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Agit: Git client

Agit: Git client

Roberto Tyley

1,000 - 5,000 downloads

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Agit is a Git client for Android devices, allowing you to checkout the entire history of a Git repository while on the move, review changes and store for full offline access.

• Clone remote Git repositories onto your phone!
• Just like regular Git, the full history is stored for offline access.
• Animated Diffs - Watch diffs smoothly transition from Before to After - and back again. I'm using 'smooth' figuratively here. It's still pretty cool.
• Supports git, http, https, ssh protocols:
- see https://github.com/rtyley/agit/wiki/HTTP for details about HTTP authentication
- see https://github.com/rtyley/agit/wiki/SSH or watch http://youtu.be/6YXR-ZhZ1Qk for SSH setup instructions
• Pull-to-refresh fetching
• Currently this is a 'read-only' client. You can clone & fetch, but not commit and push. I haven't yet had time to build all the user interface around that - but I reckon implementing pinch-gesture-branch-merge would be fun.
• Periodic sync enabled on Android 2.2 and later - latest commits fetched quarter-hourly.
• Cloning substantial projects (eg Mongo, JQuery) will take a few minutes to perform - fortunately subsequent fetches will be much faster.
• Due to limitations in Java/JGit (the underlying library used by Agit for Git support) the following features are unfortunately unsupported: submodules, symbolic links.

Android devices have limited memory, and due to the nature of Git delta-packing individual large files in your repo (eg around 5MB or above) can cause unavoidable out-of-memory errors, even on modern devices. This doesn't constrain overall repository size - which can be much bigger - it only constrains the *largest files* you can have in your repository's history. More information here:

https://github.com/rtyley/agit/wiki/Memory

To help users fix the large-file repos that Agit has trouble with, I've developed a The BFG, a command line tool purpose-built for slimming down Git repositories:

http://rtyley.github.com/bfg-repo-cleaner/

The BFG is a much simpler and faster alternative to using git-filter-branch, and makes it easy to clean up repositories so that they can be read by Agit.

Tags: git client for android, client git android, git client android, git, download agit 1.27.

Recently changed in this version:

v1.38 is a bug-fix release for https://github.com/rtyley/agit/issues/92, following on from the interim solution included in v1.37. JGit has now been patched to incorporate the fix: https://git.eclipse.org/r/10810


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Comments and ratings for Agit: Git client

  • (66 stars)

    by Chris Baughman on 16/04/2013

    I tried the other clients on the store but none of them had the functionality that this one has. Worth the price. Looking forward to more.

  • (66 stars)

    by Jeff Rader on 06/04/2013

    Hi. I'm really satisfied with the cloning and pulls. I hope you will complete commit and push. Will increase to 5 stars for push.

  • (66 stars)

    by A Google User on 08/03/2013

    Clean interface. Would be even better if it had push ability.

  • (66 stars)

    by Moo Cow on 03/03/2013

    It says it supports HTTP/HTTPS, but I tried to clone my own gitolite managed HTTP-served repos, with no success. I wasn't given a prompt to enter my password, so I assume that the support for HTTP authentication is not there. Big shame.

  • (66 stars)

    by Bill Hunt on 25/02/2013

    Agit is easy to use and looks great. Cool integration of public keys through ConnectBot. Nice diff feature lets you move a slider and graphically emphasize/de-emphasize the old and new text.

  • (66 stars)

    by Bernhard Englitz on 02/02/2013

    Agit is quite a nice implementation, nicely layouted and focussed on important information. And indeed, very responsive developer!

  • (66 stars)

    by Thomas Latura on 29/01/2013

    Responsive dev, definitely worth buying. Easy to grab the repo, view it and have the files available as well.