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Yeah, I downloaded the WC beta, and file editing does work now. it wanted me to repurchase to push, so I'll just wait until the release version is approved.
Me too, as I just purchased both for iOS8.

I'd throw money at a Kickstarter to get git. What would it take? FWIW, I have funded projects in KS in the past.

This is exactly what I'm doing as well. Not a perfect solution, but it finally gets me using the ipad to produce instead of consume.