Vscode: Git: Support git subtree

[awidjaja]

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.19.0-insider (89b158e11cb1c3fe94a3876222478ed2d0549fc8, 2017-11-24T05:14:03.606Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.15063
• Extensions:

Extension|Author (truncated)|Version
---|---|---
markdown-mermaid|bie|0.1.1
team|ms-|1.122.0
debugger-for-chrome|msj|3.5.0

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Steps to Reproduce:

1. Ctrl-shift-P
2. type "Git:"

Reproduces without extensions: Yes

Git git subtree commands is currently missing in the git command list and wasn't included in the git sync button.

Subtree is great for maintaining a monorepo for large projects where there is a single source of truth for all the code.

Currently this issue impacts developers experience as it is tedious to do manual sync of all the changes in the subtree with the original git repo of the project for the subtree.

Proposal:

1. Add all the git subtree command (add, push, pull)

[awidjaja]

1. Additionally, add configuration option to automatically sync the subtree repo together, everytime the main repo is synced.

[rmunn]

The git-subrepo project is even better than git subtree. I'd love to see support for both of them added to VSCode's git extension.

[awidjaja]

git-repo is good and hopefully there will be a VSCode extension written.

git subtree is a standard git command. It is more appropriate to include the git subtree command as core vscode functionality.

[rmunn]

Ah, I thought that git subtree was a third-party tool like git-subrepo. I agree that there's a distinction to be drawn, and the man git functionality should include things that are standard parts of Git, whereas things that come from external tools should be optional. Though that's not, per se, an argument for excluding them: if there were a large install base for git-subrepo, to the point where it became considered a "standard" way of using Git, then it would make sense to include it in the core VSCode functionalty, as an optional component (so that the core Git plugin would still work on a system without git-subrepo).

[joeto0]

+1

[awidjaja]

is git team going to enable git subtree feature?

[ffMathy]

What's the status on this?

[PerfectionVR]

Is there any chance that we could get an update on this one?

[Amantel]

Up for this feature.
@joaomoreno any updates? :)

[joaomoreno]

No updates!

[vscodebot[bot]]

This feature request is now a candidate for our backlog. The community has 60 days to upvote the issue. If it receives 20 upvotes we will move it to our backlog. If not, we will close it. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!

[ffMathy]

How do we upvote? Just give the comment a thumbs up?

[sgrimee]

How do we upvote? Just give the comment a thumbs up?

I do not know the correct answer to this but I had the same question, I ended up upvoting the first post in this issue (with a thumbs-up from the emoticon menu at the top right). It has 11 thumbs up now, let's hope we can pass 20 soon.

[rmunn]

@ffMathy - You give the first post a thumbs-up; that's the one the bot will be looking at. The four upvotes on the bot's comment won't be looked at at all.

It's up to 19 votes now (including mine) as I write this, so a twentieth thumbs-up on the first post will be enough to get it across the line.

[vscodebot[bot]]

:slightly_smiling_face: This feature request received a sufficient number of community upvotes and we moved it to our backlog. To learn more about how we handle feature requests, please see our documentation.

Happy Coding!