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Working Copy Enterprise app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 1824 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Anders Borum
14.99 USD
Current version: 3.3.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 03 Mar 2015
App size: 55.37 Mb

Access Git repositories on the go. Clone, edit, commit and push while allowing other apps access to repositories.

Git is a important part of our work-life and iOS can take part in this. The ability to commit even when offline has added utility on a device that moves in and out of network coverage. Cloning repositories gets you a local copy on your iOS device with commits for all branches. You can browse the content from within the app and make changes. Other applications supporting the Files app, WebDAV or x-callback-url has access to these files. Changes made can be committed and the commits can in turn be pushed back to the remote.

The idea of doing significant programming on iOS might seem far fetched when you are used to a large screen, a physical keyboard and a full IDE. But just as it turned out that not every email is serious prose, then not everything that goes on in Git is significant programming. Sometimes you just want to update a TODO file or make adjustments to your Jekyll site. Sometimes you just need to add a file the designer sent after hours. 

If you ever make reminders about small things to do with the code-base, then you should give Working Copy a try. You will spend less time moving stuff around and you will get much better commit messages when you write them for fixes that are still fresh in your mind. You wont be leaving your computer behind any time soon, but sometimes it is faster to just fix things with the device in your hand.

When you do need to perform real work on iOS, Working Copy is a powerful tool. Editor has syntax highlighting for more than 50 programming languages and a built-in color picker. Preview images, Markdown and HTML files with a Javascript console pointing to errors in your code. Create new branches and merge or rebase them back, with a brilliant merge-tool for handling conflicts.

Even if you never edit a line of code on iOS, Working Copy is a great companion for reviewing and discussing code. Repositories are cross indexed and with powerful fuzzy search you can quickly jump from a symbol to the declaration or reverse from the declaration to all usages. A graph of your commits lets you zoom out for a overview of of the commit tree or zoom in for specifics about each commit, with speed and beauty you won’t find in desktop Git applications. Review the changes your files have gone through with a diff viewer that is great for text and images. There is even hex-dump mode for that obscure occasion.

Working Copy Enterprise has the same features as Working Copy and includes the in-app purchase for pushing commits back to remote servers. This makes it easier for IT departments to deploy the application to employee devices. If you are purchasing Working Copy for yourself, there is no advantage or disadvantage in picking the Enterprise version. Note that repositories in one app will not show up in the other.

Pros and cons of Working Copy Enterprise app for iPhone and iPad

Working Copy Enterprise app good for

This is a very nice implementation on iOS. Create local repositories for local development. Get and push to remote repositories.
Ive used this solidly for the past week to make small changes to websites and its proven to be perfect. Its actually even more full featured than I expected from the screenshots. And with used in conjunction with Textastic, you can turn your iPad into a functional development platform.
Excellent product. I would love to see some improvements to the editor though. Could there be some options for adding the closing quote, brace, etc?
This app lets me connect with my GitHub and TFS (visualstudio.com) Git Repos. As a result I swapped all my projects to Git in TFS and get to finally do some real work on my iPad. Im just getting started with this app (been using it for a few weeks) but it is apps like these that actually bring me closer to work on this iPad (trying to do a little coding). As most of my work exists on the cloud, I can manage my repo, do some light adjustments, push the changes and evaluate right from my iPad!

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Ill keep this review up to date as things change. Working great! iOS 9.1 beta 2 iPhone 6+ You can contact me on Twitter @radls1
The integration with Textastic was just what I was looking for. Worth the $10.
I just got this and I am so excited. Its exactly what I was looking for. It even supports submodules! Its very well made with a lot of thought put into it. There is an integrated text editor that allows it to be customized for a variety of languages. The file status and diff is very we done. This is actually a full IDE on an iPhone. All you need is a cloud server and you are ready to start developing anything you can imagine on an iPhone. I just did my first publish through continuous deployment! All I was really looking for was something that let me edit a file and commit and this is so much better. Its definitely worth 15 bucks.