RE: Best practices for working with Git in Toad For Oracle?

For Toad 12.12 and earlier, you can also work around the clone/pull/push issue by setting up External commands within Toad to transfer changes between your local Git repository and the server's Git repository.  Matthew Phan wrote a blog article here that may help you in creating that:

http://www.toadworld.com/products/toad-for-oracle/b/weblog/archive/2017/10/31/binding-toad-automation-and-external-tools-to-your-custom-icons-and-keystrokes

-John