Working Copy with tips, tricks and workflows. If you have read through the Users’ guide this might be old news, but I hope it becomes clear for everyone how much more powerful Working Copy is, when combined with other apps.
Faster loading of repositories on startup. The app is ready for use almost immediately.
Support for Taptic feedback on iPhone 7.
You can export the private part of Secure Shell keys.
Working Copy is smarter about displaying small images and will zoom to fit available space with a nearest-neighbour filtering such that individual pixels are crisp and without blurring.
Console log shows where log statements are made in the code and you can tap to jump to location in local source file. Exceptions in the log have supported this all along.
Syntax highlighting for Prolog.
When device is configured for “Reduced Motion” animations and transitions are kept at a minimum.
Fixed bug where selecting text when looking at files in readonly mode would scroll to the top of the file.
Lots of smaller improvements and fixes.
- Free
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Oct 10, 2016
- Version: 2.9.0
- Size: 64.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Anders Borum
- © Applied Phasor 2016
Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.2 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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