Nova^™

My tools for working with GitHub from Nova.

Currently only one command: Open on GitHub.

Open on GitHub

Open the current file (or selected line range) on GitHub.

There are a bunch of these, but none seem to work for me, often because they require the current branch to be tracking a remote, when I ~always want to open a file on the 'origin' repo, so that's what this does. None of the other extensions seem to be maintained, either, so I can't fix them myself.

Assumptions:

• Consistent remote naming (i.e. origin, the default or upstream, etc.).
• The latest ref on the current branch is usually available on origin (e.g. in a PR or on a branch)

Uses the gh command-line tool to check if the latest commit is available on origin. If it's not, it will open on HEAD instead.

The idea here is to always browse somewhere, rather than refusing to do anything if it can't guess where to browse, which is what other GitHub extensions seem to choose.

TODO

• use tracking branch, if defined
• make requests directly to the GitHub API to check for refs instead of relying on gh (I chose gh because I use it and it avoid)
• error handling

Usage

Defines the command "Open on GitHub" command, which opens the current file (and selected line range) on GitHub. No default key-bindings, but I use cmd-option-G.

Version 1.0

Initial release

MIT License

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