Support forge

[dakra]

Would be nice if I could store a link to a PR/issue/comment/etc.

[tarsius]

I pushed a quick draft to the forge branch, but it will likely be a while until I get back to that.

[tarsius]

There are a few things to be considered:

1. I cannot add anything like this to orgit.el because then that would start depending on forge. I could add either orgit-forge.el here or forge-orgit.el to forge though.
2. I don't really want to do that because now that forge has been released orgit should start using some of the information that forge can automatically determine based on its own configuration instead of requiring duplication in orgit-export-alist.
3. There's also magit-bookmark.el, which also does links, but differently with different hardcoded defaults.
4. Once I have implemented git-handler.el linking to blobs will be trivial and not require any special support. Regular file links will do.
5. All this should be restructured, but I don't know how exactly yet. Merge everything into Magit? Except Forge of course. But how about the low-level stuff that makes it unnecessary to set things explicitly? Can some of that be moved to Magit too, without that needing access to forge APIs?
6. ...

This will be a lot of work and take a long time. I don't want to implement any intermediate versions that I am already fairly certain will go away eventually. So I have decided not to add any support for forge buffers to orgit.

[tarsius]

I have published the orgit-forge package.

Maybe I will do the things I mentioned above eventually as well, but now I am even less in a hurry. Also I do not intend to extend orgit-forge itself. But I do find that one feature that it does provide useful so I'll let you use that too. 😜

[ivanhjc]

I'm looking for a link method to magit blobs and so far the closest I can get is using orgit-rev, e.g.

 [[orgit-rev:d:/projects/jekyll/::bcaf878b65d6349da9e53ad9243796e72797c0db][Jekyll (rev bcaf878b6)]]

But what I want is to link to a file at a certain commit (called a blob as I understand) at a certain line or string. Is this now supported? I see you said

4. Once I have implemented git-handler.el linking to blobs will be trivial and not require any special support. Regular file links will do.

But I couldn't find where this git-handler is.

[kyleam]

But I couldn't find where this git-handler is.

See magit/magit#2958

[ivanhjc]

@kyleam So this hasn't been implemented right?

[tarsius]

Right, and I still plan to implement it.