Project manager with file sync (chrome offline / desktop app)

[norman784]

Checking your repos see that you have git-browser and my question here is (since yesterday chrome launch there offline / desktop apps) you think there can be a way that a chrome app use this to work as I want, thats basically is a project manager that runs on the browser and sync your files via git, a example (but not really what I want to accomplish, but can compare with it) can be dropbox, or services that sync files between computers / accounts and the cloud. The only thing that I'm not sure are the sync part the other things like auth and all those its a pancake. The app flow will be something like this

• List projects
• Select project
• Clone it (git clone) and save locally in the user selected folder
• Edit there files
• Update (git push, if needed a rebase or similar, need to think how to manage this because the target users are not smart, an app for dummies xD)

Regards

[creationix]

Yes it's possible, but it still a lot of work from where we are today.

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:22 PM, norman784 [email protected] wrote:

Checking your repos see that you have git-browserhttps://github.com/creationix/git-browserand my question here is (since yesterday chrome launch there offline /
desktop apps) you think there can be a way that a chrome app use this to
work as I want, thats basically is a project manager that runs on the
browser and sync your files via git, a example (but not really what I want
to accomplish, but can compare with it) can be dropbox, or services that
sync files between computers / accounts and the cloud. The only thing that
I'm not sure are the sync part the other things like auth and all those its
a pancake. The app flow will be something like this

• List projects
• Select project
• Clone it (git clone) and save locally in the user selected folder
• Edit there files
• Update (git push, if needed a rebase or similar, need to think how
  to manage this because the target users are not smart, an app for dummies
  xD)

Regards

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[norman784]

What would be posible at this stage js-git?

[creationix]

Right now, we have clone, and low-level operations on the local git repo. There is no working directory and no way to push changes back to a remote server. https://tedit.creationix.com/ and http://git-browser.creationix.com/ are examples of what can be done now.

[norman784]

And this limitation respond to the lack of support of the js api to local files? is any other progress or feature needed to the project accomplish this goal? Because in other cases we can use nodejs (but I want to avoid it if is possible).

If you need something help with anything just tell me and I would try to help.

[creationix]

A chrome app will have all abilities once js-git is done. It has pretty good network and persistence primitives so that's no a problem like is it in browser apps.

The main issue is js-git is not done. Chrome apps can access the filesystem as of chrome 31, they have indexeddb and the chrome.storage apis. They have direct TCP and UDP client and server access as well.

[norman784]

Great, then I can work on my app relaxed with this lib, so when its available I will be able to implement it! Thanks

[kzahel]

I'm looking forward to progress toward this goal. I see a number of interesting projects that could be based on this ability.