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Comment by jwr

This is just as good a place to write this as any:

There is a use case which seems to be missed by all git-related tools: Reading Code on Github.

I would really like to have a tool that would allow me to easily browse my starred repos on GitHub, on my iPad, in offline mode (one-click update of all repos please). And by "browse" I mean read code, so the main focus is not on tags/branches, but viewing files and changesets.

There are plenty of tools that try to let you edit code, access repos, browse tags/branches, but they all assume that you are willing to spend time manually cloning/syncing/resyncing/downloading/uploading repos. This quickly gets tedious (Textastic on iPad is a good example).

Reading code is important, and it seems to have been forgotten.

parent jwr 8 years ago

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