create simple app for simply running "git clone" to local filesystem in chromeos

[kzahel]

If I click on an anchor with such a url (git: uri scheme) it would be really great if there were a chrome app that would then pop up and ask me where I want to clone it to. The end result should be a local directory is populated with the project in the exact same fashion as if you were to run "git clone" in the terminal. It seems like it would be a great use of this library. Do you think it would be fairly easy to implement?

[creationix]

What a great idea! Can a chrome app register an url handler and do arbitrary action based on it? I thought the protocol handlers could only return a url.

As far as cloning, most the needed code is there already.

[kzahel]

There's a slightly less than ideal way to register protocol handlers. You need to do it on a website. There's no way yet for an app to register the protocol handler for itself (though I can see this coming in a future chrome version)

https://github.com/JSTorrent/jstorrent.github.io/blob/master/js/index.js#L29

But when the app is installed, it could give a notification with instructions for how to install it. (like https://plus.google.com/105605890151842939367/posts/VDaYzQoFDRW)

Once navigator.registerProtocolHandler has the url, you can use chrome.runtime.sendMessage to give the URL to the app (https://github.com/JSTorrent/jstorrent.github.io/blob/master/share/share.js#L129)

[kzahel]

Hmm after doing a little searching I found out there may be a small improvement to be made in this process. Instead of using chrome.runtime.sendMessage it looks like this can bypass that step:
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/manifest/url_handlers

[creationix]

Also keep in mind that chrome apps can create http servers using
chrome.sockets and a lot of js.
On Oct 31, 2014 7:34 PM, "Kyle Graehl" [email protected] wrote:

Hmm after doing a little searching I found out there may be a small
improvement to be made in this process. Instead of using
chrome.runtime.sendMessage it looks like this can bypass that step:
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/manifest/url_handlers

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