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by mikekchar 3814 days ago
Just a quick comment: reading the article and also going to the Git2Go website I had a considerable amount of trouble understanding what this app does and why I would want it. It clones git repositories... where? To the phone? Why?

Not trying to be confrontational, just trying to be helpful ;-) If you could put some use cases front and center on your website and then obviously link to them from articles like this one, it would make it much easier for people like me to evaluate if I want to take a look at it.

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Yes, it enables you to clone Git repositories to your phone for you to change files, make new branches and push and pull changes.

Possible use cases: - make a quick edit to a pull request you made - blog using Jekyll - see what your team has been up to while you are on your way - look at code where a computer is just not convenient to use, e.g. while commuting

Just to be sure we are not talking on iPhone only, as it is a universal app it runs on iPad and particularly the iPad pro too. The iPad pro focuses on producing rather than consuming and Git2Go fits perfectly into this scheme.