I've been using this for a while. Very, very, very handy for
- Just exploring some code.
- Quickly pull up as reference code w/ decent navigation without having to checkout locally or navigate forward/back in the source tree in GitHub.
- When reviewing PRs and wanting to check out some surrounding code that is not part of the actual PR.
- If you want to quickly commit something really small and trivial in master/a branch/a PR without having to do the whole stash/checkout/pull/change/commit/push rigmarole (like if you're in the middle of doing something else).
Things that are very annoying:
- Some of the most used VSCode hotkeys are browser hotkeys, like Ctrl+T, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+Shift+P etc. The functions aren't even rebound to anything else, they're just not available via hotkeys.
- Some extensions are not available, especially ones that (partially) may rely on some kind of local binary. I understand that, but that also sometimes rules out extensions that could partially work. Example: none of the Zig extensions work because they reference tooling binaries, so I can't even get syntax highlighting of Zig code. You could argue that's an extension packaging issue, however. That's fair.
- The PR reviewing UI needs a lot of work, because right now it's not as good as the normal GitHub UI, so currently, for larger PRs, I need to have both UIs open.
I hope in the future you can save a gist or something with custom settings/hotkeys/extensions to load. I'm sure they're working on something like that.
Update: Oh, there actually is some form of settings sync. Have to check that out.
- Just exploring some code.
- Quickly pull up as reference code w/ decent navigation without having to checkout locally or navigate forward/back in the source tree in GitHub.
- When reviewing PRs and wanting to check out some surrounding code that is not part of the actual PR.
- If you want to quickly commit something really small and trivial in master/a branch/a PR without having to do the whole stash/checkout/pull/change/commit/push rigmarole (like if you're in the middle of doing something else).
Things that are very annoying:
- Some of the most used VSCode hotkeys are browser hotkeys, like Ctrl+T, Ctrl+P, Ctrl+Shift+P etc. The functions aren't even rebound to anything else, they're just not available via hotkeys.
- Some extensions are not available, especially ones that (partially) may rely on some kind of local binary. I understand that, but that also sometimes rules out extensions that could partially work. Example: none of the Zig extensions work because they reference tooling binaries, so I can't even get syntax highlighting of Zig code. You could argue that's an extension packaging issue, however. That's fair.
- The PR reviewing UI needs a lot of work, because right now it's not as good as the normal GitHub UI, so currently, for larger PRs, I need to have both UIs open.
I hope in the future you can save a gist or something with custom settings/hotkeys/extensions to load. I'm sure they're working on something like that.
Update: Oh, there actually is some form of settings sync. Have to check that out.