improvement to keep the configuration file in a separated user repo

[crguezl]

Improvement to keep the configuration file in a separated user repo

The current code in file config.ts is to check if the file exist and otherwise to create a minimal file from the template:

export let config: configType;
if (!fs.existsSync(configPath)) {
  console.log("No config file detected");
  console.log("Creating new config...");
  fs.copyFileSync(__dirname + "/../utils/config.template.json", configPath, fs.constants.COPYFILE_EXCL);
}

Alternative to explore:

1. if (!fs.existsSync(configPath)) {
   1. try to see if there is a repo github-user/gh-edu-profile in GitHub and if so
   2. get the config file config.json from there by cloning the repo,
   3. make a symbolic link to the config file
2. otherwise, if there is no gh-edu-profile repo at GH
   1. make a folder gh-edu-profile in the extension folder
   2. copy the minimal template to gh-edu-profile
   3. make a symbolic link to the just created config file
   4. create the github repo github-user/gh-edu-profile and push the config file

It is a lot of work

[GGCristo]

b8aa608

• Update config file in remote using update command
  • Don't update installed commands because that is local information
• Create fetch in update or reset command to fetch information
• Remove tmp dir on error