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Directly open github repo through repo link #1355
Description
I'm very fond of Gitpod, which supports opening a GitHub repo by prefixing any public GitHub or GitLab URL with gitpod.io/# in the browser.
e.g.: https://www.gitpod.io/#https://github.com/cdr/code-server
I want to add this feature to this project but have no idea how and where to start.
My initial thought is to add a rule to the URL parser in the patch, once the URL matched, execute "git clone" and then open.
But later I realized this feature requires git, would it be better to implement this feature as an extension? If yes, use UriHandler API?
or any other better solution?
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code-asher commentedon Feb 12, 2020
This would be cool. I don't think we'd need to patch anything to get it working. Maybe if the
?folderparameter is something likegit://github.com/cdr/code-serverURL we clone before starting VS Code. We need to fix #1294 first though.JalinWang commentedon Feb 14, 2020
Is it a good way to execute "git clone" in server.preHandleRequest() and then modify MainServer.handleRequest() to call getRoot() with proper path?
Pass a repo link in a form like http://code-server-domain.com/github?xxxxx
P.S.:
class Server and class MainServer refer to the ones in https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/master/src/node/server.ts
code-asher commentedon Feb 14, 2020
dougnukem commentedon Mar 11, 2020
Sail by coder supports this use case with the browser extension:
kylecarbs commentedon Apr 14, 2020
Closing for now.
We don't have immediate plans for this within code-server.