Code block observes GitHub repo

[sugihjamin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Spec and code get out of synch.

Describe the solution you'd like When code on main branch of a GitHub repo is updated, corresponding code in spec automatically updates. This would mean beyond simply linking to GitHub code as is done in Trello card, but to track commit/push history to link to the correct code as it moves around after updates.

Describe alternatives you've considered Manual updates.

Additional context I think one of the faculty candidate from UCBerkeley had a similar feature built into the equivalent of an IDE.

[seshrs]

If the repo hosting the code is public, this might actually be possible! I’ll explore this further.

Thanks for all the feature requests and feedback btw :)

[seshrs]

Though I'm not sure how we would be able to track code if line numbers / file names move around.

Do you have a link / video to an example demonstration of the feature in some other context?

[sugihjamin]

I was referring to Andrew Head et al.'s paper, "Composing Flexibly-Organized Step-by-Step Tutorials from Linked Source Code, Snippets, and Outputs," SIGCHI 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376798. tutorial-authoring.pdf

[sugihjamin]

Though I'm not sure how we would be able to track code if line numbers / file names move around.

Do you have a link / video to an example demonstration of the feature in some other context?

Is it possible to inspect GitHub's commit and push and merge history programmatically?