Please publish on Open VSX Repository

[davemecha]

Please make Git Assistant available via the Open VSX Repository. (https://open-vsx.org/) That's an alternative marketplace for VSCode Extensions for free VSCode compatible editors like Theia IDE or projects like Gitpod.io that run VSCode in the cloud but have no access to the official Microsoft marketplace for VSCode extensions.

[ivanhofer]

Hi @davemecha I will take a look at this repository. Meanwhile you could download the extension as .zip file and install it in your editor: https://github.com/ivanhofer/git-assistant/releases

[davemecha]

@ivanhofer nice, thanks for checking this out.

Unfortunately it is not possible to install the extension easily from source. It's easier to manually download it from the official VScode Marketplace. The problem is, that it's (AFAIK) not possible to automate this, what's generally the point in cloud coding environments like Gitpod.

Maybe you could add a ready built .vsix file to your releases. Then it's possible to add the extension automatically to a Gitpod environment (via .gitpod.yml) in the same way as e.g. the google cloud platform extension, that's also still missing in the open-vsx repository.

vscode:
  extensions:
    - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-code-vscode/releases/download/v1.12.0/cloudcode-1.12.0.vsix

[ivanhofer]

@davemecha you should be able to download the latest version from here:
https://github.com/ivanhofer/git-assistant/suites/3275151981/artifacts/76304033