Alternative git workflow for android

[samchencode]

I have a very uncommon situation. I'm running GrapheneOS on Android with multiple user profiles. I ran into many obstacles with the android workflow proposed.

1. It turns out Termux cannot run on users other than "Owner" (admin) user and I don't want anything running on admin.
2. If I used Termux on Owner profile, all git commands would try to resolve the realpath to storage/shared/Documents. In doing so it would get to the /storage/emulated directory and fail because proot is unable to access that directory (can only access /storage/emulated/0). Not sure why this wasn't happening on stock android before I switched to GrapheneOS.

Solution: I installed mgit from fdroid, set up ssh keys, and set the default git directory to /storage/emulated/{user_id}/Documents and cloned from git into that directory. Then I set the Logseq graph to .../Documents/{repo_name}. mgit allows me to push and pull commits, albeit requiring me to start the mgit app.

I was surprised there was another git workflow on Android that did not involve typing code into Termux, so I thought I'd share.