Create new branches and merge or rebase them back, with a brilliant merge-tool for handling conflicts. Preview images, Markdown and HTML files with a Javascript console pointing to errors in your code. Editor has syntax highlighting for more than 50 programming languages and a built-in color picker. When you do need to perform real work on iOS, Working Copy is a powerful tool. 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.
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. If you ever make reminders about small things to do with the code-base, then you should give Working Copy a try. Sometimes you just need to add a file the designer sent after hours.
Sometimes you just want to update a TODO file or make adjustments to your Jekyll site. But just as it turned out that not every email is serious prose, then not everything that goes on in Git is significant programming.
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. Changes made can be committed and the commits can in turn be pushed back to the remote. Other applications supporting the Files app, WebDAV or x-callback-url has access to these files. You can browse the content from within the app and make changes. Cloning repositories gets you a local copy on your iOS device with commits for all branches.
The ability to commit even when offline has added utility on a device that moves in and out of network coverage. Git is a important part of our work-life and iOS can take part in this. Clone, edit, commit and push while allowing other apps access to repositories. Note that you don't have to use a git GUI client in fact, we recommend that you don't until you get comfortable with Git in general.Access Git repositories on the go.
Find out what's available by searching Google for git gui macOS. There are a variety of Git GUI clients For OS X (aka, macOS). These commands need to be issued from an existing git repository, which we'll cover soon. To run gitk, type gitk in your command line or terminal. If you are on Windows or Linux, you can use gitk or git-gui, which both come with the official git release package available at /download.
We highly recommend first getting familiar with git from its command line interface before jumping into a GUI tool. That means anything you can do using a GUI, you can also do using the git command line application.
All of the commands that the GUI issues are relayed to the underlying git command line application. The important thing to know is that a git GUI application is simply a layer between the user and git. There are also graphical user interface, or GUI, applications available for viewing and maintaining your repositories, which we will occasionally use to see a visual representation of the changes we have made. Interacting With gitįor the most part, we will be using the command line to interact with git repositories. You should see something like git version 1.8.3.2. From the command line, run: $ git -version If you're using Cloud9, git should already be installed.īefore we continue, let's verify git is working. If you haven't installed git yet, visit the download page and run the installer for your operating system.
Now that we understand what git is, and why we want to use it, we need to install it first.