Ever since I learned Terminal IDE was not supported for Android 5.0 Lollipop, I was heartbroken because there weren't any git client programs as good as git on Terminal IDE. I was using SGit but wasn't really happy because of lack of flexibility, features, and ease of use.

However, I finally found the one that works today! It's called Termux. Termux is a terminal emulator, just like Terminal IDE, but it comes with an extensive Linux package collections you can install and manage packages you want. Of course, it has git in its collection. So, I can say "bye, bye" to SGit now.

IMHO, Termux is for Android 5.0 Lollipop and above, and Terminal IDE is for Android 4.4 Kitkat and below.

Disclaimer:
The information in this site is the result of my researches in the Internet and of my experiences. It is solely used for my purpose and may not be suitable for others. I will NOT take any responsibility of end result after following these steps (although I will try to help if you send me your questions/problems).

Ok, the installation and configuration of Termux and git were easier than those of Terminal IDE in my opinion. Termux comes with a minimum base system. At this point, it doesn't do much so you'd need to install some packages. After getting Termux installed on my Galaxy Note 4, I opened it and typed below to update packages: $ apt update

With a bunch of messages, packages are updated. Then ran the following command to install git: $ apt install git

No problem here. I then installed ssh. As you may know, bitbucket.org offers two ways to access a git repository, https and ssh. I could go either way, but ssh is such a useful utility. So, I installed it at this time: $ apt install openssh

Now, the fun part starts - configuration. I've set up my web server Bit Web Server to look into /sdcard/www/ for source codes, so I tried to clone codes from my git repo, but it failed with "Permission Denied" error. Hmm... is this because Termux doesn't have write permissions for security? Well, no problem. I can seem to clone into /data/data/com.termux/home/ and copy the source codes into /sdcard/www/: $ git clone https://[user_name]@bitbucket.org/[repo_name]/[repo_name].git $ cp -r [repo_name] /sdcard/www/

After copying into the www directory, I learned that I can still run git commands like git push, git pull, etc... without any errors. Fantastic!! This means I don't need to copy back and forth between /data/data/com.termux/home/ and /sdcard/www/ every time I make updates.

Now, it's time to finish up by configuring git and Termux's user home environments.

For git, ran the following commands to set up user information: $ git config user.name "[username]" $ git config user.email "[username]@[server]"

Then edited the .bashrc file for some aliases. I created ~/.bashrc with some start up configurations for the shell, but it didn't seem to be taking it after restarting Termux. After poking around, I found a bashrc file that seems to be globally used for Termux in /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/: $ cd /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/ $ vim bash.bashrc --------------------------------- export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="[username]" export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[username]@[server]" export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL PS1='\[\e[00;32m\]\A \[\e[00;91m\]\u\[\e[01;93m\]@\h\[\e[00;37m\][\[\e[01;34m\]\w\[\e[00;37m\]]\n\[\e[47m\]\[\e[1;30m\]$\[\e[00m\] ' set -o vi

With all of these, git is ready for Android 5.0 Lollipop!

That's all!
-gibb