Select branch

[javierlinked]

Would be good to select a branch.

[cyclotruc]

This is partly possible already using an url like:
gitingest.com/name/repo/tree/branch_name

But there's currently a bug with branches that contain a / in the name

Did you mean like an UI thing to select from there?

[javierlinked]

Correct, I don't see a way to set a branch from a remote repo unless I clone it and use the pip locally.

It'd be good to have an optional set to choose a branch.

[cyclotruc]

Have you tried this approach?

[javierlinked]

Hi @cyclotruc, I've just tried. Both are true. It does work with the with the full github branch url. And it does also fail when there's a / in the name, which is the case of most conventional commits.

If I find some time I'd try to prepare a PR to help you in this. This project is really useful. Congrats and thanks.

[cyclotruc]

@javierlinked Thank you, this would be very much appreciated.

The implementation I was thinking about:

• Since in clone.py there's a function to check if a repo exists using a curl request (then looking if there's a 404)
• We could probbably use that same approach to test multiple "candidate" urls at once (leveragind Asyncio for concurrency)

This shouldn't take too much extra time but could allow us to do much more complex pattern matching (like make the url trick work for some other common git provider)

Happy to answer all your questions if you have any

[cyclotruc]

#108

[cyclotruc]

Closing this since the merge of #131 should have fixed this behavior