Directly open github repo through repo link

[JalinWang]

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?

[code-asher]

This would be cool. I don't think we'd need to patch anything to get it working. Maybe if the ?folder parameter is something like git://github.com/cdr/code-server URL we clone before starting VS Code. We need to fix #1294 first though.

[JalinWang]

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]

Hmm, it might make sense to do this right after the call to `getFirstValidPath`. You can do the clone then change `startPath` to the directory of the clone.

[dougnukem]

Sail by coder supports this use case with the browser extension:

• https://github.com/cdr/sail
• https://sail.dev/docs/browser-extension/

[kylecarbs]

Closing for now.

We don't have immediate plans for this within code-server.