Support for all Git repositories

Question

Support for all Git repositories

Opened this issue 10 years ago · 4 comments

yannisgu commented 10 years ago

Would be cool if all kind of git repositories would be supported and not only GitHub

Answer 1 · 2015-01-16T16:50:39.000Z

CodePlex and Bitbucket come to mind. Anything that uses git should be relatively easy to incorporate.

Did you have any others in mind?

Answer 2 · 2015-01-16T18:28:31.000Z

SourceBrowser.SolutionRetriever.GitHubSolutionRetriever uses LibGit2Sharp library and it will work with any git provider. The class should be renamed to GitSolutionRetriever when we support other git sources.

SourceBrowser.SolutionRetriever.GitHubInformationRetriever uses the Octokit library and it will work only with GitHub. Other git sources will require their own retrievers. The retrievers are not necessary for SourceBrowser to work, but we'd rather have them for good user experience. The retriever currently fetches user's avatar, website and full name.

Answer 3 · 2015-01-20T07:09:31.000Z

The other issue is going to be dealing with name conflicts on the various websites.

Answer 4 · 2015-01-20T16:48:11.000Z

Since there could be two different users on different platforms both having the same name, we could prefix the user's folder name with the name of the source (github or bitbucket) and a character which is invalid on these sources (a space, or shift+[0-9]).

For example, SB_Files/github CodeConnect/SourceBrowser/