Vscode-gitlens: How to get Gitlens to view workspace hosted by SSHFS?
I have a server I remotely connect to using SSHFS for a project I'm doing that makes use of the FileSystemProvider API to do ssh:// paths. How do I get Gitlens to show this workspace?
WSLUser
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Are you using a vscode extension to support ssh files?
eamodio
on 4 Jan 2019
Yes the extension is actually called SSHFS, not to be confused with the FUSE one. Link to project: https://github.com/SchoofsKelvin/vscode-sshfs
I'm running on Win 7 but remote into a Fedora Server that's used among other purposes for my dev work before getting pushed to BitBucket.
WSLUser
on 4 Jan 2019
Does the built-in git support in vscode work with that setup?
eamodio
on 4 Jan 2019
I'm not sure. I haven't been successful in getting it to read the path. I'm unable to create a Samba share (read: no permission to do so) so I'm totally reliant on the extension to directly manipulate from Windows.
WSLUser
on 4 Jan 2019
Yeah, unfortunately I don't think it can work, since both the built-in vscode git and GitLens shell out to git itself to do all of the work. So the git process would need to be able to have access to the repo/fs itself.
eamodio
on 4 Jan 2019
ok, I'll give the vs code folks a whirl with it then. Seems silly they enable the feature to create remote workspaces via ssh but then not be able to use git with it.
WSLUser
on 4 Jan 2019
Closing as this currently isn't possible given the current level of file system support
eamodio
on 8 Jan 2019
Hey @WSLUser, did you ever get to the bottom of this?
havardl
on 21 Mar 2019
I had filed an issue with VS Code https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/66046 but I also found https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/68808 which now has the on-deck tag on it. Probably because the issue writer provided a bit more details except in that case it was filed for the use case of debugging (which is why I requested VS Code itself tackle the issue instead of extension authors.) Technically this extension just needs to take a look at the filesystemprovider API and implement the necessary support for ssh:// paths but as indicated above, git is not the only thing affected.
WSLUser
on 21 Mar 2019
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I had filed an issue with VS Code https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/66046 but I also found https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/68808 which now has the on-deck tag on it. Probably because the issue writer provided a bit more details except in that case it was filed for the use case of debugging (which is why I requested VS Code itself tackle the issue instead of extension authors.) Technically this extension just needs to take a look at the filesystemprovider API and implement the necessary support for ssh:// paths but as indicated above, git is not the only thing affected.