How to make ‘Swiftception’ happen on your iOS device

Apple just recently finally open-sourced Swift and the internet (or more specifically GitHub) went crazy.

While it’s certainly nice to view the repo in Safari or clone it for contributing purposes to your computer, I think it’s way nicer (and somehow crazy) to clone a Swift repo in a Swift-based application like Git2Go on iOS and continue from there.

And here’s how to do it:

Make sure you have our latest update (1.3) installed.
Open any public Swift repository in your mobile Safari.

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Swift package manager by @mxcl

3. Open the Safari action sheet from there and chose ‘Clone to Git2Go’.

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Make sure to move the ‘Clone’ action to the front for the future

4. Watch the repo getting cloned into a native Swift app.

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5. Open up Git2Go and find the cloned repo in your local repositories — ready for exploration.

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And if you’ve already forked a Swift repository into your own account, you can even contribute Swift code from an app written in Swift.

The future, is amazing, isn’t it?