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gitshare

Kaan Aydogan

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An extension that allows you to share your coding activity to your GitHub custom status
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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gitshare

Visual Studio Code extension which automatically updates your GitHub status with what you're coding.

Demo

Demo

Configuration

Token Generation

  • Navigate to GitHub Profile Settings -> Developer Settings -> Personal access tokens
  • Generate a personal access token with the user scope.
  • Copy the token to your clipboard, and optionally give it a name reminding you of its purpose.

Settings

  • Navigate to Visual Studio Settings -> Extensions -> GitShare
  • Paste your personal access token in the token field.
  • You may optionally customize the plugin behavior by updating the other configuration values.

Configuration Overview

{
    "gitshare.token": "" //Your GitHub personal access token
    "gitshare.emoji": ":computer:" //GitHub emoji to use in status
    "gitshare.branding": true //Show credit text at the end of status (if space permits).
    "gitshare.showfile": true //Show the current file you are editing (if space permits).
}

Usage

After configuration, to toggle status sharing on and off run the toggle command.

  • Open the command pallete (Ctrl+Shift+P)
  • Click on "GitShare: Toggle GitHub Status Sharing"

Install

  1. Search the VSCode Extension Marketplace for "gitshare" and install.
    or
  2. Launch Visual Studio Code and Quick Open (Ctrl + P), and paste the following command:
ext install gitshare

Contribute

  • To report a bug, suggest a feature, or ask a question: open an issue.
  • To contribute:
    • Fork this repository and clone it locally.
    • Create and change to a new branch. git checkout -b myfeature
    • Run yarn install from the project folder and open/edit it in VSCode.
    • Open a pull request.

License

Source code is licensed under the MIT License.

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