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Suggestion: PSProvider for working with Git #47
Description
Default PSProviders in PowerShell are the followings:
> Get-PSProvider
Name Capabilities Drives
---- ------------ ------
Registry ShouldProcess, Transactions {HKLM, HKCU}
Alias ShouldProcess {Alias}
Environment ShouldProcess {Env}
FileSystem Filter, ShouldProcess, Credentials {C, D, E, F...}
Function ShouldProcess {Function}
Variable ShouldProcess {Variable}I thought it would make sense to have one for working with Git repositories, so that you can do, for example:
Get-ChildItem Git:MyRepo\src\*
and other Git operations with standard PS cmdlets.
Activity
Jaykul commentedon Jun 12, 2015
Can you give some more examples of git actions which you can imagine mapping to a provider?
For instance, how would you imagine handling the core 6:
clone
status
add
commit
push
pull
In my head, I immediately thought
git clonewould map toNew-PSDrive... but that already clashes with your example 😉jrich523 commentedon Jun 12, 2015
i had considered this too (once i saw add-item remove-item) but after giving it some thought i realized it wouldnt really work out too well in the end
omidkrad commentedon Jun 12, 2015
I don't think there is an intuitive way to do the main operations. Now that I think more about it I think a PSProvider would be better suited for managing the Git repositories on your computer, rather than Git operations themselves. For example the
Git:drive can be your central point for registering and accessing Git repositories on your computer, or on your GitHub account. I think it can work well with Git cmdlets. For example I can imagine the following scenario:Difference between using the repository from file system vs Git: drive is that when querying files in the Git: drive you will get get-specific properties, such as
SHA,LastModifiedBy,LastCommitDate,History,Lines,IsIgnored,RemotePath, etc.Jaykul commentedon Jun 12, 2015
Oh, well in that case, you'll be happy to hear that you don't need a git drive to get stuff like that when you query files ... we can detect you're in a git folder and give you stuff like that on your
Get-ChildItemoutput automatically, without needing to register them.jrich523 commentedon Jun 12, 2015
yeah, if you look there is a GCI Proxy branch (currently a PR) that shows the change/stage state
omidkrad commentedon Jun 12, 2015
That's great to know. Thank you guys.