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What do you mean by "normal Linux apps"? GTK+? Qt? Who'd want to use an application that is completely not optimised for a small touch screen?

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A lot of Android tablets get keyboards and even mice plugged into them.

Well, I'm happy with running the basic stuff using GNURoot. (I have no intention of running more complicate GUI apps anyway, even though that should be possible as well.)

How well does the git client work with that? I've been wishing I could tinker from my phone but all the Android github apps don't actually pull repos.

GNURoot provides a chroot of Debian/Gentoo/Fedora etc so you can install whatever you want in there, including the git command-line client.

You can also create such a chroot manually:

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid

Or go slightly further:

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile#Articles

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