Forker

A Git client for Android. Forked from SGit. The only reason for this fork is because original seems to be abandoned.

Notes

• All repositories are stored in [sdcard dir]/Android/data/ch.phcoder.jigit/files/[repo name]. If you want to delete this app, you can manually backup repositories from this location.
• The GitHub repo of this project is: phcoder/SGit.
• If you encounter any issues (bugs, crashes, etc.) and want to help improve this project, please open an issue on GitHub describing: what the issues are; and how they were caused, to allow for re-creation and fixing of bugs.
• This app is for Android v4.x and later. 4.4 or later or recommended, earlier versions work with reduced functionality and possibly more bugs.

Supported Features

New in 1.4.1

• Bug fixes.
• Improved responsiveness of commit search.

New in 1.4

• Convenient way to edit .git/config
• Possibility to override username and email on per-repo basis
• Commit search
• Dark theme
• See commits touching a given file.

New in 1.3

• Multiline commit message amend
• Support for setting commit author
• Force pull and ability to choose remote for pull
• Force push and ability to choose remote for push (by Benjamin Tan)
• Rebase on non-local branch
• Show staged and unstaged diff.
• Added three different version of deleting file or directory, delete from working directory , delete from index or from both (by liscju)
• Renaming of repositories (by liscju)

Added in Forker:

• SSH key generation and management
• SSH keys are stored in memory only this app can use.
• Branch management
• Several bug fixes

Inherited from SGit:

• Create local repositories
• Clone remote repositories
• Pull from origin
• Delete local repositories
• Browse files
• Browse commit messages (short)
• Checkout branches and tags
• HTTP/HTTPS/SSH are supported (without private key passphrase)
• Username/Password authentication is supported
• Search local repositories
• Private keys management
• Manually choose code language
• git diff between commits (to be enhanced)
• Import copied repositories (that is, you can copy a repository from computer and import it)
• Checkout remote branches
• Merge branches
• Push merged content
• Edit file (you must have some app that can edit file)
• Commit and push changed files (commit all changes)
• Committer information
• Prompt for password
• Choose not to save password and username (will not be saved in disk but may be temporarily saved in memory)
• git status
• Cancel when cloning
• Add modified file to stage
• git rebase
• git cherrypick
• git checkout <file> (reset changes of a file)

Quick start

Clone a remote repository

1. Click on the + icon to add a new repository.
2. Enter remote URL (see URL format below).
3. Enter local repository name - note that this is not a path since Forker stores all repositories in the same directory on the mobile device.
4. Username - username to use to clone the remote repo.
5. Password - password to use to clone the remote repo.
6. Click the Clone button.
7. If all the credentials are correct, Forker will download the repository (all branches) to your device.

Create a local repository

1. Click on the + icon to add a new repository.
2. Click on Init Local to create a local repository.
3. Enter the name for this repository when prompted.
4. A local repo will be created.

URL format

SSH URLs

• SSH running on standard port (22): ssh://username@server_name/path/to/repo
• SSH running on non-standard port: ssh://username@server_name:port/path/to/repo
• username is needed - by default, Forker tries to connect as root.

HTTP(S) URLs

• HTTP(S) URL: https://server_name/path/to/repo

To Do List

• Private key passphrase
• Commits related to a file
• Commit graph (low priority)

License

GPLv3