Support git integration in the community edition

[synergiator]

Following the feature matrix, I have discovered that currently, there is no Git integration support in the community edition.

If I have read the matrix properly, it's not possible even in the Pro edition - only in the cloud version.

I've also found an old request which has been suggested for reopening as a new issue.

Done. :-)

[synergiator]

Clarification: does the "raw git access" work anyway with community edition or not?
https://www.scivision.dev/overleaf-with-github/

[jdleesmiller]

does the "raw git access" work anyway with community edition or not?

Not at this time, unfortunately. It only works with the cloud edition.

[synergiator]

@jdleesmiller thx

[MengXiangxi]

does the "raw git access" work anyway with community edition or not?

Not at this time, unfortunately. It only works with the cloud edition.

Thanks for answering, and I really wonder if it is something like a commercial strategy to keep it an advanced feature, or there is a technical limitation from using git in self-hosted versions?

[jdleesmiller]

there is a technical limitation

There are indeed technical limitations. The short version is that https://github.com/overleaf/writelatex-git-bridge, while open source, relies on a different project history service than the one used in Overleaf v2 (namely the one from Overleaf v1, pre-integration with ShareLaTeX). We're running both history services in the SaaS edition with a connector between them, but doing that in CE would add a lot of complexity. We are working toward a better solution.

[Alex-Muirhead]

@jdleesmiller Would this better git-bridge solution help solve issue #365? And is there any way we can contribute to finding / implementing this solution? It seems a lot of my personal issues with Overleaf would be solved with more git capabilities.

[eeriksp]

Yes, Git integration would indeed be very helpful.
To make the issue less complicated, would there be a way of setting up Git integration on the server side without the user interface?
For instance so that Overleaf just places the files in some directory and then one can configure Git inside this directory.

[gunwald]

To make the issue less complicated, would there be a way of setting up Git integration on the server side without the user interface?
Would be a big step because it would enable us to also work offline. I think a UI is would not be that important here.

[axkibe]

I hacked together a bridge to be used as workaround on CE/Pro Servers https://gitlab.com/axkibe/olgitbridge

It uses the web API*, thus it's way slower and also cruder than the v1 java bridge also it doesn't translate the git changes to real-time changes; it uploads any changed file. But it gets the job done as far as I can tell.

'* After studying the code a bit, that seemed to be the layer of least complexity to insert to, albeit handling the cookies and the one needed socket.io call to get the folder IDs proofed a bit more complicated than I expected.

[youkaichao]

2022 now, any new progress?

[goerz]

Any updates on this?

[ivanperez-keera]

Any updates on this? We have a local installation of overleaf. We can pay for the plugin as a premium feature, but we really would like to have this feature.