This is a simple Visual Studio extension that adds two entries, "Browse in remote repository" and "Copy URL of remote repository version", to the context menu when right clicking a file in solution Explorer, or in the code editor for open files, provided that the solution lives in a Git repository with a configured remote. This is useful when you are coding collaboratively and want to point a specific piece of code to another person.
The format of the generated URL is <remote base URL>/blob/<branch name>/<file path and name>. When clicking in the code editor, #L<line number> is added as well; and if the command is invoked over a multiline selection, -L<end line number> is added to that. This format is compatible with GitHub and GitLab.
Note: You need Visual Studio 2017 to open the solution.
git.exelocation must be in the PATH variable.- The repository must have a configured remote, or the base URL must have been configured manually (see below).
- Obvious, but: the "Browse in remote repository" requires a web browser to be installed.
- Also should be obvious but easy to overlook: for "Browse in remote repository", if the remote repository is private you must have been granted access to it, and you must have a session open in the browser that the command will open (see below).
By default the base URL for the remote repository will be obtained by executing git config --get remote.origin.url. If the base URL is SSH based (it starts with git@) it will be automatically converted to the HTTPS equivalent.
For the cases where this does not work as expected (the schema for the remote URL is not http[s]:// or git@, or there is actually no remote configured for the local repository, for example), it is possible to manually set the base url by executing the following in the local repository: git config Konamiman.BrowseInRemoteGitRepo.BaseUrl <base URL>.
If the supplied value includes the token {0}, it will be replaced with the last part of the local repository directory name (so xyz for c:\abc\def\xyz). This may be useful if you have all your projects under the same account of the same provider and want to set a global value for the setting (add --global when creating the setting for this).
The default action of the "Browse in remote repository" command is to open the full remote URL of the file in the default browser. If you want a different behavior (such as using a different browser or adding extra command line options) you can do so by executing git config Konamiman.BrowseInRemoteGitRepo.BrowseCommandTemplate <command template>, you must add a {0} token to the template that will be replaced with the remote URL of the file. Again, add --global if necessary.
For example, if you want the command to always open Firefox, run the following: git config --global Konamiman.BrowseInRemoteGitRepo.BrowseCommandTemplate "\"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe\" {0}"
This is my first Visual Studio extension, so please forgive all the rough edges. Suggestions/Pull Requests are more than welcome.
By the way, I am this guy and my kids are shoe slayers.