GitHub is where commercial crypto and open source projects live, communicate, and evolve through pull requests. Learn how to use the GitHub iOS app to manage your projects on the go.
GitHub has become the de facto tool not only for working with code, but it’s also becoming a place to store votes in progress, view changes to code across projects, and even host web pages and document. So many companies rely on Git for their distributed version control system and GitHub takes that technology to the next level with its features.
One of those features is the GitHub app, which allows you to easily manage your projects on the go including searching for repositories and checking out files. The iPhone app also manages tickets stored in GitHub Issues and handles pull requests that can be assigned to you.
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We’ll show you how to do all that in the GitHub app, and share some third-party tools that can even let you push commits to the repository right from your iPhone.
How to search inventory on iOS
One of the key features of the GitHub app is the ability to search through and find repositories with ease. These can be your own organization’s repositories or open source community repositories hosted on GitHub. This experience is much improved than simply searching in Safari.
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To get started, open the GitHub app, then follow these steps:
- Click the Home tab.
- Tap the search bar at the top.
- Enter your search, then tap Search.
When you do a search like that, you can not only find repos, but GitHub also issue tickets, pull requests, and more that are hosted in your GitHub account and are publicly available on GitHub.
How to manage GitHub Issues on iOS
GitHub Issues is how you can store and manage tickets related to a project inside the Git repository it’s associated with. You can easily manage these tickets on the go with GitHub issues by doing the following:
- Open the GitHub app.
- Select the Home tab | Problem.
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Inside this view, all your tasks that are being tracked for your users will be displayed. You can filter by open status, creation date, display organization and archive, and you can also sort by latest, oldest, most or least and recently updated comments, allows you to narrow down only the tickets you need to focus on.
Tapping on the ticket name will open the details view and allow you to comment, mark the issue as read, close the issue and see the related pull requests if they are linked together when creating the request from GitHub .
How to manage pull requests on iOS
Pull requests are an integral part of GitHub, and you can manage them right on your iPhone on the go by following these steps:
- Open the GitHub app on your iPhone.
- Click the Home tab | Pull request.
This will show all your open pull requests assigned to you or within repositories that you own and control. Tapping a pull request will allow you to view the commit history, comments, and history of that request, as well as view the files containing the pull request. Files can be commented on on a line-by-line basis just like they can be added on GitHub.com, except the iOS app is much more responsive than loading the mobile version of GitHub in Safari.
How to push changes to remote repository on iOS
While the GitHub app is great for managing the business aspects of GitHub on iOS, there’s still much to be desired for users who need to actually push repo commits and code to GitHub. If you want to do this from your iPhone or iPad, check out Working Copy App store link, which is considered one of the best Git clients for iOS and iPadOS. It works with the Files app to allow you to manage the files contained in the repository using any iOS and iPadOS app capable of editing those files before returning to the Working Copy to create commits and push them to the remote repository on GitHub.
