Clone Git repository into iPhone

Question

I want to develop an iOS application that executes the git clone command to basically get a repository on the phone. After that the only command is git fetch so I will periodically update the files. After those 2 commands nothing more is required. just local parsing on the files.

My question is can I do that on iOS? I had a similar application working on ubuntu, and it was quite easy to do using 'git .....' commands

Answer 1

you cant launch other apps / processes on ios so you cant call the git executable.

BUT there is libgit2 - ac static lib you can use in your ios app to work with git: see http://libgit2.github.com

there is a objC wrapper that makes it a breeze to use: see https://github.com/libgit2/objective-git

Answer 2

You can use Git on iOS via the iSH app .

Perhaps not directly useful to you, but I'm writing this here because I earlier found this thread when googling how to git push / git pull on an iPhone.