the difference between GistPad's 'Repository Management' and Github's Remote Repositorie

[WXZhao7]

@lostintangent
GistPad is very useful and I realy like it. 💘
But recently I find the offical extention Remote Repositories. I think Remote Repositories can replace the Repository Management function in the future. Will the Repository Management function still be retained ❓

[lostintangent]

Hey! I built the repository management experience quite a while ago, before the Remote Repositories extension existed. That said, even now that Remote Repositories is released, there are a couple reasons why I'm planning to continue maintaining repo management in GistPad (at least for myself 😄):

1. GistPad is optimized for supporting "companion" repos, that can be always available, regardless what workspace you have open. I use GitHub repos for docs, wikis, etc. and I prefer having access to those files at any time, without needing to launch a new VS Code instance to browse/edit them. GistPad also supports commit/push on save, as opposed to requiring a separate commit gesture. So GistPad and Remote Repositories are taking a slightly different approach here.

2. GistPad adds a handful of productivity enhancements on top of the repo, to support scenarios such as Roam-like wikis, and integration with CodeSwing. Remote Repositories is generally focused on providing a local-like experience for GitHub repos, whereas GistPad is interested in providing interesting abstractions on top of repos. This is obviously a big ambiguous and squishy, but I view GistPad as being an "experimental" experience so that I can explore ways to allow using GitHub (repos or gists) as a universal developer storage

Over time, if the gap between GistPad and Remote Repositories closes, then I'd definitely reconsider removing the repo management from GistPad. GistPad is definitely focused on gist management, but there are also numerous people that are using GistPad for managing their notes/journals/wikis/docs, which are more appropriately stored in repos.

[WXZhao7]

Thanks for your response:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
I never thought about it this way, maybe it's because I didn't finish reading the long README.:flushed:
After rereading the README:eye:, I find Repository Management is still necessary:smiley:.