Pocket Git

André Restivo

About this app

Pocket Git is a powerful standalone Git client for Android with the following features:

★ Simple interface.
★ Clone repositories.
★ Support HTTP and SSH protocols.
★ Passwords and private keys (with passphrase).
★ Automatically capture Github and Bitbucket links.
★ Checkout local and remote branches, individual commits and tags.
★ Stage, unstage and commit.
★ Merge, create and delete branches.
★ Create and delete tags.
★ Create files and folders.
★ Edit files in a external editor (e.g. DroidEdit).
★ Revert changes to single files or complete working tree.
★ Push, pull and fetch from remotes.
★ Projects with more than one remote.
★ Graphical log.
★ View differences before commiting.
★ View differences for each commit.
★ View differences, for any file, between current working tree and HEAD.

Ratings and reviews

It "works" in that it can clone a repo and switch branches but that's about it. It's painfully slow, has somewhat of an unintuitive UI, and being able to commit any changes seems to take a bit of luck. The app will recognize a change has been made (blue circle with blue dot) but whether or not the commit icon shows up is a totally different story. On top of all of that this app hasn't seen an update in nearly a year even though it really needs some work. This seems to be par for the course because it was a long time before we even got this update (I had been watching it for a while before buying it because it was even buggier then). Sadly there aren't many alternatives, and a lot of them don't see updates often either, but at least they're free.

The app works, which is great. However setup is tricky with importing the private being hit and miss, I am still not sure which keygen options to use to generate an acceptable key. The interface is clean and minimal, but would be improved by incorporating a built in workflow rather then being so manual.

Couldn't get it to authenticate via password (using PAT or my password) nor by private key file - it said it was invalid even though I was able to use the same key on my laptop to authenticate and clone a repo. No error messages or logs I can look at to see what the issue might be, and no faq or troubleshooting on the minimal website. I wish I could get a refund. I trusted this product and couldn't get it to authenticate.

What's new

Small changes to improve Android Oreo support.