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.

I have been looking for a way to do development on my Chromebook but source code control with GitHub was an issue. I purchased Pocket Git since I can install Android apps on my Chromebooks. Once I was mapped Pocket Git to the shared Pictures folder I was able clone easily. I was a bit puzzled on how to add files until I reread the manual and the key was a long hold on the file to add. Once I did that I could add all files in a folder. Commit and push was easily done. Very nice app!!!

What's new

Small changes to improve Android Oreo support.