Is there any way to apply bulk edits to repository paths?

[danielrosehill]

I recently did some organisation of my local storage and created subfolders within /home/git to organise my repositories a little better.

Unfortunately (as I should have thought beforehand) this broke the paths in the config file that the extension relies upon to hold the shortcuts.

But I would like to be able to move the repos as required...

Is there any way to allow for this possibility ? Maybe symlinks or something like that?

TY

[alefragnani]

Hi @danielrosehill ,

The extension does not have anything specifically to deal with this kind of reorganization, but depending on the kind of project you are working, you may have different alternatives.

Favorite Projects

They are stored (today) in a JSON file, which you can easily open using the Project Manager: Edit Projects command. While opened, you may update the paths freely, using multi-cursor editing to speed up the process, and once you save the file, the projects are automatically updated.

Autodetected projects

Once you update the projectManager.git.baseFolders setting, you can simply run the Project Manager: Refresh Git Projects, and the project list will be automatically updated as well.

About symlinks, the extension does support. You just have to enable the projectManager.supportSymlinksOnBaseFolders setting. I’m not a fan of symlinks, but I suppose it would fit future reorganizations as well.

Hope this helps