Suggestion: Allow upload to repository

[smbkr]

By @shanalikhan

Before starting this feature, Settings Sync required code requires refactoring. You can take #937 as a baseline for refactoring to start working.

Following are the feature i see for git sync.

1. It should ask either backup needs to be saved on Github Gist or simple Git Repository.
2. Once the User select the Git Repo, it should setup accordingly.
3. Provide user option to either use Github or GitLab and create a repository from there by their profile tokens.
4. By Download means, user can do `git pull` forcefully. 
5. By Upload means, user can do `git push` forcefully.
6. Allow user to setup branches or profiles like `master` and `office` and keep the selected profile / branch in Sync Global Settings and download/ upload to that branch.
7. When user is switched to Gist, it should not upload the Git folder there.
8. Support Github and Gitlab Enterprise versions
9. Complete New UI with integrated with above features to allow users to change via UI

Originally by @smbkr

It would be useful to be able to upload the settings to a repo instead of a gist, the way that JetBrains IDEs sync, so that the changes could be versioned and rolled back as desired.

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[shanalikhan]

#396 (comment)

Thanks, will look into this later on.

[chris-c-thomas]

Also like this idea.

[colonelpopcorn]

I thought gists were repos.

Edit: I commented on this issue because I think it could be useful to merge when downloading instead of just clobbering the local configuration. Is this feature on the roadmap for this project? Would you consider a pull request?

[shanalikhan]

Is this feature on the roadmap for this project?

Yes, but not in short time. Will work on it later on.

Would you consider a pull request?

Definitely, I will more happy to accept PR. But anyone wants to send PR it would be great to discuss as its currently tightly coupled with GIST logics.

[shanalikhan]

Following are the feature i see for git sync.

1. It should ask either backup needs to be saved on Github Gist or simple Git Repository.
2. Once the User select the Git Repo, it should setup accordingly.
3. Provide user option to either use Github or GitLab and create a repository from there by their profile tokens.
4. By Download means, user can do git pull forcefully.
5. By Upload means, user can do git push forcefully.
6. Allow user to setup branches or profiles like master and office and keep the selected profile / branch in Sync Global Settings and download/ upload to that branch.
7. When user is switched to Gist, it should not upload the Git folder there.
8. Support Github and Gitlab Enterprise versions

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[shanalikhan]

This feature is funded, anyone is welcome to work and get the money 😄

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[shanalikhan]

@mortezaPRK
any update on this ? i can assist you if need any help

[mortezaPRK]

Thanks. I already do about 80% of the work. There are some bugs. It should be done by the end of next week :) Sent from ProtonMail mobile

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[shanalikhan]

Thats great, make sure you write the test cases.
We need to decouple modules in order to implement repo sync rather then writing complete other logic for it.

It would be great you have send me PR with work in progress so i can see and evaluate it mean while you are doing else once all work is completed it would be difficult to change at end if we found any.

[mortezaPRK]

Sure, I'll send a PR tomorrow. Sent from ProtonMail mobile

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[shanalikhan]

I already do about 80% of the work

@mortezaPRK its been almost a month. It would be great if you can send work in progress PR so i can evaluate at least.

[shanalikhan]

If i don't get the PR in a week. I will have to assign the paid issue to someone else.

[OrangeDrangon]

I might be interested to looking into this

[shanalikhan]

I might be interested to looking into this

@OrangeDrangon
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[wasikuss]

Is someone working on it? I can finish first version tomorrow. I have support for detection of gist vs repo url. For now only github, but gitlab API is not so hard to integrate.

[shanalikhan]

@wasikuss no you can start working on it.

I can finish first version tomorrow. I have support for detection of gist vs repo url

How do you intend to do it, Have a look on steps mentioned in first post - We need to just create git init and stage entire user folder.

[wasikuss]

git init isn't required. Both Github and Gitlab APIs allows to publish commits with files directly.

[smbkr]

We would want to git init locally at least though, right? This would allow rolling back the user config to a specific commit, which is one of the main advantages of putting the config in a repo instead of a gist.

[shanalikhan]

The main goal for repository is to create Git Repo, not tightly coupled with github.
Once the repo with git init or creating locally will provide user to connect with any git client.

If you look on the steps, it main focus to create git repository and do pull / push to that repo and then provide some interface options to connect to github.

[wasikuss]

So sync with local repo only wraps credentials and git push/pull for local repository allowing upload/download sittings but reverting will be done manually?

@shanalikhan ok, using any client/server convince me to use local repo. but I see upload/download actions acts only as alias for regular git commands and it's only for convenience ( to not enter manually to local repo )?

[wasikuss]

I saw similar behavior while using gists (manual change + download).

[shanalikhan]

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[knyhle]

If nobody’s working on this, I’ll start on it when I get home in a few hours.

[benkoska]

Is this still relevant. I can do this!

[shanalikhan]

Is this still relevant. I can do this!

@DeveloperBen

To implement this feature, we need to Refactor the complete extension. @arnohovhannisyan and other users have attempted the refactoring thing before.

You can use this PR for reference.
#937

[vladfrangu]

Hi! I used this plugin previously, and I wondered if you still need help with this, or if someone is working on it already! I'd love helping out! 😄

[shanalikhan]

OPEN FOR PR!

[AndersHogqvist]

This feature would be awesome. Our development environment doesn't have any Internet connection and we have a self-hosted BitBucket server without any snippet add-on.

[Diogo-Rossi]

I've made a trick workaround to get this, using a python script to sync extensions
This workaround uses no extension at all, but requires python, git and code (vscode cli)
It also may require the bash shell or the powershell as default terminal. I'm sharing if someone wants to use it, in this gist

[kiprasmel]

FWIW, your gist is a fully-fledged repository.
You can clone it from the URL, e.g.

git clone https://gist.github.com/kiprasmel/de9160a0602463fb752f2d84d7aa4fd8

and from here, you can do all your standard git stuff - amend, reset, force push, etc.

e.g. if i sometimes override between syncs, i cd into the repo, pull, reset, and undo the deletions, then commit & push to the gist, and then sync the gist back into vscode. cheers.