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GitHub Code Owners

GitHub Code Owners

Christopher Dignam

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Quickly see GitHub Code Owners for the current file. Add syntax highlighting for CODEOWNERS files.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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A VS Code extension to display the GitHub Code Owners for the current file, as defined in the CODEOWNERS file.

Features

Status bar

Shows the first code owner. Click to see matching line in CODEOWNERS file.

no code owners one user code owner a team code owner and other

Language support

Link usernames to GitHub

click to open username in GitHub

Link usernames to Slack

click to open username in GitHub

Define a Slack mapping in your VSCode settings (github-code-owners.team-mapping.slack) to enable this feature.

Auto complete

auto complete of paths and usernames

Syntax highlighting

syntax highlighting

Formatting

Enable formatting by setting github-code-owners.format.enabled to true.

auto complete of paths and usernames

Command

Open matching line in CODEOWNERS file with the GitHub Code Owners: Show owners of current file command.

code owners command

Install

From online marketplace

Open the online marketplace listing for GitHub Code Owners and click "Install". Follow the prompts to open VSCode and install GitHub Code Owners.

From VSCode

In VSCode, type CMD+P and enter ext install chdsbd.github-code-owners. Or search for and install chdsbd.github-code-owners via the extensions tab.

From Github release

Download the extension package from the latest Github release and run code --install-extension github-code-owners-*.vsix

From source

With vsce installed from NPM (yarn global add vsce), clone this repo and run vsce package. Install the resulting package with code --install-extension github-code-owners-*.vsix

Related extensions

  • CODEOWNERS by Jason Nutter
  • vs-codeowners by softprops
  • CodeOwners by HCoban
  • CODEOWNERS Linter by Filipe Constantinov Menezes
  • Codeowners Extended by Noah Manneschmidt

Fork

This repository is forked from jasonnutter/vscode-codeowners, with UI changes and more correct CODEOWNERS compliance via @snyk/github-codeowners.

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