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Working Copy
After several years of struggling to find a way to collaborate with MacStories writers on Markdown text files for article drafts, I recently realized that a solid solution has been around for a long time – private repositories on GitHub. While primarily designed for programmers, GitHub’s system based on branches, commits, and diffs can work for text as well – and with GitHub’s support for Markdown in previews and comments, I didn’t see why we couldn’t consider using it. So far, the experiment has been going well, but it wouldn’t have been as enjoyable or useful without a native app to work with GitHub on iOS: Working Copy.
Developed by Anders Borum, Working Copy is a powerful Git client (it also works with GitLab and BitBucket in addition to GitHub) that allows you to clone repositories (in layman terms, add a shared space locally on your device), commit and push changes, visualize diffs with highlights, create branches, and, more importantly, integrate with dozens of native iOS features. Borum went all-in with supporting iOS as much as possible: Working Copy works well with Split View, it has a special ‘Action’ button to insert the output of extensions into text selections (it’s great with Workflow), and it comes with a host of URL schemes for automation workflows.